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Mac Forum / Applications / PowerPoint / June 2005PowerPoint & wmv files ?
Can someone tell me why you cannot put ( insert ) a wmv file into PP, yet you can do it in the 'Windows' version? Is there a way I can convert to wmv file into Quicktime or someother format that the Mac PP version can use ? Hope someone can help. Most annoying Steve It doesn't work because PowerPoint depends on QuickTime to handle multimedia objects. QuickTime cannot play Windows Media files. Some third party products such as Flip4Mac <http://www.flip4mac.com/wmv.htm> offer codecs with the ability to play Windows Media Player files within QuickTime. This site has some FAQs for Windows Media Player for Mac: <http://www.cortig.net/wordpress/?page_id=30> On 6/24/05 7:08 AM, in article 1119614930.772020.183600@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com, "Steve" <streble@glos.ac.uk> wrote: > Can someone tell me why you cannot put ( insert ) a wmv file into PP, > yet you can do it in the 'Windows' version? [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Steve  SignatureMickey Stevens (Microsoft MVP for Office:mac) PowerPoint FAQ featuring PowerPoint:mac: <http://www.pptfaq.com/> Entourage Help Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/> > Can someone tell me why you cannot put ( insert ) a wmv file into PP, > yet you can do it in the 'Windows' version? That's because it's not natvely supported by Quicktime (the opposite with QuickTime movies on Windows is also true). You could try using the WM QuickTime codecs Flip4Mac released a while ago - it might do the trick (I haven't tried). > Is there a way I can convert to wmv file into Quicktime or someother > format that the Mac PP version can use ? Flip4Mac makes 2 version of their codecs: one that only reads, and one that reads and converts. If you get the second one, you should be able to transcode the files the way you want. Corentin Signature--- Mac:MS MVP (Francophone) --- http://www.mvps.org - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com MVPs are not MS employees - Les MVP ne travaillent pas pour MS Remove "NoSpam" to e-mail me - Retirez "NoSpam" pour m'écrire I'm getting a little confused here with all of these 'replys' Let's start again........ In 'Powerpoint for Windows' you can 'insert' a "WMV" file - IN Powerpoint for Mac you cannot insert a "WMV" file ???? I have made no mention of Quicktime, forget Quicktime for the momoent. IF I cannot 'insert' a "WMV" file into Powerpoint ( for Mac ), what can I do. Is there a way to convert the "WMV" file into something else that I can then 'insert' into PP ( for Mac ), or are we just stuck ???? Steve > In 'Powerpoint for Windows' you can 'insert' a "WMV" file - IN > Powerpoint for Mac you cannot insert a "WMV" file ???? I have made no > mention of Quicktime, forget Quicktime for the momoent. No. You can't insert a WMV file on Mac. You can't forget Quicktime because on a Mac, it's what handles movies and sounds for PowerPoint just like the MCI Media player does under Windows. If it won't play in QT, it won't play in PowerPoint. You'll need to follow up the links Mickey and Corentin replied with to learn how to get WMVs to play in Quicktime (so that they CAN play in PPT Mac) If size isn't an issue, try AVI instead. ================================================ Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ |
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