large movie files in pp 2000 play choppy

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I have 9 movies ranging fron 200MB to 400MB that I want to play within pp for a corporate presentation. The movies were made using Adobe Premiere and compressesed using a cinepak codek that created an .avi file. I know the files are large but each time I tried to reduce the file size I lost considerable quality. Do you have any suggestions how I might be able to play the movies within pp or should I be looking for another type of presentation software?
 
Please tell me you are not using a 386.

This is probably a system resource problem, rather than a PowerPoint
specific one. PowerPoint hands off all its movie playing to the operating
system: it does none itself. However, some RAM is tied up with the
PowerPoint program, and some more is handling the OS, and yet more is
holding the presentation file itself. How much is left over to run the
movie and player?

Another possibility is that the video card or directX is out of date, try
upgrading these. If you are using dual video cards, make sure you upgrade
both. Upgrade to the newest DirectX version also. Its just a good idea.

My guess would be it's a slow/low/no show issue (slow processor, low memory,
or no updates).

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LIsa said:
I have 9 movies ranging fron 200MB to 400MB that I want to play within pp
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for a corporate presentation. The movies were made using Adobe Premiere and
compressesed using a cinepak codek that created an .avi file. I know the
files are large but each time I tried to reduce the file size I lost
considerable quality. Do you have any suggestions how I might be able to
play the movies within pp or should I be looking for another type of
presentation software?
 
I had similar big avi files too after using a Dazzle
capture device.
I compressed them 50 times with DivX5.1.1 into another avi
file and quality became even better.
Then I used a trick. I had some problems playing avi files
in PowerPoint. I got rid of all of them by just changing
an extension of the encoded file from avi to mpg.
Since then everything works OK.

-----Original Message-----
I have 9 movies ranging fron 200MB to 400MB that I want
Click to expand...
to play within pp for a corporate presentation. The
movies were made using Adobe Premiere and compressesed
using a cinepak codek that created an .avi file. I know
the files are large but each time I tried to reduce the
file size I lost considerable quality. Do you have any
suggestions how I might be able to play the movies within
pp or should I be looking for another type of presentation
software?
 
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