How do i stop avi rewinding to first frame when using transitions?

[Guest]

When an avi file is inserted into a slide using Powerpoint 2003, the movie
rewinds to show the first frame before progressing to the next slide.
However, this only occurs when certain transitiions are used between slides
eg. 'fade smoothly'
If 'no transition' is used then the movie file plays and holds on the last
frame (as expected) until the next slide begins.
Is there any way around this problem as I would still like to use the 'fade
smoothly' transition between slides?
(I have checked that there are no 'rewind' boxed selected in the settings
and using the custom animation options to pause/stop also has no effect)

 

[TAJ Simmons]

Jonty,

I had someone email me some files awhile back - when they had the same
problem.

The files were this.... Files 1 and 2 were supposed to be the same
(1) a problem ppt file
(2) an OK ppt file
(3) a single AVI video file.

....Files 1 and 2 were supposed to be the same
Both ppt files were set to play the same video clip on slide 2.

The problem file played the video clip, and then showed the 1st frame (a
rewind) before moving on to slide 3.

The OK file did exactly as it was told.... played the video clip, then moved
onto slide 3 without showing the 1st frame.

On further inspection.....* The 2 ppt files are not identical. *

on the problem file.... slides 1 and slides 3 have a "fade smoothly" slide
transition.
on the OK file...all slides have "no transition" as their slide transition.

Changing slide 3 to "no transition" fixes the "first frame rewind" problem.

It appears that only certain "slide transitions" make the 1st frame (rewind)
re-appear. As 'box out' does not exhibit the problem, but "wheel clockwise",
along with "fade smoothly" does.

So the 'fade smoothly' causes the 'rewind' problem.

There may be away around this... by having a dummy slide after the video
clip.

Cheers
TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp

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