How to insert a movie clip into powerpoint

[Guest]

how can I insert "Real" or "Quick Time" movie clips into power point?

 

[Sonia]

You can't insert Real Media files in PowerPoint. Quick Time files from a
version later than 2.5 are also a no-no. See
http://www.indezine.com/products/powerpoint/ppquicktime.html.
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Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials
http://www.soniacoleman.com

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

You can't insert Real Media files in PowerPoint. Quick Time files from a
version later than 2.5 are also a no-no. See
http://www.indezine.com/products/powerpoint/ppquicktime.html.

For my own edufication: assuming you had QT installed, couldn't you insert
QTpies as an object rather than as a movie?

Granted you'd have to accept that:

- Viewer 2003 will ignore them
- Computers w/o QT won't run them at all
- Even PPT2003 on your own system, with QT, will natter at you about viruses
every time you click one of them

Kind of like saying "Yes, I know I'd die of dehydration, if not snake bite, if
I try to unicycle across Death Valley, but it *can* be done, right? Right?"

 

[Sonia]

I'll defer to Mr. Bajaj who seems to agree with you:

As such, PowerPoint versions 97, 2000, 2002 and 2003 allow you to insert
QuickTime movies upto version 2.5 or any QuickTime movie that's rendered with
the QuickTime Cinepak codec - unfortunately, newer QuickTime formats are not
natively supported. In such a scenario, you can either link to a QuickTime movie
as an object or convert your QuickTime movie to the AVI format or an older
QuickTime format - we'll examine all these techniques on this page.

I tend to think in "distribution" mode (the caretaker in me), since I constantly
run into unhappy people who expect everything to work everywhere.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

OK, no argument there then.

Basically, if you have a program on the system that knows what to do with a given
file type, you can insert the file into PPT as an object. As long as it's your one
computer AND the program does what you want it to (you have no control over it from
PPT other than firing it off) you're ok.

But ...

I tend to think in "distribution" mode (the caretaker in me), since I constantly
run into unhappy people who expect everything to work everywhere.

Yup. If you can dress it up but can't take it out, it ain't much good on a date.