[ARSCLIST] Slides and inconvenient media

[Mwcpc6@xxxxxxx]

What about sound-slide shows?
 
We have a number of presentations that used to be loaned out as  slide trays 
with audio cassettes. Some also exist as dual trays and reel  tapes with cue 
tracks for automatic slide advance and dissolve control.  
 
In the past they were transferred to VHS with a camcorder shooting a  screen. 
 Now the tapes are being copied to DVD with a Sony DVD recorder for  
distribution to the few people who ask for them. Obviously the loss of quality  is 
severe, but nobody seems to care.
 
I would like to go back to the originals, to the extent that they exist,  
scan the slides and transfer the tapes, but don't know what would be the most  
practical means for presentation of the result. I've never seen a synchronized  
sound slide presentation on a computer except some done at conferences as  
QuickTime videos of a quality below that of VHS. 
 
Can PowerPoint do this?  How about other software that would  link good 
resolution still images with a sound file or series of files? Has  anyone produced 
HTML presentations in which a narration is presented by clicking  on an image 
or with some kind of timing script?
 
I would appreciate any links to such presentations on the net so I can see  
how well they perform.
 
Mike Csontos
 
 



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