Full Screen Video in Powerpoint

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Don Hertz

Help! I've been given a task by my employer to encoder
and embed full screen video in Powerpoint for a
presention this Thursday. The video clip is 2 minutes
long and I know the laptop they will be using for
playback is pretty powerful. Any suggestions for
providing a link in a Powerpoint slide that will open up
and play a video clip full screen and then return to the
Powerpoint slide when done? I've embedded video in the
past but never anything full screen. Should I use MPEG-2
or Windows Media? Thanks for any suggestions.

Sincerely,

Don Hertz
 
Hi Don
The process is the same if the video is to be full screen.
Insert>Movies and sounds>Movie from file. Then stretch the inserted movie
to fill the page.
MPEG1 should play well but quality may disappoint.
WMV can be very good if encoded with high quality settings but I find it
takes uncomfortably long to start playing in PowerPoint.
I use MPEG2 a lot and like it very much. When encoded with DVD quality
settings it can look great. You may need to install a software decoder to
get it to play, depending on your machine set up. If you need to I'd
recommend the one at www.elecard.com
Also remember that video files are linked, not embedded...so put the video
in the same folder as the PowerPoint before you insert it and take both
files together when you copy to another machine.
 
Thanks for the info. The problem I have is that I have
not been provided an entire slide for the full screen
video. Is it possible to create a small icon within the
slide, have it link to the full screen? (The effect I'm
looking for is that the presenter clicks on an icon, the
video fades up and plays full screen and then at the end
of the video it fades back out and returns to the slide.)
Right now when I create the link from an icon to the MPEG-
2 file it opens Windows Media Player. The presenter then
has to manually start the file playing, select "play full
screen", and when its done manually close the player and
return to Powerpoint. I'd like to eliminate these
inbetween steps if possible.

Thanks,

Don Hertz
 
Can't you do it the way I described, using Insert>Movies and Sounds>Movie
from file?
Create a blank slide for the video, insert it and stretch to fill the
screen, then duplicate the preceding slide if necessary to return to after
the video. Inserting a clip like this doesn't call Windows Media Player but
will play full screen without user intervention.
 
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