Music and video presentation from one machine to another

[Ben]

Help!!! Help!!!!!! For the last 10 hours I built a 60 slide presentation on my desk top. The presentation was then saved to a disc and the disc tested and it works flawlessly. I then put the disc into the IBM Thinkpad that has to be used in my presentation tomorrow and the presentation works great except for the music and video that was added to some of the slides does not play!!! I have to put on this presentation in the morning and it is now 2:15 am eastern standard time! Someone please help me to repair this problem! It has to be something simple but I can not figure it out!! Thanks for the return in advance!! Ben

 

[Sonia]

Did you include the music and video files on the disk? Are you playing it
in PowerPoint or the Viewer? Which version?
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Help!!! Help!!!!!! For the last 10 hours I built a 60 slide presentation

on my desk top. The presentation was then saved to a disc and the disc
tested and it works flawlessly. I then put the disc into the IBM Thinkpad
that has to be used in my presentation tomorrow and the presentation works
great except for the music and video that was added to some of the slides
does not play!!! I have to put on this presentation in the morning and it
is now 2:15 am eastern standard time! Someone please help me to repair this
problem! It has to be something simple but I can not figure it out!!
Thanks for the return in advance!! Ben

 

[Ben]

Hey Sonia! Thanks for replying!! The disc is complete and plays perfectly through the desk top computer that I originally saved from. The sound plays on cue and the 5 minute video plays on cue during slide 44 but when I pull the disc out of the desk top and load it in the IBM Thinkpad the music and video do not play. The rest of the presentation works fine. The special effects, animation, etc. all work fine, just no inserted songs or video.... Both PPT versions are 2002 PPT. I am alos playing it by opening up PPT and then loading up the presentation and starting it as you would if it were saved on the hard drive.... Help!!

 

[Sonia]

But you didn't answer my question - - did you include the music and video
files on the disk? When you distribute a presentation you must also
distribute any linked files. Media files are linked, not embedded in the
presentation, with the exception of WAV files sometimes.

Your presentation will run fine from the disk on your desktop because the
media files are on the hard drive and PowerPoint can find them.

See the following:

Links break when I move presentation (and at other times)
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00155.htm

Hey Sonia! Thanks for replying!! The disc is complete and plays

perfectly through the desk top computer that I originally saved from. The
sound plays on cue and the 5 minute video plays on cue during slide 44 but
when I pull the disc out of the desk top and load it in the IBM Thinkpad the
music and video do not play. The rest of the presentation works fine. The
special effects, animation, etc. all work fine, just no inserted songs or
video.... Both PPT versions are 2002 PPT. I am alos playing it by opening
up PPT and then loading up the presentation and starting it as you would if
it were saved on the hard drive.... Help!!

 

[Ben]

I guess I am not sure what you are asking Sonia, sorry... All I did was to go to insert, movies and sound from file, choose that file and it automatically inserted it into my slide... It may be doing just that, looking for it on my hard drive to play it... How do I get it into the disc permantly so it will play on the IBM? Thanks for you patience! I will be looking at your included link while I await your reply.... By the way, your "studio" is georgous!

 

[Sonia]

I know that it says "Insert", but that's misleading. What is inserted is a
link - - a pointer to the file. The presentation does not include the video
and music files. They remain as standalone files that are opened by
PowerPoint when the presentation is played. PowerPoint looks at the link
and determines where to find the media file. It then locates it, opens it,
and plays it from within your presentation.

So when you copy your presentation to the disk also copy the video and audio
files. By the way, don't ever save a presentation directly to removable
media (floppy, zip, etc.). Your presentation is likely to become unuseable.

I guess I am not sure what you are asking Sonia, sorry... All I did was

to go to insert, movies and sound from file, choose that file and it
automatically inserted it into my slide... It may be doing just that,
looking for it on my hard drive to play it... How do I get it into the disc
permantly so it will play on the IBM? Thanks for you patience! I will be
looking at your included link while I await your reply.... By the way, your
"studio" is georgous!

 

[Ben]

Thanks Sonia! I will take your advice and see if I can get the video and sound off of the desk top and load it in the lap top so maybe the links will hook up... Have a good day!! Ben

 

[TAJ Simmons]

Ben,

One other thing to be aware of....

If the videos and sounds where originally in this directory

c:\thisiswhere\Ikeepmystuff\videos

Then be sure to make the same drive and directory structure on the new pc match exactly

Otherwise powerpoint may not find your videos or sounds when it comes to show time

Cheers
TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp

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[ripo]

Ben, your problem is much like mine. See "Powerpoint viewer does not run presentations as planned".
Like you I spent hours making a ppt just like I wanted that ran fine in "view slide show" of my power point program.
I then copied all files including the sounds video clips, photos to a disk along with the ppt file. The sounds and video
did not work properly in Power Point viewer 2003 on another PC. So I tried opening the same file from the viewer
on my PC where I composed the ppt file and the same thing happened - the slides were all there but zipped through
too fast and none of the video clips would play. Also all the sound files were out of sync with the slides even though
they worked perfect from original the powerpoint program.
Russ

 

[Sonia]

According to his posts, Ben is not using the Viewer. He's using PowerPoint
and "The special effects, animation, etc. all work fine, just no inserted
songs or video", Different issue.

Ben, your problem is much like mine. See "Powerpoint viewer does not run presentations as planned".
Like you I spent hours making a ppt just like I wanted that ran fine in

"view slide show" of my power point program.

I then copied all files including the sounds video clips, photos to a disk

along with the ppt file. The sounds and video

did not work properly in Power Point viewer 2003 on another PC. So I

tried opening the same file from the viewer

on my PC where I composed the ppt file and the same thing happened - the

slides were all there but zipped through

too fast and none of the video clips would play. Also all the sound files

were out of sync with the slides even though