Auto advance to next slide after video has played

[Dennis Gaines]

I have an inserted movie on a slide. I either want the
movie to go away after playing, or the slide to auto
advance to next slide after movie plays. Don't seem to
have any animation controls on the movie and don't know
how to get the slide to auto advance AFTER the movie has
played???

thanks,
Dennis

 

[Sonia]

Go to Slide Show > Slide Transition and set the slide to transition
automatically after 0 seconds.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for feedback.

I tried this, but it just advances without playing the
content of the slide (movie).

(Movie is inserted as a WMP object in PPTXP)

Dennis

 

[Patricia]

I have noticed that you need to click unto the item you are changing
when you change the timings or options on a slide.

 

[Sonia]

Try Insert > Movies and Sounds > Sound from File.

 

[Dennis Gaines]

Thanks for feedback!

Found out why I believe. Movie is an inserted Windows
Media Player object and doesn't look like you get to have
animated controls of such.

thanks,
Dennis

 

[Guest]

It is a .WMV file and PPTXP won't let you insert it that
way. I tried a regular .avi file and it worked fine. Did
figure a workaround though--just set the auto advance to
length of movie.

Thanks for input!
Dennis

 

[Mike M.]

That's about all you can do. Once PowerPoint fires off the embedded object
(WMP) it takes no further notice of it nor pays any attention to if it is
playing or not. Just trundles merrily alongs its way.

 

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