Placing a Flash movie

[Storm]

I am using OS X 10.3.9 and PowerPoint X - is it possible to place a
flash movie into a PowerPoint slide?
I cannot make it function - neither using .swf or .fla

Any solutions ?

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hi,

PowerPoint itself does not handle flash files. Instead, it hands the job
to QuickTime. QuickTime can play some flash files but not all of them
(check the Apple QuickTime site for specifics about which files are
supported).

The work-around is to link to the swf file and let Flash or Flash Player
do the work instead of QuickTime. Unfortunately your flash item will not
play within the PowerPoint window using this technique, but at least it
will play.

-Jim

 

[Storm]

Thank you Jim - I think I will try exporting an .avi file and place that
instead. I'll give it a try, but I am afraid that my fadings perhaps
will apear less smooth.

 

[Storm]

Hi,

PowerPoint itself does not handle flash files. Instead, it hands the job
to QuickTime. QuickTime can play some flash files but not all of them
(check the Apple QuickTime site for specifics about which files are
supported).

I tried but the result wasn't nice.

The work-around is to link to the swf file and let Flash or Flash Player
do the work instead of QuickTime. Unfortunately your flash item will not
play within the PowerPoint window using this technique, but at least it
will play.

Alas - I am creating a presentation which is supposed to be selvrunning
- looping. My flash file has to play inside the PowerPoint window.
I have heard something about a Visual Basic script that can solve this.

Can anyone help me any further?

 

[Storm]

Found this tutorial:

http://www.flashgeek.com/tutorials/01_requirements_01.asp

Any warnings or recommendations?

 

[Trance]

I am using OS X 10.3.9 and PowerPoint X - is it possible to place a
flash movie into a PowerPoint slide?
I cannot make it function - neither using .swf or .fla

Any solutions ?

Because QuickTime handles flash files in ppt, the limitation is that QT
can work with Macromedia Flash 5. If you can resave the flash file as a
version 5, it will work.

 

[Storm]

Because QuickTime handles flash files in ppt, the limitation is that QT

can work with Macromedia Flash 5. If you can resave the flash file as a
version 5, it will work.

Thank you so much - it works - but noth as smoothly as in my Flash file
- my Movie Clips seems to stand a moment as they stop playing.

But thank you - the visual basic solutions seems only to be possible if
I go to a windows machine.

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hi,

You are correct on all counts.

The link you provided discusses using open source Active-X with
PowerPoint. So far the open source community hasn't been able to come
up with a Macintosh version of Active-X, so at the moment any Active-X
stuff works only in Microsoft Windows operating systems

AVI file format does play within the PowerPoint window. For
cross-platform use that's the format I suggest (even though the file
formats are hugeand as you noticed the quality is not superb.

=Jim