Using Flash movies in corporate and sales presentations

[nahim.facer]

Hello All,
Can someone give me some advice; the company that I work for has
started to use flash animations in its presentations. (Macromedia Flash
Movie, PowerPoint Presentations .ppt and .pps).

The problem is that we have thousands of people all using the
presentations, which are now calling the helpdesk with problems, such
as, the flash movies are not playing correcting, how do I print the
flash movies, how do I insert new flash movies etc. for some reason
this just seem all really hard to do in PowerPoint, is this just us?

Does anyone have any recommendations on how it can be made easier, we
need a simple way to use flash movie in PowerPoint, which can work on
all versions of Windows and Office.

Thanks

Nanhim

 

[MartaBajoras]

Hello Nahim,

We had the same issues. The cause is simple, flash or .swf movies
create a real WOW factor and are great for creds or sales
presentations, but PowerPoint itself has no build-in controls for using
this type of presentation element.

You really need to get a third party Flash tool which works in
PowerPoint, we tried a few free or shareware tools and addins, the one
that worked best was the Flash Toolbar. The reason why it worked so
well, seems to be, that these guys build normally build complete
presentation systems for major companies, but have started to spin-off
some of their corporate tools as small standalone tools, so they really
do work and are safe. The Flash Toolbar lets you do all the main things
you need when using flash in presentation, e.g. insert movie, change
the flash movie settings, print / email bits of the flash, auto rewind
flash etc.

Check it out it worked well for us.

http://www.internalsupport.net/in-shop-flash.html

Marta

 

[nahim.facer]

Hi Marta, thanks for your quick reply.

I have just installed the tool direct from their website, it installed
in seconds and worked immediately.

It does all the things that are people are complaining about and is
easy to use.

Any ideas what they charge for an unlimited version of the tool, they
only have a single or a 10 user versions price on the site? Will they
do a deal?

Thanks for the info.

Nahim

 

[Roger McLeod]

We've been using hits for a while now so we actually paid up and bought
a site license which worked out pretty cheap considering the ammount
features we're gonna be able to incorporate into our work.

Really cool tool!

 

[MartaBajoras]

Hi Nahim,
sorry for the slow reply, been on my hols!

I can't get the figure, but the accounts said it worked out less that
an a dollar per person, for our size company. We have just over ten
thousand people.

Marta