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When you add narration to a presentation, especially with slide timings, you create a self-running presentation. It’s almost a video-like effect. Such a presentation is great for sending to potential customers on a CD, posting on your website or a presentation-sharing site, or displaying at a trade show or in your company’s lobby.

Usually, I prefer to record my voice using Audacity, a free sound recorder and editor.  If you download it, be sure to also read the instructions for, and download, the LAME MP3 encoder, which lets you save files in MP3 format. The advantage is that it’s easier to edit the files, in case you tend to trip over your own tongue, as I do!

However, recently I wanted to post a presentation with narration at authorSTREAM.com. This slide sharing site has some nice benefits:

    * You can upload presentations with embedded sound

    * It plays many animations

    * You can convert presentations of under 5 minutes to video for free, to post at video-sharing sites (like YouTube) or on your own site.

But the sound must be embedded, which means using the narration feature (or doing a trick with MP3′s to make PowerPoint think they’re WAV files-because PowerPoint can only embed WAV files).

** Get the best quality sound

So I tried the narration feature and discovered that the quality was awful! There was a huge amount of noise in the background. When I tried used the same equipment in Audacity, the sound was just fine. That’s when I discovered the first secret: CD quality.

To start narration, you go to the Slide Show tab and click Record Narration (in 2002/2003 choose Slide Show> Record Narration).  Click the Set Microphone Level button to set and test your audio setup.

Then be sure to click the Change Quality button! You need to do this every single time; you can’t change the default.

Change the quality when you narrate

Then, in the Sound Selection dialog box, choose CD Quality from the Name drop-down list, and click OK twice to start narrating.

Use CD Quality for your narration

You then go into Slide Show view automatically. Narrate the presentation, clicking to move from slide to slide. At the end, you’ll be asked if you want to save the slide timings. Do so to set the timings for each slide to match the narration.

** Edit narration successfully

If you make a mistake, you can re-narrate a slide. Go to the slide, re-open the Record Narration dialog box and start again. Record the narration for that slide and then press Esc. Be careful not to go to the next slide.

However, if your new narration is longer than the original, you may run into a recognized problem-truncated narrations! This can be very frustrating. It apparently happens because PowerPoint saves narration timings separately from slide timings. Even if you increase the timing for the slide, PowerPoint will truncate the narration!

I’m going to tell you what Microsoft says to do and then tell you what worked for me.

Microsoft’s instructions are:

1. Make sure that all animations are set to advance on mouse click and not automatically.

2. If the last item to be animated on the slide is a text frame of an AutoShape that contains text, create one new shape and place it outside of the slide’s area. Set the shape’s Custom Animation setting to Appear. Make sure that the shape is the last item to animate and that it is set to animated on a mouse click.

3. Make sure that any slide transitions are set to advance on a mouse click and not automatically.

4. Re-record the narration and click No when asked if youwant to save the slide timings.

5. Preview the presentation in Slide Show view manually and check the narrations.

6. Then add the automatic slide and animation timings.

No matter what I did, my new narration was cut off. I made it shorter than the original and still the same amount was cut off. Finally, I realized that that the problem wasn’t the length. PowerPoint was cutting off a certain amount no matter what the length. So, I recorded a silent period at the end  of a narration. Then, when PowerPoint cut it off, I was fine!

There are a wide variety of gifts which can be presented to a couple which is newly betrothed or a newly wedded couple depending upon their need or the choice of the guest. A gift is the representation of affection and love and concern towards love. It is a custom being followed by people all around the world.

According to wedding etiquettes, all the people who are officially sent an invite are obliged to offer a gift to the couple irrespective of them attending the wedding or not. There is an exception here, people who stay far away or those who are not very close to the couple need not send in gifts to the couple.

A guest, who has been requested to attend the ceremony, has to gift the couple. But he/she is expelled from this obligation if they cannot make it to the event. However, a close friend or a family member will generally send some gift even if not able to attend the ceremony.

