PPT and Quicktime movies

[William Hambleton]

Hello.

Some time back we received our maintenance agreement upgrade for Office
2004. I wanted to deploy it to the floor but read of a number of problems
affecting PowerPoint and inserted Quicktime movies. Does anyone know if
these problems (slow replay I heard most) were corrected with the 11.1.1
release? Or of any new problems have surfaced. I would like to roll this out
to take advantage of the file-level PC compatibility of Word, but can't if
PPT does not properly play Quicktime movies.

Thanks.

 

[whang]

Hello.

Some time back we received our maintenance agreement upgrade for Office
2004. I wanted to deploy it to the floor but read of a number of problems
affecting PowerPoint and inserted Quicktime movies. Does anyone know if
these problems (slow replay I heard most) were corrected with the 11.1.1
release? Or of any new problems have surfaced. I would like to roll this out
to take advantage of the file-level PC compatibility of Word, but can't if
PPT does not properly play Quicktime movies.

Thanks.

 

[whang]

I have imported QT files and they do work, BUT it is very jittery and
many frames are skipped. I came to this website to find answers to the
same problem.

Q

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hi,

As of this moment the problems with QuickTime have not been taken care
of in an update.

-Jim

 

[Carlisle Percival]

I gave up on this long ago but here's a thought and I use it extensively.
It's ugly but it works. Under slideshow I think put in insert action
button. Make the action button a hyperlink. Hyperlink the button to your
quicktime file. Then when giving your show this will bring up your
quicktime viewer. Then, hit "apple" "F" and your quicktime movie will play
in full screen perfectly. When it's over click anywhere on the screen and
you'll be back to your Powerpoint show. It's not as fluid as on a windows
machine but for whatever reason the quicktime viewer works by itself fine
but not when inserted into a Powerpoint slide. Go figure.

Hope this helps some of you.

Carl Percival

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

That's a great suggestion, Carl. Thanks