Posted by
Unruh, Jay-2 on
Sep 07, 2012; 2:28pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/3D-Power-Point-tp4999972p4999980.html
Hi all,
I have found a couple of things that seem to help. Firstly, on Office 2010, I use .mov files saved out of Quicktime Pro. These seem to play the best (much to Microsoft's chagrin I'm sure). Also, Powerpoint 2010 seems to work better than previous versions and shows a transparent movie player control under the movie for manual scrolling which is very nice. Secondly, I always have problems when running movies from network locations. I always copy the powerpoint and the movie to the local hard drive and in the same folder. Thirdly, the smaller the movie, the better. This is probably why .mov files worked better for me--I was able to compress down to smaller size and still maintain the quality I needed. Different compression formats didn't seem to change playback performance.
I was also surprised to find that my IT department had mirrored my My Documents folder to a network drive (so as to keep me from not backing up my data). Copying directly to the c drive or some other non-network location fixed the problem.
Hope this helps.
Jay
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Sent: Friday, September 07, 2012 9:16 AM
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Subject: Re: 3D, Power Point, I second the request
On 07/09/2012 15:52, Cammer, Michael wrote:
> If anyone knows how to reliably play any AVI or other format movie in
> PowerPoint (running on a PC, although this isn't reliable on Mac too),
> please tell us how. Each movie runs once or twice and then the window
> goes black. We've had a few IT people here look at this, but have not
> gotten results. During presentations I simply switch to Quicktime or
> ImageJ where I already have the movies queued up, but it would be more
> professional looking to be able to use PowerPoint.
Not exactly what you asked, but if your movie does not need sound, I've found that an animated GIF does the job most times.
Best,
José María Mateos.
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