VIDEO CLIP IN POWER POINT DILEMMA

A video clip doesn't play when I go fwd through the presentation. However,
if I back up one slide and then click forward it does! The ppt runs
perfectly on another computer tht has identical sofrware loaded. I have
tried changing the format from avi to mepg, but the same situation prevails.
This is a mystery and I hope someone can help as the ppt is presented to
large audiences and it is embarassing having to go back to the previous slide
to get the video clip to play.

Am 22.02.2010 07:08, schrieb gogotek:
A video clip doesn't play when I go fwd through the presentation. However,
if I back up one slide and then click forward it does! The ppt runs
perfectly on another computer tht has identical sofrware loaded. I have
tried changing the format from avi to mepg, but the same situation prevails.
This is a mystery and I hope someone can help as the ppt is presented to
large audiences and it is embarassing having to go back to the previous slide
to get the video clip to play.

Powerpoint and Videos still make problems. Did you try installing the
latest service pack on the computer with the problems?

Doesn't matter how you change it that is the default for PowerPoint it will
always bring you in after all the events on your slide have been completed.
If you want to replay the video again you should put a blank slide with zero
transition times and link back to it. Then your video will replay.

--
Michael Koerner
MS MVP - PowerPoint



"gogotek" wrote in message
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A video clip doesn't play when I go fwd through the presentation.
However,
if I back up one slide and then click forward it does! The ppt runs
perfectly on another computer tht has identical sofrware loaded. I have
tried changing the format from avi to mepg, but the same situation
prevails.
This is a mystery and I hope someone can help as the ppt is presented to
large audiences and it is embarassing having to go back to the previous
slide
to get the video clip to play.

Should have said. Put a blank slide before the one you want to replay with
zero transitions and link back to it.

--
Michael Koerner
MS MVP - PowerPoint



"Michael Koerner" wrote in message
...
Doesn't matter how you change it that is the default for PowerPoint it
will always bring you in after all the events on your slide have been
completed. If you want to replay the video again you should put a blank
slide with zero transition times and link back to it. Then your video will
replay.

--
Michael Koerner
MS MVP - PowerPoint



"gogotek" wrote in message
...
A video clip doesn't play when I go fwd through the presentation.
However,
if I back up one slide and then click forward it does! The ppt runs
perfectly on another computer tht has identical sofrware loaded. I have
tried changing the format from avi to mepg, but the same situation
prevails.
This is a mystery and I hope someone can help as the ppt is presented to
large audiences and it is embarassing having to go back to the previous
slide
to get the video clip to play.

On 2/22/10 1:08 AM, gogotek wrote:
A video clip doesn't play when I go fwd through the presentation. However,
if I back up one slide and then click forward it does! The ppt runs
perfectly on another computer tht has identical sofrware loaded. I have
tried changing the format from avi to mepg, but the same situation prevails.
This is a mystery and I hope someone can help as the ppt is presented to
large audiences and it is embarassing having to go back to the previous slide
to get the video clip to play.

As Michael said, this is probably related to normal PowerPoint behavior.
My guess is that this isn't working differently on different computers
because the normal behavior is that any automatic event (video playing,
animation playing, music playing) only restarts when you move forward to
a slide. So, if you go to a slide and things play, and then you go back
to a slide, the slide won't replay those things. You actually have to
move forward to it again. If you want to hyperlink to a slide and have
it play again, the trick that Michael mentioned should work. You should
place a blank slide before the slide and set the blank slide to have a
0-second automatic transition to the next slide. Then, you can point all
hyperlinks to the blank slide, and it will automatically bounce forward
and replay all the stuff.

--David

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David M. Marcovitz
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Associate Professor, Loyola University Maryland