PowerPoint should let me set a slide to advance once a video ends.

[Curse You PowerPoint!]

I've recently been the victim of PowerPoint induced stress. The problem is
that I have a few video clips that take a short while to load from CD. The
problem comes because I have no way to advance the slide automatically AFTER
the clip ends. I can set a slide time, but then it advances whether or not
the clip is done. So, what I want to know how to do or see the ability to do
made, is have an option in either clide timings, video properties, or custom
animation to advance the slide after the clip finishes, with an option for a
slight delay.

 

[Bill Dilworth]

Interesting name, C. (don't know if it will help getting a solution, but
interesting),

I can explain why this is the way it is, but I suspect that is not what you
want. My guess is that you have entered your comments as a suggestion in
the web-based forum and it was posted to the newsgroup for others to "me,
too!" sign off on it.

It is a good and reasonable suggestion, but not likely to change in the near
future. Here is why. PowerPoint does not play your video file. In fact,
once PowerPoint has sent the request to the Operating System for the video
to be played, PowerPoint is unaware of the fate of that request/video/play
status. There is no communication back from any of the video player type
programs to PowerPoint to tell it when the video has ended, so there can be
no intelligent decision made as to when to advance the slide/animation.

If you are showing a continuous show, you may want to consider changing
formats and going with pure video (via WMM2 or other video software), but
would loose the rest of the PowerPoint functionality (linking, pausing,
animations, going back, etc.). All this depends on your use, of course.

Just some early morning thoughts,

Bill Dilworth
Microsoft PPT MVP Team
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