Cant stop the video pause before transitions

[fervor]

I am franticly looking for a way to get power point to advance a
slide that has a movie playing on it with one click. In my
presentation, each slide has a looping movie. When the time comes to
advance to the next slide, I have to hit 'next' twice. Once to
pause the movie, and then a second time to advance to the next slide. I
have tried removing the trigger that pauses the video on a click, which
gets added by default when you insert a video, but it still pauses the
video the first time you try to advance to the next slide.

I'm using PowerPoint 2003 w/Office One PowerShow.

Any help would be most appreciated,
Thanks,
Jemiah
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[John Wilson]

Videos are actually played in windows therefore the first click will never
control ppt - sorry!

 

[John Wilson]

As (nearly) always there is a way if you have a devious mind!!!!

On the video slide in custom anims > "timing" set the show to "repeat till
end of slide" and in "effect options" to "stop playing after 2 slides". Make
the next slide blank and set the transition to 0 seconds. You can leave the
trigger if you want but make your click off the video

 

[fervor]

Thanks for the advice. I only have one more rehearsal before the
performances start for this show. It's a live color shadow puppet
show and all the backgrounds are video. There's no time to convert
all the transitions over to your suggestion (which is very devious and
I love it). In future, I will try that out with a template. It sounds
like you know a lot about PowerPoint so please tell me your opinion on
this; how is it that it is so bad at handling video? I've have other
problems like it flashing to the first frame during a fade and things
like that. Is there some other program that MS just doesn't want to
compete with or what?

Thanks for the suggestion,
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[John Wilson]

Powerpoint uses a pretty old part of windows to play video. I agree its due
an update!