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lorry
Once again hit the boards to complain bitterly.
1. Using ppt 2004 - REMADE many windows talks as video is NOT COMPATIBLE
when I move from ppt 2003 to mac ppt 2004. EVERY video reinserted and
animations redone.
2. Even once all this work has been accomplished I find that the video is
jerky. One pathetic (ie doesn't work) workaround from a microsoft
programmer oon these boards months ago - never heard more from her or from
microsoft again! Only thing that seems to work is to make my mpegs back
into AVIs (when the mpegs play they play fine the first time through and
then are jerky.....the mac is a G$ with 2G of ram so it aint the
machine.....also I can open any of the mepgs in quicktime and they play
normally ie its ppt!!)
3. I renamed some directories and bingo lose al the video again as it
turns out the links are absolute! (nb, the presentations were all made with
the ppt file in the same folder as the images and movies to be inserted)
4. GIVE up - save the presentation and its linked files as a package
(compression is off) and move them to my windows machine......dont work as
EVERY video tells me that I need quicktime and the YUV decompressor (the
movies are cinepak codecs!!)
5. Can use fixlinks to make the links pathless but the program cant play
them!!
Why am I a beta tester for microsoft?
Why does every mac mag that I have read advertise for microsoft in their
reviews by neglecting to mention that ppt 2004 IS NOT compatible with (even)
ppt 32003?
I havent even mentioned the problems with animations like font trnsparency.
VERY annoyed
Nb Steve Rindsberg - are you out there? I noted in a previous thread that
you had made some improvements to fixlinks - is there an update?
Lorry
1. Using ppt 2004 - REMADE many windows talks as video is NOT COMPATIBLE
when I move from ppt 2003 to mac ppt 2004. EVERY video reinserted and
animations redone.
2. Even once all this work has been accomplished I find that the video is
jerky. One pathetic (ie doesn't work) workaround from a microsoft
programmer oon these boards months ago - never heard more from her or from
microsoft again! Only thing that seems to work is to make my mpegs back
into AVIs (when the mpegs play they play fine the first time through and
then are jerky.....the mac is a G$ with 2G of ram so it aint the
machine.....also I can open any of the mepgs in quicktime and they play
normally ie its ppt!!)
3. I renamed some directories and bingo lose al the video again as it
turns out the links are absolute! (nb, the presentations were all made with
the ppt file in the same folder as the images and movies to be inserted)
4. GIVE up - save the presentation and its linked files as a package
(compression is off) and move them to my windows machine......dont work as
EVERY video tells me that I need quicktime and the YUV decompressor (the
movies are cinepak codecs!!)
5. Can use fixlinks to make the links pathless but the program cant play
them!!
Why am I a beta tester for microsoft?
Why does every mac mag that I have read advertise for microsoft in their
reviews by neglecting to mention that ppt 2004 IS NOT compatible with (even)
ppt 32003?
I havent even mentioned the problems with animations like font trnsparency.
VERY annoyed
Nb Steve Rindsberg - are you out there? I noted in a previous thread that
you had made some improvements to fixlinks - is there an update?
Lorry