PowerPoint 2003 and video

[Guest]

When inserting an .avi into a presentation the video will just show a black
box. I've already tried shortening the file path, as recommended in earlier
the posts that addressed this problem.

 

[Austin Myers]

Ned,

Read this and see if it helps.

http://www.playsforcertain.com/tutorial.htm#Multimedia_in_Microsoft_PowerPoint


Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Provider of PFCPro, PFCMedia and PFCExpress
www.playsforcertain.com

 

[Guest]

The problem is PowerPoint, which seems to be very picky with videos. AVI
videos won't run in every PC configuration, so there's only two things that
will definitely work: MPEG & WMV.
You could try the trialware – VidLogo in order to convert your AVI to MPEG
or WMV. This would be the best choice, I guess.