Creating relative path names for PowerPoint movie clips

[Carmen Fredricks]

Hello there,

I've created a presentation that uses about 30 .mpg movie clips. I
burned the presentation and all the movie clips onto a disk because
I'd like to send it to our clients. The problem I've encountered is
that in pointing the presentation to the right place to access the
movie clips, the path names are absolute and do not work on other
peoples' computers. In other words, when I inserted clips, the source
was the CD (the E: Drive on my computer). When someone else whose
CD-ROM drive is a D: drive (for instance) opens it up and tries to
play the movie clips, it says it can't locate them because it's
looking for them on the E: drive, not the D: drive.

Any suggestions for inserting/pointing/accessing my clips so I can
give the presentation to other people on a disk and it will seemlessly
play the clips when they get to those slides (and they won't have to
repoint each slide)?

Thanks!
Carmen

 

[Michael Koerner]

Put all your .mpg files into the same folder as your presentation before you insert them.

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Hello there,

I've created a presentation that uses about 30 .mpg movie clips. I
burned the presentation and all the movie clips onto a disk because
I'd like to send it to our clients. The problem I've encountered is
that in pointing the presentation to the right place to access the
movie clips, the path names are absolute and do not work on other
peoples' computers. In other words, when I inserted clips, the source
was the CD (the E: Drive on my computer). When someone else whose
CD-ROM drive is a D: drive (for instance) opens it up and tries to
play the movie clips, it says it can't locate them because it's
looking for them on the E: drive, not the D: drive.

Any suggestions for inserting/pointing/accessing my clips so I can
give the presentation to other people on a disk and it will seemlessly
play the clips when they get to those slides (and they won't have to
repoint each slide)?

Thanks!
Carmen

 

[wes]

Check the box for a relative path. Put all the files in
the same directory. A subdirectory may work also.

 

[Carmen Fredricks]

Thanks Sonia and Micheal for you suggestions! For some reason I
thought I had done this, but I guess I hadn't exactly followed those
steps. Worked beautifully!!