Anything like Shyam's IIW for importing AVI movies???

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Does anyone know of an add-in similar to Shyam's Image Importer Wizard for
avi movies?

With almost the same functionality of IIW, I need to batch import multiple
avi movies each on its own slide with the same properties and playback
settings.

How difficult would it be to create something like this with VBA?
 
It wouldn't be difficult to extend it to movies. There has never has
requests for movie import. I couldn't come up with a scenario requiring
several movies in a presentation on a regular basis.
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Shyam Pillai

Handout Wizard
http://www.mvps.org/skp/how/
 
Thanks for the quick reply.

It might be well worth the time to develop a version of IIW for movies.

The process of inserting each of these clips is monotonous and prone to
human error. Insert movie clip, yes/no autostart, set size, set postion,
right click - edit movie - set to loop. Repeat. The faster you get the
more likely you will mess it up.

For those of us in medicine, presentations with 30 to 120 slides of movie
clips are very common. Internal imaging systems record patient exams in
multiple short (2-10 second) "runs" in the dicom format which can then be
easily exported as avi clips. Medical professionals present patient cases
most often by lining up a series of these clips on slides set to loop. This
allows a presenter to flip through and spend as much time as needed on each
aspect of the case.

Anyone in software training or sales could also benefit from this add-in.
Record multiple short screen video clips of the software you need to
demonstrate using something like Camtasia or Hypercam. Then instantly add
the clips to PP using IIW for AVI. Short clips on seperate slides work
better because it allows you to tailor your standard demo presentation on
the fly. You can show off different aspects of the software without the
danger of actually opening the real thing and exposing its flaws /
shortcomings. Also, shorter clips with decent compression run better on
slower laptops than a single longer video.

If you have any further interest in this, I'm happy to offer more input or
whatever.

Thanks again!

p.s. - I'm looking at purchasing multiple licenses of the toolbox and IIW.
Do you anticipate any compatibility issues or feature redundancy with Office
2003?
 
Thanks for the input. I should have a sample ready for testing in a few
days. I''ll post back soon with developments.
 
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