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Q1: What is Producer 2003? Microsoft Producer for Microsoft Office PowerPoint® 2003 is the next version of this very popular add-on for Microsoft PowerPoint. It provides powerful features that make it easier to synchronize audio, video, slides, and graphics to create engaging and effective media-rich presentations. Q2: Will Producer 2003 work with PowerPoint 2002? Yes, Producer 2003 works with PowerPoint 2003 and PowerPoint version 2002. Q3: #1 of 17 Cool Features of Producer 2003! Record multiple timing sets for flipping slides. Enhanced PowerPoint integration enables you to easily capture and save the timings for flipping slides from any PowerPoint presentation. Up to 5 timing sets can be stored with each presentation. You can then import these slides into Producer 2003. Slide timings from the selected set appear automatically on the timeline. Q4: #2 of 17 Cool Features of Producer 2003! Improve audio and video quality. Support for Microsoft Windows Media 9 Series enables you to capture audio and video quality unmatched in previous versions of the Windows Media® player. You can see improvements of up to 20 percent for audio compression and 50 percent for video. Producer 2003 includes support for the Microsoft Windows Media Audio and Video 9 Series, as well as the Windows Media Video 9 Screen and Windows Media Audio 9 Voice codecs. Q5: #3 of 17 Cool Features of Producer 2003! More easily capture narration. Narrate a slide deck from within the enhanced New Presentation Wizard without having to first drop your PowerPoint presentation on the timeline. You can improve workflow and reduce the number of steps required to import and capture narration. Q6: #4 of 17 Cool Features of Producer 2003! Import timeline snaps to arrange files in a timeline. Automatically add timeline snaps points based on markers or script triggers in an imported text file or Extensible Markup Language (XML) file. Content and media professionals may appreciate this feature, which can help simplify and speed post-production work. Q7: #5 of 17 Cool Features of Producer 2003! Improved Synchronization Wizard makes synchronization in various scenarios easier than in previous versions of Producer. The Synchronization Wizard enables you to use the space bar to advance slides and animation effects while recording a presentation, making it easier to advance slides when reading from a teleprompter. Q8: #6 of 17 Cool Features of Producer 2003! Comply with eLearning standards. Producer 2003 complies with the metadata standards prescribed by eLearning specification and standards groups such as the IMS Global Learning Consortium Inc. and the Department of Defense Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM), paving the way for additional use in education and government. Q9: #7 of 17 Cool Features of Producer 2003! Provide support for Macintosh and Netscape users. Presentations created with Producer 2003 can be played back on Macintosh computers (using Microsoft Internet Explorer for Mac) and in Netscape browsers that are based on the Microsoft Windows® operating system. This helps you do more and removes barriers to deployment for some would-be users. Q10: #8 of 17 Cool Features of Producer 2003! Remember stopping points. With a new Smart Resume feature, viewers can watch a presentation, close it, and then resume playback right where they left off by just opening the presentation. Q11: #9 of 17 Cool Features of Producer 2003! Publish to Windows SharePoint Services sites. In addition to publishing to Microsoft Office SharePoint™ Portal Server 2003, you can now publish presentations to a Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services site with just a few clicks. Viewers can also search for presentations by title, author, and description using Windows SharePoint Services. Q12: #10 of 17 Cool Features of Producer 2003! Easily locate and replay parts of a presentation. Viewers can fast forward or rewind a presentation in 10-seconds-per-click increments, which are perfect for locating and replaying the most relevant parts of a presentation." Q13: #11 of 17 Cool Features of Producer 2003! Use variable speed playback. By using the Windows Media Player 9 Series running on a computer with Microsoft Windows XP, viewers can speed up or slow down presentations without changing the pitch of the presenter's voice to help improve productivity and understanding. Q14: #12 of 17 Cool Features of Producer 2003! More easily transport and archive Producer projects. Split the Pack and Go files of a large presentation and save them to multiple files for easier transport on multiple writable CDs or DVDs. The Pack and Go feature allows you to create a Producer project archive that contains all the files in your project, along with all of your timeline settings. Q15: #13 of 17 Cool Features of Producer 2003! Save time in publishing. Content and media professionals can save time by publishing presentations without having to re-encode imported Microsoft Windows Media Video (WMV) files. Q16: #14 of 17 Cool Features of Producer 2003! Provide more options for enhanced playback. When you create content in multiple bit rates or for different versions of the Windows Media format, you can have the available choices display on the introduction page—the first page the viewer sees. Viewers can select the bit rate and format best suited for playback on their computer to help ensure the best possible playback experience. Q17: #15 of 17 Cool Features of Producer 2003! Embed presentations into HTML frames. By putting your presentations into a browser frame, or Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) iFrame, you can display your content in a larger context, such as an eLearning module delivered from a learning portal. Q18: #16 of 17 Cool Features of Producer 2003! Get a TV-like experience with Fast Streaming. Viewers watching presentations, delivered by Windows Media Services 9 Series in Microsoft Windows Server™ 2003, can benefit from Fast Streaming to effectively eliminate buffering delays in audio and video streamed from corporate intranets and the Web. Q19: #17 of 17 Cool Features of Producer 2003! Specify location parameters in an ASX file. To improve the playback experience, service providers can dynamically build an ASX file referencing media files based on parameters of their choice. Parameters may include the end user's connection speed, geographic location, or location inside or outside of a firewall.
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