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Mac Forum / Applications / PowerPoint / July 2006"Missing" clips - but they're there!
Hi folks New to this group - and VERY inexperienced with PP! I'm a video producer using Final Cut Pro actually, but don't hold that against me! I've been handed a CD with a PP presentation on it, with all the files on the CD. The files include a couple of .mov clips, but when I play the slide show the .mov clips just show the first (poster?) frame and then freeze for the duration of the clip, then go on to the next slide! The clips open fine in Quick Time, so they ARE there, but ... Help me, somebody! Please! I have to incorporate some QT footage from FCP into the PP and then voice-over/narrate for the client. Regards Roy Hi Roy, What version of PowerPoint are you using? Have you installed the updates? -Jim Gordon Mac MVP > Hi folks > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > Roy Thanks Jim 2004 Office, Auto-updated - presently 11.2.4 The presentation was given me on a CD, with the .ppt plus the individual .mov/MPEGs on the CD. I copied the whole lot into a new folder on my Desktop, from where all the clips opened in QT just fine without the CD! Roy > Hi Roy, > [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > > > > Roy Hi Roy, I'm not sure whether or not you're saying the problem has been solved. If the presentation was created using the proper method you should be able to open the presentation and the videos should play from the CD and from your hard drive. PowerPoint always makes links to video content, so it remembers the file path to the QT files. If PowerPoint's Save As PowerPoint Package feature was used, then you would copy the package folder and the links will always work. A manual way to get the same behavior is to start with an empty folder, put the QT media files into the folder, save the Presentation into the folder, and then make the links to the media. However, if any other method is used then the links created to the QT media files will be hard coded, meaning that the specific path name will be the full path name so it will only work on the machine on which the presentation was created. I suspect that is what happened in your case. If you can get the presentation's creator to use the Save As PowerPoint Package feature (which is not entire bug-free) then the presentation should work on all Macs. The bug is that sometimes all the media does not get copied into the package folder. The solution is to manually copy any any missing files into the folder. -Jim > Thanks Jim > [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] >>> >>> Roy |
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