Gifts for engagements are not obligatory but have started gaining importance in many regions around the world.

There is a great deal of things which can be gifted to a couple on their wedding. It ranges from gift certificates to gardening tools, camping equipments to expensive china and also household appliances. The gift registry of the couple may also prove very useful in this regard. However, registry information should not be contained in the invitation and must be spread informally. The new trend which is gaining popularity is the action of couples in registering with a couple of retail stores or travel agents or online shops.

Mentioning about the gift registry in the invitation is not a great idea at all since it would not impress many of the guests. The people who are invited ought to get the choice to gift a couple on their wedding. Many times, the most loved and treasured gifts are those which turn out to be a pleasant surprise to the couple.

Gifts which would be sent post wedding are to be sent to the address of the couple’s new home or to the place of the bride’s parents. And in case you are planning to send the gift before marriage, you are supposed to send it to the bride’s residence. Guests may also choose to send the gift to the couple soon after they receive an invite. This saves the couple from getting tensed about moving the gifts after the reception.

On receiving a gift, the couple should make sure that they send a note of thanks to the sender soon after receiving the gift or within four months from the date of marriage. This is the appropriate etiquette to be followed when presents are received.

Video marketing is where it’s at. With its preferred search engine ranking and ability to share a message and hold a prospects attention in today’s world of click and send communication, video marketing has become very popular. To capture a viewer’s attention today your message must entice with Voice, Visual, and Audio. This is the way to grab and hold their attention long enough to share your message. Video presentation mlm is the answer.

Making a video is not that much different than a presentation you create in an email, article or even present in front of a group. So when you are drafting your video scripts remember to use the same tools that you would for any great presentation.

Structure your video script like any presentation you would make – but now add the power of sound, text and imagery.

I read an interesting piece in a book by John David Mann, The Zen of MLM. The piece, “Secrets of a Great Presentation“, originally appeared in June 2001 as an epilogue to The Master Presentation Guild, by Jan Ruhe. In it Jan explains that in order to make a great presentation, you need to make sure it will sing and dance, laugh and cry, and tell a truth in a powerful way. These are all key elements in video presentation mlm training.

MAKE IT SING

Avoid being dull by using variation in pitch and volume from high to low and loud to soft. The ebb and flow of your story and message needs to pattern itself after a good movie; where the music intensifies just before the scene climaxes. Remember, too, “white space” in an article is powerful – so is a magnificent pause just before a punch line. The greatest storytellers make more impressions with what they don’t say – by using silence in their speech.

MAKE IT DANCE

Here I’m referring to images the audience makes in their minds, not the rhythm of your words. Images are best created when the audience is given contrary examples: I was once lost, now I am found; I was blinded by fear, but now I can see. The classic salesman’s tool of feel-felt-found approach is another way of speaking with rhythm. (I know how you feel Carol, I used to feel the same way until I discovered different, and here is what I found…) That approach always makes your presentation dance.

MAKE IT LAUGH AND CRY

Most presentations I hear today include this part — a good before and after experience. The beginning is where you hear how they were broke or even homeless; and now they are financially abundant and secure. Before and after stories are great, but try to pull more details in so that the audience can imagine more vividly. This is the way to draw the pain and joy that are the two most distinct emotions you share with the audience. They too desire to enjoy pleasure and avoid pain.

Back to the before and after story; if the before includes an explanation of how you felt not being able to send your son on a weekend camping trip that was attended by all his school mates – to then, years later, your son wins a prestigious award as the top pupil in a private school you are now able to afford. That would make your presentation “laugh and cry.”

MAKE IT TRUTH “FULL”

Be in the present. Don’t repeat a “canned presentation” that you have done a hundred times. To be in the present is when you share a topic that can be something you know inside and out or something you are just learning, but what’s key is to share what it means to you TODAY. Your only goal here is to convey the most valuable single point that would benefit the audience now. By being current, you can draw on recent experiences as well as long acquired knowledge all with an open mind. This is being truth “full” and makes a good presentation — great!