video/movie in a presentation

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I've never done this before and I would appreciate some help.

My daughter made a PPT (Office 2007 powerpoint) presentation with some
movie clips of her vacation. On our computer, under different user
ids, it plays just fine. When she takes it to school, it will not play
the movies.

I checked, and somewhere in the Movie Tools I did see that the files
point to a specific location on our harddrive. The way I can see to
circumvent this is to copy the movies to the same flash drive as the
PPT is on so that they go with the presentation.

Unfortunately, if powerpoint hardcodes the file location, and the USB
flash drive gets a different drive letter on the school computer, the
movies will still not play, nor will the presentation if she emails it
to someone else.

Is there a way to force powerpoint to imbed the video file as it does
with images or what is the solution here?

Thanks!
 
You need to first save the presentation, then move your movie files in the
same folder and finally insert the movie in the presentation. This makes
PowerPoint look into the presentation's folder when you play the slide show.
You can also move the complete folder with presentation and movies to a
different location and it will play well. For now, try the Package for CD
option ("Office" button on top-left, "Publish" button, "Package for CD"
item), click the "Copy to Folder..." button. This should get the movies and
presentation in the same folder and now you can move the folder to a
different location.

- Chirag

PowerShow - View multiple PowerPoint slide shows simultaneously
http://officeone.mvps.org/powershow/powershow.html
 
Chirag,
Thank you so much!

On a side note. Your name is kind of unusual but I've encountered it
once before. Are you involved in Finanz? If so, this is a really small
world!

MikeB
 
I've never done this before and I would appreciate some help.

My daughter made a PPT (Office 2007 powerpoint) presentation with some
movie clips of her vacation.  On our computer, under different user
ids, it plays just fine. When she takes it to school, it will not play
the movies.

I checked, and somewhere in the Movie Tools I did see that the files
point to a specific location on our harddrive. The way I can see to
circumvent this is to copy the movies to the same flash drive as the
PPT is on so that they go with the presentation.

Unfortunately, if powerpoint hardcodes the file location, and the USB
flash drive gets a different drive letter on the school computer, the
movies will still not play, nor will the presentation if she emails it
to someone else.

Is there a way to force powerpoint to imbed the video file as it does
with images or what is the solution here?

Thanks!
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You can do the following things:
1. upload the powerpoint to webs online like slideshare.com,
slideboom.com,etc, P.S. some animations wil be lost,and you can't
download the files
2. convert powerpoint to vieo or flash, thus you needn't to worry
about the video inserted in your powerpoint. You can do the
conversion online here : authorstream.com & zamzar.com. P.S. there is
limitation on the file size and quantity, and animations may be lost.
besides, you can convert the file with third party tools, such as
Acoolsoft PPT to Video converter http://acoolsoft.com/powerpoint-to-video-overview.html
and PPT to Flash http://acoolsoft.com/powerpoint-to-flash-overview.html

Following the methods, your daughter can email the slideshow easily!
 
You can do the following things:
1. upload the powerpoint to webs online like slideshare.com,
slideboom.com,etc,  P.S. some animations wil be lost,and you can't
download the files
2. convert powerpoint to vieo or flash, thus you needn't to worry
about  the video inserted in your powerpoint. You can do the
conversion online here : authorstream.com & zamzar.com. P.S. there is
limitation on the file size and quantity, and animations may be lost.
besides, you can convert the file with third party tools, such as
Acoolsoft PPT to Video converter  http://acoolsoft.com/powerpoint-to-video-overview.html
and PPT to Flashhttp://acoolsoft.com/powerpoint-to-flash-overview.html

Following the methods, your daughter can email the slideshow easily!
Click to expand...

Always put the movie in the same folder as your PowerPoint
presentation.If you later move the PowerPoint presentation to another
computer, copy the movie too. Keeping your movie in the same folder as
your presentation ensures the link will still work. However, you
should always test the movie on a new machine just to be certain. Re-
insert the movie, if necessary.

You can also convert the PowerPoint to video(http://www.dvd-ppt-
slideshow.com/ppt-to-video/ ) so that the movie will be absolutely
embeded into the video and play it easy with mobile devices and video
sharing websites and even another system computer.
 
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