Powerpoint cuts movies off...

[David Stewart]

I have a Powerpoint presentation that will intermixes informational slides
with several 2-3 minute mpeg video clips. The application is "hung on the
waiting room wall" on a 32" LCD monitor for a MediSpa... giving information,
showing before/after video, lather, rinse, repeat!

Everything works great... except that Powerpoint is transitioning to the
next slide before the previous video has finished playing, typically 7-14
seconds are getting cut off the end of each video - which is very annoying.

Any suggestions?

 

[Kathy Jacobs]

David,
Add an object to the slide. Move it off the visible part of the slide. Give
it an animation (any animation) and set that animation to happen "after
previous". The animation won't happen until the movie is done and the
transition won't happen until all the animations are done. Voila -
transitions won't happen until the movie is done.

--
Kathryn Jacobs, Microsoft MVP PowerPoint and OneNote
Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint - Available now from Holy Macro! Books
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[Seth!]

Wow. So this is the hack for what used to be a simple check box? In earlier
versions of PPT, there was a "While Playing: Pause slide show" option. I
tried Kathy's suggestion and it worked. But shouldn't there be a real menu
option for pausing the show until the clip is done?! Someone was asleep at
the wheel in Redmond, I think. Kinda wish I'd stuck with PPT97. The new
animation interface stinks.

Seth!