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Comment on Animations For Prezi by andrea

andrea — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:42:49 +0000

This was an amazing help!:D

Comment on Getting Started With Video Backgrounds by Kylie

Kylie — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:21:42 +0000

HI
Just wanted to say I am loving the .flv content that I can use when I create my e-Learning as we do not use powerpoint.
Thanks

Comment on Getting Started With Video Backgrounds by Art Holden

Art Holden — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:17:02 +0000

Hi Pauline,

I think you are looking in the PowerPoint templates instead of the Video Background section. Here is a link to the Pond Ripple video background that is available in a Quicktime format for Mac. I have also sent you an email message if you have further questions.

Art Holden
PresenterMedia

Comment on Templates for PowerPoint 2003 by Art Holden

Art Holden — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:03:01 +0000

Hi Patrick, It is possible that you need to update PowerPoint 2003, since you say that the movie clip played poorly in 2003. Microsoft has released several service packs and updates for PowerPoint 2003. Possibly you are missing one of these? You can run Windows Update on your machine and install anything related to Microsoft Office.

If you insert (instead of paste) one of the video clips, (Insert/Movies and Sounds/Movie from File), into PowerPoint does it play in Slideshow mode (press F5)

Art Holden
PresenterMedia

Comment on Getting Started With Video Backgrounds by Pauline Dwyer

Pauline Dwyer — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:23:03 +0000

Good evening,
I have joined as a member today and just downloaded the Pond Ripple HD video but the only formats available were in Power Point and I am having a terrible job getting them to work on my Mac. The files once downloaded are greyed out, so I can’t access them. I have checked my PC as well and there is only the Power Point option there as well. Am I missing something somewhere. are you able to help please. If it is possible to demonstrate the same thing using a Mac it would be very helpful – suggestion.
Cheers
Pauline

Comment on Templates for PowerPoint 2003 by Patrick Gibney

Patrick Gibney — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:54:18 +0000

I have follwed this video to the letter of the directions provided to get animation to play using 2003 Powerpoint.

I can not get the animations to play even with the video’s in the same folder as the ppt file.

I can click on the movie clip and my media player plays the clip just fine. I have even tried pasting the movie clip into the slide and it plays it but it is really grainy and broken up in muticolor.

Any other tricks for getting the animation to work for 2003 Powerpoint.

Comment on Animated Templates and PowerPoint 2007 by Bruce Howard

Bruce Howard — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:02:08 +0000

Just updating the previous comment. My windows update was not updating Office products, so while I assumed I had the latest PowerPoint, I did not. Once I had SP2 installed, everything was fine. Thanks Art!

Comment on Animated Templates and PowerPoint 2007 by Bruce Howard

Bruce Howard — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:36:38 +0000

Hi Art,
I can create a new powerpoint and insert avi or wmv files and they play fine, but when I use your powerpoints, the animations do not play at all. I have done all that was suggested in this article and comments to fix it. You said, “If you are interested in the actual codec used, it is Windows Media Video 9.” I searched the Microsoft site and found too many links for this. Can you provide a download link?

Comment on Combine Slides from Multiple PowerPoint Templates by Rohit Arora

Rohit Arora — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:49:07 +0000

Thanks for helpful presentation…..u saved me from lot of trouble…

Comment on Getting Started With Video Backgrounds by Art Holden

Art Holden — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:33:46 +0000

Hi Joe, You can still use the video backgrounds in 4X3 aspect ratio presentations. Since the videos are 16×9, you have a couple of choices, you can leave space at the top or bottom of the video (like letterboxing), or you can allow the video to be full screen and then you would be cropping off the edges. I typically do the latter as cropping the edges doesn’t really matter.

Art Holden
PresenterMedia