Small slide show within a big slide show

[Airplane]

Hello everyone... I was wondering if anyone has embedded
a whole self-running slide show (.pps) into a place-
holder presentation. It's kinda like the picture-in-
picture feature on TV sets or inserting flash animation
into the presentation.

I tried inserting it as an object, resizing it to a 1/4
of the screen, framing and having it automatically shown
as a small animation WITHIN the main presentation.
The "small" show left the big show and run full-screen,
which is not what I intended. I tried DualPoint software
but still couldn't achieve the special effect (some
problems with security warning, cropping, unattractive
dark holes). Any pointers?

 

[Robert Lerner]

Why don't you just record the miniature presentation using something like
Camtasia and then play it in the main presentation as a movie object?

 

[Echo S]

If you don't need animation, you could use images of the small show.

Or you can put the small show into slide sorter view, copy a slide
there, then in the "large" file, paste it on a slide that's in normal
(edit) view. You'll get a little embedded slide which you can resize to
taste.

Otherwise, Robert's suggestion is probably the way to go.

 

[Airplane]

With the recording option, will the mini-show's
interactive buttons function or will it be more like an
straight-thru AVI movie?

Why don't you just record the miniature presentation using something like
Camtasia and then play it in the main presentation as a

movie object?

 

[Airplane]

Actually, I would like for the embedding to work more
like an animated interactive kiosk inside a larger self-
running show.... Is it at all possible with PowerPoint
2002 to have two presentations running, one inside
another, both retaining their interactive capabilities
during user interaction? Or is this a wish list item?

Airplane

 

[Echo S]

Probably more a wishlist item.

I wonder, though...

Shyam has an addin, LiveWeb, which may help here. If you were to publish
one presentation to HTML and then use LiveWeb to insert it into the
regular presenation, would that work? It would be in a browser window,
but I believe you'd maintain the interactivity, and I'd imagine (not
sure, though), that the size of that browser would be settable on the
slide.

Might be worth a try, anyway. http://www.mvps.org/skp

 

[Carl]

The only way I've been able to achieve this effect is to
create a picture frame on a master slide, and have
everything take place within the frame, which then looks
like a place holder.

Incidentally, if you need custom music for your
presentations, I can create it for you at very reasonable
rates.