I use the same mpeg several times, will it save all of them?

[hlicitar]

Hi,
Like I said I use the same mpeg 5 or 6 times, it's a transition animation.
When I save it to a pps it saves all of them individualy. Can I some how
tell it to save one mpeg and use it when I need to, on certain slides,
instead of saving 5 avis? The file has to be small.

Thanks

 

[Sonia]

AVI's are not embedded, so it shouldn't increase the size of the
presentation size, though I'm not sure that I understand what you mean by
transition animation. Are these Crystal Graphics plugins? If so, I'll bow
out because I don't use them.
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Sonia, MS PowerPoint MVP Team
http://www.soniacoleman.com
(Tutorials and Autorun CD Project Creator)
PowerPoint Live! - Featured Speaker
Tucson, AZ; October 12-15, 2003

 

[hlicitar]

AVI's are not embedded, so it shouldn't increase the size of the
presentation size, though I'm not sure that I understand what you mean by
transition animation. Are these Crystal Graphics plugins? If so, I'll bow
out because I don't use them.
--

Sonia, MS PowerPoint MVP Team
http://www.soniacoleman.com
(Tutorials and Autorun CD Project Creator)
PowerPoint Live! - Featured Speaker
Tucson, AZ; October 12-15, 2003

I know I haven't explained my problem clear enough.

I have a book. First when you open the Show, you see mpeg animation of book
opening up. Then you see a jpg of that same book opened. On that jpg, there
is text added in PowerPoint. After it there's a mpeg of that book changing
page, and again a jpg with text, and so on. I think that every time I call
that mpeg of listing pages, it saves it into a PowerPoint Show file, like
there are dozen mpegs, instead of 2 or 3.

 

[Adam Crowley]

I know I haven't explained my problem clear enough.

I have a book. First when you open the Show, you see mpeg animation of book
opening up. Then you see a jpg of that same book opened. On that jpg, there
is text added in PowerPoint. After it there's a mpeg of that book changing
page, and again a jpg with text, and so on. I think that every time I call
that mpeg of listing pages, it saves it into a PowerPoint Show file, like
there are dozen mpegs, instead of 2 or 3.

I'm still not quite clear...how many MPEGs should there be?
When you insert one it inserts a link, rather than embedding the file.
If you use the same MPEG several times then you'll have several links to the
same MPEG rather than several instances of the file in your show. This
won't make any difference to the size of your presentation.
If you're noticing your file size increasing unreasonably try turning off
Fast Saves (Tools>Options>Save) as that can often increase file size on
every save, even if you make no changes.

 

[hlicitar]

I'm still not quite clear...how many MPEGs should there be?
When you insert one it inserts a link, rather than embedding the file.
If you use the same MPEG several times then you'll have several links to the
same MPEG rather than several instances of the file in your show. This
won't make any difference to the size of your presentation.
If you're noticing your file size increasing unreasonably try turning off
Fast Saves (Tools>Options>Save) as that can often increase file size on
every save, even if you make no changes.

Ok, then it's ok, it was just more a technical question, if it uses link
instead of embeding the file, than it's what I wanted. I just did some few
tests and thought of it.