The first thing I want to touch on is on the Smart Focus. Remember how in the previous post I said that we won't be using that? We we won't, but well will be using the Zoom capability. Here is what we're looking at:
Everything in the "Preview" window is what the user would see, including the two-inch black border around the PowerPoint image. Let's get rid of that. An important thing to know is that you should do this first. If you edit the zoom on frame 1 before you perform any other editing then it will carry over into all subsequent edits. If you don't, then every time you make an edit you must re-establish the zoom effect. Trust Me, do this first on frame 1, it will save you from needing to introduce this effect for all of the "Extend Frame" operations you will be performing (below).
As you can see, the left panel is where I control the zoom effect. Here I have set it to 45% and I made it an "Instant" zoom, which means that it just goes to that scale instead of zooming from 100 to 45% over a period of time. On the right side you see the preview of how it will look to the user and this is consistent with what I wanted. There is no extra or wasted space here. I'll click "Finish" on the Zoom properties and you will see in the timeline, I have a new swimlane for Zoom effects. I can return to the zoom properties by double-clicking on the icon in the zoom swimlane and making adjustments.
Next, from yesterday, remember I had about 3 seconds of dead space between slides? This little transition from slides 3 to 4 was problematic for 2 reasons.
First, you can see as I drag the right side of my selection tool it displays the duration of my selection. This indicates a little more than 3 seconds. My rule of thumb is two second of dead space. First, I like about a second and a half before opening the new slide and about a half second after the transition before the narration picks up again. As you can see from the image below I am off on both accounts. So I'll have to remove some time at the send of slide 3 and add a little time at the beginning of slide 4.
Removing time is simple. All you do is highlight the area to be removed, right click and choose "Cut Selection" (see below).
Done, the timeline will collapse. Adding time is a little more involved and tricky. If you needed to add time to the end of a slide, which will push the video to the right. But keep in mind this won't push the audio, you can pick a point on the video timeline, right click and choose "Extend Frame". This will keep the image on the video swimlane longer than normal. Since we are dealing with PowerPoint in this instance and not live video, I can extend frames without any nervousness because the video is not fluid like a live motion video. The rule about extending a frame is that you must extend by at least 1 second. This is no big deal because if you only need a half second, you can simply add 1 second and then come in a moment later and cut a half second from it. See below for the screenshot and keep in mind that I right clicked in the video swimlane.
In this instance however, I need to add time after the slide because my audio picked up too quickly. To do this I'm going to look in my audio and fund a break. I'll right click there and choose "Split". This will split the audio from the video and allow me to push it to the right.
As you can see (below) there is a gap now in my audio and I can slide it independent of the video and other audio. I could even open up Audio 3 and move it down there if I wanted to.
Caveat for you though, you will see in the Zoom track that I get a couple brackets there. I will need to introduce another zoom effect just like the first one anytime I use the split function.
Next, I cheated a little bit in this last image. I increased the volume for the last section before the slide transition so that you can see that I had a little bit of noise. Tomorrow I'll focus on eliminating that noise and some other audio effects.
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