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I would like to automatic pause a certain points (say at 55 seconds, 64 seconds...etc) when playing a movie (.avi file) in the power point. Can Power point support this function? IF not, any tricks to do this?
 
Are you saying you do not want to be able to go to the next page until the
movie is finished playing? If all you want to do is a pause in an automatic
transition presentation, yes Powerpoint has that feature. Just right click
the slide on the left, check Advance slide "automatically after ____"
seconds. You could disable advance on "mouse click" but spacebar would
probably still work.


JP said:
I would like to automatic pause a certain points (say at 55 seconds, 64
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seconds...etc) when playing a movie (.avi file) in the power point. Can
Power point support this function? IF not, any tricks to do this?
 
JP said:
I would like to automatic pause a certain points (say at 55 seconds, 64 seconds...etc) when playing a movie (.avi file) in the power point. Can Power point support this function? IF not, any tricks to do this?
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Does the restart have to be automatic, or can it be on mouseclick?

A quick experiment allowed me to do this in PPT 2002 (aka PPT XP) and
2003.

Insert your movie using Insert/Movies and Sounds/Movie from File. Say
yes to play automatically. Right-click and select Custom Animation.

In the custom animation tab, you should already have a play and a
trigger option. Those are already there because of the "play
automatically" you chose.

Now you want to add an effect, a "movie action," to be exact. So make
sure you have the movie selected on the slide, click Add Effect in the
Custom Animation task pane, and choose Movie Action/Pause.

That should insert a pause right after the play option on the task pane.
Select the pause on the task pane and double-click it. On the timing
tab, set it to start "with previous," and add the delay time (55, 64,
whatever).

This will pause the movie at the appropriate time. Simply click it to
start it running again. (The trigger which was automatically added to
the task pane does that part.)

I tried to get the movie to start again at the same place after, say, 3
seconds, but I didn't have any luck. It wants to start over at the
beginning. Don't have time to mess with it right now, but I may try to
have a closer look at that in the next couple of days.
 
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