Video clips - Full Screen and Window

[Guest]

When I look at my Power Point presentations on my laptop, the video clips
show up in windows. When I have my projector attached, the laptop still shows
it the same way, but the video switches to full screen, i.e. the laptop
monitor and the projector DO NOT show the same information.

I have no idea how to fix this.

 

[Guest]

I have the same problem. I too have tried everything I know. It used to be
the image on my laptop screen was the same as the projected image thru the
projector. Now the video plays as a small window as part of the powerpoint
slide on the laptop but the projected video goes to full screen? Any ideas
would be most helpful. Thanks

 

[Echo S]

You'll have to toggle the laptop so that the file is projected only through
the projector. The full-screen thing happens when you play the file on both
the laptop and the projector.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the input. I thought I already tried this but I will have to give
it another shot. Thanks again and I will let you know if it works. Is there
any way for both the projected image thru the projector and the image on the
laptop to be exactly the same without having the slide displayed on just one
or the other?

You'll have to toggle the laptop so that the file is projected only through
the projector. The full-screen thing happens when you play the file on both
the laptop and the projector.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

I have the same problem. I too have tried everything I know. It used to be
the image on my laptop screen was the same as the projected image thru the
projector. Now the video plays as a small window as part of the powerpoint
slide on the laptop but the projected video goes to full screen? Any ideas
would be most helpful. Thanks

 

[Guest]

I often use the extended desktop as a workaround for this. This is in the
Display Properties on the Settings tab. On most notebook systems you should
have 2 displays represented. 1 is the notebook display and 2 is whatever is
connected to the VGA port (monitor, projector). Click on display 2 and a
dialog usually comes up asking if you want to activate that display. Select
yes. If you don't get the dialog skip to next. In the lower left of the
Settings tab check the box "Extend my Windows desktop onto this monitor."
Click Ok and you now have one large desktop that uses both displays. You can
move the cursor off of the notebook display onto the other display. In
PowerPoint, go to Slide Show, Set Up Show, in the Multiple Monitors box drop
down select Monitor 2. That will tell PowerPoint to send the Slide Show
output to the 2nd monitor (projector). You will see the PowerPoint window on
the notebook display and the slide show on the external display. Use any
keyboard options to advance the slides. Clicking in the PowerPoint window
while in Slide Show activates the PowerPoint window but maintains the Slide
Show image. You can click on Resume Slide Show or click on the slide on
monitor 2 to reactivate the Slide Show window. This is a great way to edit
on the fly while you are in show by the way. Now, when you have a video that
should play at any size smaller than a slide, it will jump to full screen on
the notebook display but maintain the slide on the 2nd monitor. I hope I
laid that out well enough for you to follow.
A more solid solution that requires more hardware is to follow Echo's
solution but add another monitor in addition to the projector. Use a VGA
splitter to split the output from the laptop to the projector and to the
monitor (or you can just loop out of the projector of it has an output and go
to the monitor depending on how you have to set up). This way you don't have
to use the first workaround at all. You will be using a solid signal and see
exactly the same thing on both with nothing on the notebook display. Add a
mouse and keyboard and you can just close the laptop and use it as if you
have a desktop. That's not always practical but it makes for solid playback
in this situation.

...............TD

 

[Guest]

Has any one got any more help on thios problem below. I also am having
trouble with this issue. Presenting in 4 days, with lots of video content.

 

[TAJ Simmons]

graeme

see
Video/Movie plays full screen when projected
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00646.htm


Cheers
TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp

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