This document provides instructions for adding video, audio, and picture files to Microsoft PowerPoint and OpenOffice Presentation slides. It explains how to insert video and sound files from files and add them to slides. Pictures and media files need to be in the same folder as the presentation. Objects on slides can be customized with behaviors like playing integrated sounds when clicked. Sound files in WAV or AIFF format but not MP3 can be assigned to objects to play when the object is clicked.

1. Study guide for week 10#3:
How to add video and audio files to Microsoft
Powerpoints (PPT)/OpenOffice Presentations (ODP)
KUM7088 Multimedia in Music Education
Composed by
Gerhard Lock

2. Video fragment: Street
percussionist in front of Harvard
University book shop 2010 (G. Lock)
Add Video:
Insert
--> Movies and
Sounds --> Movie
from file
Integrated video
can be played /
stoped by mouse
click on the video
area.
Picture: India Independence Day
New York, parade 2010 (G. Lock)
NB!: Pictures and especially Sounds and Movies needs to be physically located in the same folder as the
presentation. After completing your presentation you may save it with mediafiles automatically into a separate
folder.

3. NB!: Pictures and especially Sounds and Movies needs to be physically located in the same folder as the
presentation. After completing your presentation you may save it with mediafiles automatically into a separate
folder.
Add Soundfile
Possibility #1
Insert
 Movies and
Sounds -->
Sound from file
(may be also mp3
format)
Then appears:
loudspeakeri
symbol, as picture
can be
enlarged/minimized
and located
everywhere on the
slide
As simple effect
you may add to
objects on the
slide standard
sounds included
in PowerPoint.
Mark the object
--> Action
settings --> play
sound -->
choose
proposed sound
All things put on the slide are objects, which may be changed in size
and moved, given a behavior ...
Picture:
Seattle
Washington
University
campus,
Sound:
Bells on the
campus (G.
Lock)

4. NB!: Pictures and especially Sounds and Movies needs to be physically located in the same folder as the
presentation. After completing your presentation you may save it with mediafiles automatically into a separate
folder.
All things put on the slide are objects, which may be changed in size
and moved, given a behavior and added sound!
Picture:
Seattle
Washington
University
campus,
Sound:
Bells on the
campus (G.
Lock)
Add Soundfile
Possibility #1
Mark object -->
Action
settings/Interactio
n --> play sound
--> choose the
appropriate sound
file from your
own files
RESTRICTION: as
format DON'T
WORK mp3,
instead choose
wav or aiff
Sound file starts to
play if clicking
with mouse on
that object (like
the picture in the
slide) and playing
until
a) file is over
b) giving another
object on the
same way
command stop
previous sound -->
this object may be
located also on
one of the
following slides.