Can anyone help me import video into my powerpoint presentation?

[OrthoPA]

Every time I try to import a mpeg video to my powerpoint presentation, the
program acts as if it is going to import it, but all I get on the slide is a
black box. When I right click on the box and click "play video", nothing
happens. The video was imported from a Sony Handycam and will readily play
when I open Windows Media Player - I just can't get it into the presentation
for some reason. Please help!!

 

[Kathy J]

OrthoPA,
When you add the video to a presentation, it is linked - not imported. This
is an important distinction. Also, PPT doesn't use Media Player to play the
videos, it uses the MCI player. So, your first thing to do is to find out if
the video plays using that player. The next thing to do is to check to see
if the path to the video is too long. After that, there are several other
things to test....Rather than going into all the details here, I am going to
send you to Sonia's site where you can find this tutorial:
http://www.soniacoleman.com/Tutorials/PowerPoint/multimedia.htm

Start there, then come back with more questions....

--
Kathryn Jacobs, Microsoft MVP PowerPoint and OneNote
Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint - Available now from Holy Macro! Books
Get PowerPoint answers at http://www.powerpointanswers.com
I believe life is meant to be lived. But:
if we live without making a difference, it makes no difference that we lived

 

[Sonia]

What is the file extension. I know you said mpeg, but is it .MPG or .AVI?
--

Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials
http://www.soniacoleman.com

 

[OrthoPA]

The file extension is .mpg. Thanks for your help...

 

[OrthoPA]

Thank you!!

OrthoPA,
When you add the video to a presentation, it is linked - not imported. This
is an important distinction. Also, PPT doesn't use Media Player to play the
videos, it uses the MCI player. So, your first thing to do is to find out if
the video plays using that player. The next thing to do is to check to see
if the path to the video is too long. After that, there are several other
things to test....Rather than going into all the details here, I am going to
send you to Sonia's site where you can find this tutorial:
http://www.soniacoleman.com/Tutorials/PowerPoint/multimedia.htm

Start there, then come back with more questions....

--
Kathryn Jacobs, Microsoft MVP PowerPoint and OneNote
Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint - Available now from Holy Macro! Books
Get PowerPoint answers at http://www.powerpointanswers.com
I believe life is meant to be lived. But:
if we live without making a difference, it makes no difference that we lived

 

[zying_704]

Powerpoint-to-dvd can convert powerpoint to mpeg and play it
nicely with backgound music. Moreover,it also includes slide duration,
narration record ,etc. More info www.powerpoint-to-dvd.com.

 

[Mainmanager]

I prefer http://www.geovid.com/presentation_to_video_converter to other
encoding tools.