Animations and Video Stop

[Steve]

I have a powerpoint presentation that runs based on timing and a continuous
loop. Occassionally and randomly in one of its loops random animations or
videos on random slides are not animated or do not play.

for example, I run the slide show and everything runs great 3 times, the
next time on slide 4 the blinds effect on some text doesn't happen - the
text just appears. THe next 2 times it might run fine, then the next time
the video clip on slide 7 just appears and doesn't play. Then it might run
fine again and the fly from left animation on slide 2 doesn't work - the
text just appears. It seems to affect random slides and random components on
the slide. It might run fine 1, 2,3, 10, 25 times then have an issue
somewhere the next 1,2,3,10, 25 times, then be fine again for the next
.....etc

It is Powerpoint 2000 on Windows 98SE on a Pentium III 450Mhz with 128M RAM.

Can anyone offer any help how I can get it to consistantly work? Any idea
what could be the issue?

thanks

 

[Bill Dilworth]

It may be a system resource issue. PowerPoint is fairly CPU cycle
intensive, as are movie files. It may be that your system is trying to keep
up, but falling behind. When it gets far enough behind, it skips something
in order to catch up.

This is just a thought, and could be easily tested. Take the presentation
to a bigger computer and see how it does. I'd suggest a minimum of 1 GHz,
512 Meg RAM (basically double) and see if the show runs better and more
consistently. If it does, then the problem is the computer. You can try
reducing the screen resolution, using single screen monitor instead of dual,
and getting rid of ALL but the essential Windows programs running
(especially virus scanners). These steps may help and are worth a try.

--
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[Steve]

thanks for the info, I shall give it a try

It may be a system resource issue. PowerPoint is fairly CPU cycle
intensive, as are movie files. It may be that your system is trying to keep
up, but falling behind. When it gets far enough behind, it skips something
in order to catch up.

This is just a thought, and could be easily tested. Take the presentation
to a bigger computer and see how it does. I'd suggest a minimum of 1 GHz,
512 Meg RAM (basically double) and see if the show runs better and more
consistently. If it does, then the problem is the computer. You can try
reducing the screen resolution, using single screen monitor instead of dual,
and getting rid of ALL but the essential Windows programs running
(especially virus scanners). These steps may help and are worth a try.

--
Bill Dilworth, Microsoft PPT MVP
===============
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out www.pptfaq.com This link will yahoo.
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you think to ask them.

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