Newbie question on playing movies

[GBH]

This is Powerpoint 2002 on WinXP Pro Sp2.

I have 4 Windows movie files I want to play sequentially, wrapped in a PPT
automated presentation. Thus far I have one movie per slide. I have explored
all the settings for playing movies but cannot get powerpoint to move to the
next slide once the movie finishes without clicking. Am I attempting the
impossible?

TIA

Geoff

 

[Austin Myers]

Have you set your slide to "advance after xxx seconds"?

Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Solutions to Multimedia in PowerPoint www.pfcmedia.com

 

[GBH]

Austin
appreciate the quick response!
Yes, tried that, and it cuts the movie at the xxx seconds mark ....

Geoff

 

[Austin Myers]

Then you need to set the time a few seconds longer than the video duration.


Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Solutions to Multimedia in PowerPoint www.pfcmedia.com

 

[GBH]

Austin

Good answer, I had thought of that previously but was searching for a more
automated method. But no problem, I guess I'll do that.

thanks again

GBH

 

[GBH]

Austin

I stand corrected ... setting the slide advance DOES advance xxx seconds
AFTER the movie finishes. I think I got myself into a knot by using ultra
short clips whilst testing ......

Again appreciate the quick response

Geoff

 

[Austin Myers]

If you want to make it behave more along the lines of what I think you are
after here is another method.


Assuming you have a video clip of say 60 seconds on the slide and it plays
automatically.

Create an object (doesn't really mater what, lets say a circle) and it to
"Appear" "After Previous" with a time of zero seconds. That means it will
appear immediately after the video is done playing. Now set the outline and
fill of the object (circle?) to invisible (none).

Next step is to set the slide transition to advance automatically after zero
seconds.

Sounds goofy I know so let me walk you through how it works.

The slide can't transition untill all appear animations for objects have
happened. The appear animation can't happen until the video is done
playing. Once both are completed the transition happens zero seconds after
the object has appeared (even though you don't see it.)

The advantage of this is that your transition to the next slide will happen
*almost* instantly after the video plays regardless of the machine the
presentation is played on or video length. (length = duration)

Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Solutions to Multimedia in PowerPoint www.pfcmedia.com

 

[GBH]

Yes, good suggestion, nice quick transition from clip to clip .. many
thanks!

Geoff

 

[Austin Myers]

Glad it helped.



Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Solutions to Multimedia in PowerPoint www.pfcmedia.com