Action button to trigger a movie which is already on the slide?

[Echo S]

We used a Windows Media Control, if I recall correctly. That's where you
got the "spreadsheet-looking" thing.

Here's how to do it:
1. View/Toolbars/Control Toolbox
2. Click the hammer ("more controls")
3. Choose Windows Media Player
4. Draw a box for your video on your slide
5. With the media player box selected on the slide, click Properties on
the control toolbox toolbar (has a hand and a paper on it)
6. Now you see the "spreadsheet." Put in your file name under the
FileName option
7. Close the properties window. Run the slideshow.

As for the trigger, I think that's what I emailed the sample file of,
right? First thing to know is that these triggers won't work in PPT
2000, only in PPT 2002 or 2003. So that could be the problem right
there.

But to set a trigger to start/pause/play a movie in 2002, you'd do the
following:

1. Insert your movie using Insert/Movies and Sounds/Movie from File. Say
"no" to play automatically (or say "yes," it doesn't really matter that
much. <g>)
2. Draw your objects which you'll click to start, pause, and play the
movie.
3. Right-click the movie, select custom animation
4. In the custom animation task pane, click Add Effect. Go to Movie
Actions and select Play.
5. In the custom animation task pane, double-click that action you just
added. Go to the Timing tab.
6. Click the "triggers" button and choose "start effect on click of"
7. In the "start effect on click of" box, choose the object you drew in
step 2 to trigger the play action.
8. Click OK.

Repeat those steps for Stop and Pause. Remember to select the movie *on
the slide* in order to add an animation effect (add the trigger),
otherwise you'll just be selecting them in the task pane and *changing*
the effect you already set. So basically, you'd repeat the steps avove
from #3 to add the Stop and Pause effects.

 

[Bobbie Clements]

Hi Echo,

John here. I opened the example slide you emailed to me from the PP
conference I can't seem to replicate it.

I went to BDaltons and looked through PowerPoint manuals and tried to find
the answer for myself. They said that an actions buttons could trigger a
multimedia object but did not say how to do it.

I've got PP2000 at home. At work, some of my colleagues have PP2002.

I can create an action button(s) and I can insert a movie file; easy enough
to do.

1. But I can't remember the part that brings up the tall and narrow dialog
which looks like a two-column spreadsheet (black text on a white background)
which had a ton of commands in the left column and entry spaces or values in
the right column. The closest thing I could find was inserting an OLE
object, not linking to an existing object. After that was done I believe
there was another dialog where you actually picked from a list of objects
names residing on a slide.

2. Also, I believe a standard object could be made to act like an action
button to trigger the playing, pausing, and stopping of a movie. If so, can
you refresh me on that process?

Any help (again) would be appreciate (said, turning red from embarrassment)

Regards,
J Clements

 

[Bobbie Clements]

Echo,

Thank you.

I will give it a try when I get to work.

John