Exploring Clip Art, Pictures, Movies, and Sound


Clip art, pictures, movies, and sounds can add a full multimedia effect to your presentations. You can insert picture, sound, and video clips from several sources ”from the Microsoft Clip Organizer, from Microsoft Office Online, or from your own stash of pictures, sounds, and videos .

Understanding Clip Art

Office offers thousands of clip art images that you can use to illustrate your presentations. Microsoft's Web site includes even more images. After you insert clip art into your presentation, you can reformat , recolor, and redesign it to suit your needs.

Office includes clip art images in the following formats:

  • Windows Metafile (WMF)

  • Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM)

  • Graphics Interchange Format (GIF)

  • Joint Photographic Experts Groups (JPEG)

You can also add images in the Portable Network Graphics (PNG) and Bitmap (BMP) formats.

Understanding Pictures

A picture is any drawing or photograph you insert from your own files. Unlike clip art, you can't control its format or color after you insert it into a presentation. PowerPoint accepts pictures in a many formats. Table 13.1 lists the most common picture formats.

Table 13.1. Picture Formats

File Extension

Format

.jpg , .jpeg , .jfif , .jpe

JPEG File Interchange Format

.png

Portable Network Graphics

.bmp , .dib , .rle , .bmz

Windows Bitmap

.gif , .gfa

Graphics Interchange Format

.tif , .tiff

Tagged Image File Format

.cdr

CorelDraw

.eps

Encapsulated PostScript

.pcd

Kodak PhotoCD

.pcx

PC Paintbrush

.pct , .pict

Macintosh PICT

Understanding Sound and Movie Files

PowerPoint lets you insert media clips (sound and movie files) in to your presentations. To play them, you need to have a sound card and speakers installed on your computer.

Media clips work in much the same way as clip art and pictures, and are also available through the Microsoft Clip Organizer. Common media clip file formats include the following:

  • MIDI Musical Instrument Digital Interface.

  • WAV Microsoft Windows audio format.

  • MPEG Motion Picture Experts Group , a standard video format.

  • AVI Microsoft Windows video format.

  • GIF Graphical Interchange Format. Animated GIFs (a series of GIF images that appear animated) are stored with other video files.

Media clips can greatly enhance your presentation's multimedia effect, but remember that, as with clip art and other images, overuse of media clips can clutter a presentation.

To learn more about ways to include multimedia content in your presentations, see "Incorporating Multimedia" in Chapter 28, "Exploring Technicalities and Techniques," p. 665 .


PowerPoint can play a clip automatically during a slideshow, or you can customize the clip to play only by a mouse action. Other multimedia options include recording your own sounds or playing a CD track as a slideshow background.



Special Edition Using Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003
Special Edition Using Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003
ISBN: 0789729571
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 261

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