Creating Narrated PowerPoint Slides Using WindowsMedia

• Create you PowerPoint narrated slides as before by invoking PowerPoint and clicking on Slide Show > Record Narration , and remember to set "(*) Link Narrations..." on as before
• Create a WindowsMedia ASF file as follows:
  • In PowerPoint click on Tools > Publish to ASF...
  • Select "Internet 28.8 kbps" if people need to access this over modems.
  • Make sure the right folder path is selected
  • Click on PLAY and then FINISH: the latter creates a WindowsMedia (.asf) file

Now to actually publish this on the web, we are again going to select a specific file name, "slide1.ppt", which you should change for your purposes. The steps needed are:

• On your PC start up "On-Demand Producer" by clicking on "START > Programs > Widows Media > On Demand Producer"
• In the menu that pops up, click on "FILE > Publish Windows Media"
• After several menus you will see one that contains a box labeled "Generate ASX file" -- make sure it is selected.
• In the same menu browse to find your ".asf" file, in this case "slide1.asf", set the "ASF Server Path" to blank, and set the "Destination Directory" to the same one that contains your ".asf" file
• In the next menu, select "Generate HTML file". Then fill in the following text boxes:
  • Enter target ASX File Name: -- you enter "slide1.asx"
  • URL to ASX file: -- you enter your web server path, such as "http://staff.washington.edu/my-id/my-sub" if "my-id" is your logon id and "my-sub" is a sub-directory in your "public_html" directory.
  • Select HTML Template: -- select "Simple Stand Alone Player"
  • Destination directory for HTML file: -- the same directory on your PC that holds your "slide1.ppt", "slide1.asf", and "slide1.asx" files. Then click on "Finish"

  This process creates a file named "default.htm" in the same directory as your other .ppt, .asf, and .asx files. Then to actually install these files on our UW web servers yow do this:

• Use binary FTP (perhaps WSFTP) to copy the three files "slide1.asf", ".slide1.asx", and "default.htm" to the desired directory on your server. In the above case, this would be "public_html/my-sub" on Homer or Dante.
• Once these files are on the UW web servers, you need to (a) link them to some web page and (b) edit them to create reasonable size slides. In the "default.htm" file you will find a line that reads:

  OBJECT ID="MMPlayer1" WIDTH=nnn HEIGHT=mmm

  Change that to:

  OBJECT ID="MMPlayer1" WIDTH=400 HEIGHT=400

  or something similar