It’s very important that you prepare for your presentation. Rehearsing has several benefits. First, during your rehearsal you can save timings that can be used to advance your slides automatically or record a narration. Even if you don’t use those timings to navigate your presentation, they help you anticipate whether your presentation will go under or over the allotted time. In addition, rehearsing helps you spot problems in running your presentation, such as animations that take a long time to play or type that is hard to read.
If you need to set the microphone level click Set Microphone Level.Try This!
You can adjust the quality of your microphone before you begin recording. Simply click the Change Quality button in the Record Narration dialog box, and in the Sound Selection dialog box that appears, choose different attributes. For example, choosing a higher kilohertz, higher bit, stereo setting should provide a higher sampling rate. This means your sound quality will be crisper and clearer.
Read the speech in the Microphone Check dialog box to check your level and then click OK.
In the Record Narration dialog box, click Current Slide to begin the presentation from the currently displayed slide or First Slide to start at the beginning.
The Slide Show view displays. Begin reading your narration, advancing your slides as you would during a slide show.
When you reach the end, click Save to save the timings along with the narration, or Don’t Save if you don’t want to save them.
Tip
Your sound quality will be better if you have a more sensitive microphone. It might be worth spending a bit more for a better microphone headset to provide quality recording. Typically, there is a microphone or headset outlet on the back or front of your computer for plugging these in, and no other special hardware is required.
Navigate through your slide show, leaving each slide on for the approximate length of time you wish to display it and discuss its contents.- When the slide show is done, in the dialog box that displays the total time for the show, click Yes to keep the settings or No to discard them.
- Saved timings will appear underneath slides in the Slide Sorter view.
See Also
For more information about running your slide show, see the tasks "Navigating through Slides" and "End a Show".