KR said:
To be honest, the resulting video wouldn't necessarily need to be "embedded"
in powerpoint- or even seamless- I wouldn't even mind if it brought up a
media player of some kind as long as it started playing the DVD in the
correct place, prompted by PPT code. Heck, I'd even be willing to turn it
off manually, once it was started.
Maybe you could start the video in its player, get to the correct spot, and
then pause it. Then use Alt+Tab from PPT to move over to the video? I kow
that you want it prompted by code, but...
I'm just trying to avoid potential copyright issues associated with making a
copy of the DVD clip for some internal training at our company (and since
that is still in a grey area of my minimal understanding of copyrights, I've
also contacted the copyright holder to ask for permission to use the
clip).
Good for you, Keith. That's very cool. And very smart, too!
If I link it to the DVD then anyone else who wants to use the training
course would have to have an original copy of the DVD, whereas if I
digitized the clip and embedded it, then I can't control what might happen
to it from there (people copying it and using it in other presentations,
etc.)
Gotcha. I think you may have to use a DVD-to-MPEG utility to create an MPEG
of the video and then edit out what you want. You'd have to put that video
file in the folder with the PPT file and then insert it into PPT. And the
video would have to be included in the folder with your presentation on the
server or wherever, as the video isn't actually embedded into the PPT file.
Here's an oddball thought, though -- wonder if you could use Camtasia
(
http://www.techsmith.com) to capture the portion of the DVD you want and
then save that as a SWF. Then you could use an Active X control to embed
that SWF into your PPT file. (
http://www.flashgeek.com for instrux.) And
*then,* assuming that you workplace is using PPT 2002 or 2003, you could put
a modify password on the file to prevent others from copying those slides
and using them in other presentations.
Hm... Dunno if that would work or not, partly because I don't know if you
can actually do captures of DVDs. I know I tried to do a screen shot of one
the other day -- just a plain ol' still screen shot, mind you! -- and I
wasn't able to.
So I guess the (revised) question is whether anyone has started any media
player from PPT, and if so, if there is any information in the public domain
(command switches, etc) to tell it specifically where to start playing.
You can link to bookmarks in Word files and things like that through Action
Settings (or is it through the Hyperlinks dialog?), but I've no idea how a
bookmark in a DVD is designated. And I somehow doubt that would get you to
the specific place anyway.
I'm just tossing out ideas here and hoping that someone with more info will
chime in...
--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com
Echo S said:
Wow, I doubt it. Playing DVD in PPT is iffy at best, and if you're asking
for specific positioning, well, I would imagine you may be out of luck.
Play DVDs in a presentation
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00146.htm
--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com
KR said:
Is there a way to link from PowerPoint to a specific location of a
DVD?
i.e.
if I can't "grab" and embed a video clip that I want to show on a
slide,
is
there any way to have it (on slide activate) to pull that clip
directly
from
the DVD drive, and (if possible) stop after a certain amount of time or
another "pointer" at a DVD location?
Thanks!!
Keith
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