Playing Video in PowerPoint 97

[Chuck]

I'm trying to help a consultant put together a
presentation in powerpoint and he wants to use a few
animations. I have one animation that is 3 minutes long
and is 852x480 - it plays but just barely. It's all
choppy and skips throughout the entire animation - I've
tried playing it a few times to see if I could cache the
whole thing in but no luck.

He also has some wmv files he got from another
consultant. He can import them but they just show up as
a black box. Any thoughts? Any and all help would be
much appreciated.

 

[TAJ Simmons]

Chuck,

852x480......what data rate? or frames per second.... the choppy effect could be the computer can't keep up reading the
data / processing it / then displaying the video.

Cean out c:\windows\temp
Try a defrag
Give powerpoint less to do...What's happening on the very next slide/event? Keep it simple.
Does the video clip have audio?

Can you convert the video clip to MPEG1?

Cheers
TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp

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