Video format needed for PP insertion

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Eric Johnson

I am working on a project for a dog club. We own the
rights to a video about the breed. Our "Judges Education
Committee" has produced a PP presentation about the breed
but would like to include clips from the video.

The media house we use can convert the video into most
anything but we need to know what format is needed for our
PP person to select clips and paste into the presentation.

Thanks.

Eric Johnson
 
Eric,

If this presentation is going to be distributed to unknown machines with
various versions of Windows, I'd suggest using the lowest common
denominator. That means a plain old avi with either the Cinepak codec or
the Indio 3.x codec.

Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team
 
MPEG level 1 is the most universal and almost guarantees it will play on any
Windows PC. If you are running it from a computer or CD go for 720x486 which
makes a bigger file (in size and megabytes), but provides a superior
computer playback. Also here is a good page with lots of details about
multimedia files and PPT: http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00099.htm

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Troy Chollar
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Eric

Standard MPEG1 files are the most reliable.

You can go down the AVI route....but it needs testing along the way to make
sure it will play back OK

Cheers
TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp

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Standard MPEG1 files are the most reliable.
Click to expand...

Hmmm maybe, sometimes, perhaps. The key is to make certain they follow the
Redbook standard for Mpeg-1. If not you are inviting problems.

Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team
 
That's why I put the word "standard" in there. Which I take to mean pixel
resolutions of

352x240 ntsc
352x288 pal

I couldn't put my hand on my heart and say 720x486 is MPEG1.

Cheers
TAJ
 
Hey Troy.... Just out of interest, what software do you use that can create
MPEG1 at 720x486. Surely that's not mpeg1?

Cheers
TAJ
 
Actually I was unaware that MPEG1 had restrictions to its size/aspect ratio.
The reason I listed 720x486 over the more traditional 320x240 or 640x480 is
that I just finished a project where Quicktime movies were supplied,
basically MPEG2 files. I converted these to MPEG2 files (using Media Cleaner
XL), keeping the specified size and they worked great. In my upcoming spare
time I'll have to go in and convert one to MPEG1 to see if I am limited in
any way.

For reference; files went from 150-225 MB Quicktime files to 50-70 MB MPEG2,
which I was very happy with (and playback quality was wonderful).

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Best Regards,
Troy Chollar
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"troy at TLCCreative dot com"
TLC Creative Services, inc.
www.tlccreative.com
==============================
 
That's OK then.... so your software classes them as MPEG2 and not MPEG1. Is
that correct?

Cheers
TAJ
 
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