videos dont play properly in power point

[daviddoria]

I made some short clips and saved them to avi (I forget which codec, its on a
different computer). I read that a good test if it is "power point
compatible" is to open it with media player classic (start -> run -> mplayer2
(with windows XP)). It opened and played with no problems. The thing is, when
I add it to a presentation, the video plays (ie doesn't complain about a
missing codec), but it is has big black squares covering most of it!! I have
a very fast computer and a very good video card so I can't imagine it has
anything to do with the hardware (I also run lots of video/photo editing
software with no problems)?

1) what is the proper/best codec to use?
2) why would it do this ? (since I don't think it even is a codec thing)

Any input would be great!

Thanks,

Dave

 

[daviddoria]

It seems a bit silly that I'd have to buy something to make this work with
something I already bought. Is there any other way to make this work better?

 

[Austin Myers]

Reading this tutorial may help.
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http://www.playsforcertain.com/tutorial.htm


--
Austin Myers
AT&W Technologies

Provider of PFCPro, PFCMedia and PFCExpress
www.playsforcertain.com

 

[Jean-Pierre Forestier [MVP[]

Try to tranform yoour avi file into wmv file (with Windows Movie Maker) anad
insert this last file into PPT

 

[TAJ Simmons]

Dave

see also
Troubleshooting Movies / videos in PowerPoint
http://www.echosvoice.com/tshoot_video2.htm

cheers
TAJ Simmons
Microsoft Powerpoint MVP

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