Pinnacle Studio 9 MPEGs not play in Slide Show mode in Powerpoint

[GregoMiles]

I have a Dell Dimension 8200 running XP Pro SP 2, Pentium 4, 2.53 GHz, 1 gig
RAM, and plenty of disk space. I have a Dazzle DVC150 and have MovieStar5
software installed. I just installed Studio version 9.1 to take advantage of
its "advanced editing features." I have installed all of the updates
available on Pinnacle’s web site, and almost everything seems to work very
well. I may well learn to like this product, if I can get one thing fixed.

My problem is this. When rendering an MPEG with Studio, it will play fine
except when in Slide Show mode in PowerPoint. I can even get it to play when
in “regular†mode in PowerPoint by “right-clicking†and selecting play video.
Is this a PowerPoint issue? One other thing: If I open the just-rendered
MPEG within Dazzle Movie Star, do no editing but just re-render it as an
MPEG2 within Movie Star, it WILL play while in Slide Show mode in PowerPoint.

Obviously, I would rather not have to make opening Movie Star a regular
final step of rendering movies in Studio, but right now I have no choice.
Please, any help you can provide will be greatly appreciated.

 

[TAJ Simmons]

GregoMiles,

Perhaps point 6 applies to your setup....
http://www.echosvoice.com/tshoot_video2.htm

Cheers
TAJ Simmons
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[GregoMiles]

OK, I need some hand-holding here. If the problem is with a CODEC that has
been over-written, I would rather not have to pay $149 for one that works
without a watermark. Am I missing something? Shouldn't I just be able to
recover a CODEC that was overwritten and put it back in place? Help, please.
Thanks.

 

[TAJ Simmons]

See the info about codecs and where to get them here..
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00099.htm

Cheers
TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp

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[Echo S]

I understand that you don't want to pay $149 for the Main Concept codec,
which the Pinnacle product may have overwritten.

You might be able to restore it by doing a repair of Windows or returning to
your last known good configuration using the Restore Point option. Or
perhaps updating Windows Media Player would put it back to rights. (Can you
tell that I'm really not sure?)

Regardless, I'd probably contact the Pinnacle support staff and see if they
have any suggestions. As you know, yours isn't the first problem we've seen
with PPT and Pinnacle products, so I'd hope that the Pinnacle people are
aware of the issues. What would be even nicer is if they have a fix for the
problem.

 

[Echo S]

Grego, I'm still trying to find info on this one for you. Can you let me
know if the MPEG plays properly on a machine where Pinnacle isn't installed?

 

[J Barton]

I have found that when rendering the mpg file (in edit) using Studio 9 under
the settings choose "videoDV" only. Many other choices exist but this codec
is the only one supported and playback is possible in PowerPoint 2003 I have
found. It renders faster than others, however less compression. It is the
only solution I have found and I have pulled my hair out trying to solve
this one.
jb