Tweet How to mute a video and play narration or music in sync with video in PowerPoint 2010

There are times when you want to use some interesting video in your presentation but don't want the audio to play. Instead  you want your own voice-over or some music to play in the background. PowerPoint 2010 not only lets you mute the audio but also lets you play your voice-over, a pre-recorded narration or a music file as if  the audio is recorded in the video itself. Here are the steps to mute the audio of a video file inserted in slide:

• Insert the video you want to play during slideshow
• Click on the video
• Click on Playback tab on ribbon
• Click on Volume option
• Click Mute to mute the audio (you can also adjust audio to low or medium)
• Set the video to play automatically or play on click as per  your requirement 

Adding your own voice-over or narrations
Adding narration or your own voice-over to a slide show is pretty simple:

• Click on Slide Show tab on ribbon  
• Click Record Slide Show to start recording your own voice
• Leave the 'Narrations and laser' pointer check box ticked 
• Click Start Recording button to record your voice 

Using music or pre-recorded audio narration

In case you want to play some music along with video, click on Insert on ribbon. Click Audio and select the option Audio from File and insert the audio file. Click Animations on ribbon followed by Animation Pane. Set the start of audio file to with previous so that it plays as soon as the video starts playing. 

Now run the slideshow. You will notice that the video plays along with  narration or music and gives an impression as if audio is a part of the video inserted. You can use this technique to create your own lectures or demo presentations and include any demo, documentary or science videos  and add your voice-over to explain the concepts shown in the video, in sync with the video.

Tweet How to embed, record, insert, edit audio in PowerPoint?

We all love and admire presentations jazzed up  with multimedia elements. Who would not love a custom PowerPoint greeting having audio message from someone you love or a PowerPoint photo album with right blend of sound and music?

Even a business presentation can have long lasting effect with right kind of music or sound appearing at right point.  However, many of us find it difficult when it comes to adding music, sound or record our own voice. PowerPoint has different ways and properties to handle audio files. Let us discuss them one by one. 

Recording your own voice in a PowerPoint slideshow (Narrations)
If you just want to record audio on one slide or when audio sync is not that important with animations or slides  this can be a good option:

• Click on insert tab on PowerPoint 2010 ribbon and then click on audio drop down.
•  Select "Record Audio" option. A dialog box with option to record will appear
• Click record button to record audio. Recored audio will get embedded on current active slide

If you want to record narrations in 2010 synced with animations and slides (in slideshow mode): This video tutorial will help you understand the steps involved in recording narration:



Record narrations in 2007

Insert music

Inserting music or audio file in PowerPoint is quite easy.

• Click on insert tab on PowerPoint 2010 ribbon and then click on audio drop down
• Select "Insert from file"
• Select the audio file from you system and click insert to add it to slide
• You can set different properties for this audio file by double clicking the sound icon 
• Click on playback tab and set the options as desired

Play across slides and loop small audio until last slide

If you want to play some music or sound continuously when slideshow is in progress, you can set the audio property to loop until last to play it across slides.

Edit audio inserted in slide
Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 lets you trim the audio files inserted so that you can set the start and end time for a audio file which is quite long and just a smart portion of it make sense for your audience: