Keep slide from looping

[JClark]

PPT 2003
(I hope I'm not getting to be a pest.) I have animations in a series
of slides. The last item on each slide is an .mpg file. I have some
text lines to appear in sequence, then the mpg gets animated to
"appear" first, then to "play" with the"movie actions" command "on
click" then to stop.... For the "stop" I've tried "with previous" and
"after previous", but my problem is that after it stops, I click to go
on to the next slide, and instead the mpg starts up again.
Must I use stop "on click" to get it to stop looping? I'll try that,
but meanwhile, I'd like some advice about what is the best way to get
the mpg to stop and then enable me to click to go to the next slide.
Many thanks.

Jack

 

[Echo S]

Off the top of my head, I know you can move to the next slide by clicking
once to stop the MPG and clicking again to move to the next slide. When you
click the second time, make sure to click on the slide itself, not on the
video.

I did a set of slides a few months ago where this bit me -- the arrow ends
up in the middle of the slide, which is where my video was. So if my only
click was to move to the next slide when the movie was done, it re-started
the movie! I think this is what you're seeing.

If your movie isn't full-screen, you're okay because you'll have a non-movie
area to click on. If it is full-screen, you'll need to make it a little
smaller. And if that's the case, you can make a black box that covers your
slide and animate it in at the same time as the movie. And then also add an
exit animation to it so it goes away with the click. (Or actually, don't
worry about it exiting, because you're moving to the next slide anyway.)

 

[Echo S]

Oh, and nope, you're not getting to be a pest, Jack. In fact, I'd say you
seem to be getting up to speed with PPT very quickly, and that's a great
thing to see!

 

[JClark]

Oh, and nope, you're not getting to be a pest, Jack. In fact, I'd say you
seem to be getting up to speed with PPT very quickly, and that's a great
thing to see!

Echo:
You are, of course, correct. I was clicking on the video rather on the
"slide"! I was thinking the problem was caused by how I had chosen the
animation to be "with previous" or "after previous". But this was
spurious, and even more confusing when it wasn't consistent with
changes of "with" or "after". The seemingly erratic behavior confused
me even more. I made it more complex than it needed to be.
I thank you again.

Jack

 

[Echo S]

You are, of course, correct. I was clicking on the video rather on the
"slide"! I was thinking the problem was caused by how I had chosen the
animation to be "with previous" or "after previous". But this was
spurious, and even more confusing when it wasn't consistent with
changes of "with" or "after". The seemingly erratic behavior confused
me even more. I made it more complex than it needed to be.
I thank you again.

You're welcome, Jack. It's just lucky I ran into that same behavior recently
so I knew what was happening. (Well, lucky for you, but I could have done
without it! I don't like that my presenters have to move the mouse before
clicking.)