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OK, Mixed enviornment here. Macs and PCs. Our creative department builds presentations on a Mac, and gives them to our sales group that is PC. Usually works well, but lately we have been using lots of Videos. We have been using visual hub to translate quicktime files to WMV files and inserting them on the PC. However when we have to go back to the Mac and do major edits on slides, the Mac application decides to change the presentations so they are using Quicktime. We don't need to view the presentation on a Mac, we simply need to make the edits. When we did this we started getting the error that a decompressor was needed. So.. any thought on how to do this without running into these problems? I know what would be so peach king.... it would be to allow the Mac to embed WMV files, and have them work cross platform, but my guess is that will never happen. I am open to your suggestions (and no... taking the creative group to PC is not an option) and helpful hints. Thanks for all your help. John Gibson > So.. any thought on how to do this without running into these > problems? I know what would be so peach king.... it would be to allow > the Mac to embed WMV files, and have them work cross platform, but my > guess is that will never happen. Flip4Mac offers solutions to view (free) and encode/transcode (shareware) WMV files straight in QuickTime. With he Flip4Mac codecs installed you can play WMV files in PPT. With the Pro version you can edit them as well. Give it a try, it might just be what you are looking for, Corentin  Signature--- Mac:MS MVP (Francophone) http://www.cortig.net/wordpress/ --- 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 On May 29, 12:00 pm, Corentin Cras-Méneur <korvent...@NoSpam.mvps.org> wrote: > In article <1180457030.715825.162...@m36g2000hse.googlegroups.com> > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > -- > --- Mac:MS MVP (Francophone) http://www.cortig.net/wordpress/--- 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 will check this out... but my problem is that when we go back to PC I need to make sure the video's work. John > On May 29, 12:00 pm, Corentin Cras-Méneur <korvent...@NoSpam.mvps.org> > wrote: [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > > John Ok... here is a strange one... ON the Mac with Flip4mac installed, I can't insert the WMV files... Just won't allow me. If I change the name to .mov, then I get an error that file is not the right type. So... if you are using flip4mac, what do you do in order to put your movies into Powerpoint if they are WMV? > Ok... here is a strange one... > > ON the Mac with Flip4mac installed, I can't insert the WMV files... > Just won't allow me. Can you play the file in QuickTime player? Corentin Signature--- Mac:MS MVP (Francophone) http://www.cortig.net/wordpress/ --- 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 On May 29, 2:01 pm, Corentin Cras-Méneur <korvent...@NoSpam.mvps.org> wrote: > In article <1180463856.693075.161...@q69g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Corentin Yes, they do play in Powerpoint. >> Can you play the file in QuickTime player? >> >> Corentin > Yes, they do play in Powerpoint. > ??? I'm lost... I guess you meant QuickTime player (or I don't see what the problem is). I played around with this. It appears to be a stupid restriction on the PPT side. The application cehckes the file extension and claims it is not supported - yet is I rename the file and replace the .wmv with a .avi, I can import the video in a slide and play it without any problem. That's simply ridiculous :-< I made a test back in Windows vista with PPT 2007 and everything played jsut fine with the video renamed as .avi. The problem is that if I do that, the PPT file becomes useless in Windows. Windows PPT 2007 asks me for a QuickTime decompressor (and WMP for Windows complains that the file type and content type don't match since we now have a WMV file with an AVI extension). The only workaround I found was to keep the video in WMV and insert it in the PPT presentation from Windows. I transfered the two files (PPT and WMV) back on the Mac and then I see the video when I open the presentation. Corentin Signature--- Mac:MS MVP (Francophone) http://www.cortig.net/wordpress/ --- 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 On May 29, 3:43 pm, Corentin Cras-Méneur <korvent...@NoSpam.mvps.org> wrote: > In article <1180466384.979943.236...@q69g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> > [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > -- > --- Mac:MS MVP (Francophone) http://www.cortig.net/wordpress/--- 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 Yeah... I meant Quicktime.... Sometimes my brain doesn't work... The only solution at this point is to simply use the PC systems to do the edits. One of these days there will truly be a X platform solution where this **** doesn't happen. John > One of these days there will truly be a X platform solution where > this **** doesn't happen. Well when PPT 2004 came out, there was no solution to offer support for WMV in QuickTime. PPT entirely relies on QT on MacOS X to display graphics and media so I understand that this situation wasn't supported.I wish an update had taken care of this issue since then though :-\ Corentin Signature--- Mac:MS MVP (Francophone) http://www.cortig.net/wordpress/ --- 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 will check this out... but my problem is that when we go back to > PC I need to make sure the video's work. If the video is still in WMV, there is no reason why it shouldn't work, Corentin Signature--- Mac:MS MVP (Francophone) http://www.cortig.net/wordpress/ --- 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 John, Do you think you can help me? I just had purchased student and teacher for a presentation I needed to get done. I completed the project that starts w/ a little sound and has a few animations. I want to know how to export it so that, when I make it to a simple .mov, all timing will be on point and animations will simply function when they're suppose to. I've ran into some problems when simply trying to make a .mov so that I can start copying this presentation to other CD's to distribute to my sales people that predominately work on PC's without having PowerPoint on their machines. Please advise how to make my movie simply export to a timely quicktime file? Thanks... > OK, > [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > > John Gibson Unfortunately, there is no way to guarantee that. If it doesn't work when you "Make Movie" under the "File" menu, your best option is probably to use a tool like Snapz Pro <http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/snapzprox/> to capture the presentation as you play it and then save it as a QuickTime Movie. On 6/14/07 7:04 PM, in article 1181865845.123292.158420@i38g2000prf.googlegroups.com, > John, > [quoted text clipped - 39 lines] >> >> John Gibson SignatureMickey Stevens (Microsoft MVP for Office:mac) Office & Mac Resources: <http://home.earthlink.net/~mickey.stevens/> Hi, A popular method to accurately convert PowerPoint presentations for playback is a program called Impatica. -Jim Quoting from "Mickey Stevens" <mickey.stevens@mvps.org>, in article C29F0F4D.3CE70%mickey.stevens@mvps.org, on [DATE: > Unfortunately, there is no way to guarantee that. If it doesn't work when > you "Make Movie" under the "File" menu, your best option is probably to use [quoted text clipped - 48 lines] >>> >>> John Gibson SignatureJim Gordon Mac MVP MVPs are not Microsoft Employees MVP info http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Hi, From Microsoft: http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/office2004/using.aspx?pid=usingoffice2 004&type=howto&article=/mac/library/how_to_articles/office2004/of_xplatform. xml From the MVPs: http://pptfaq.com/index.html#name_Cross-platform_Compatibility -Jim Quoting from "Mickey Stevens" <mickey.stevens@mvps.org>, in article C29F0F4D.3CE70%mickey.stevens@mvps.org, on [DATE: > Unfortunately, there is no way to guarantee that. If it doesn't work when > you "Make Movie" under the "File" menu, your best option is probably to use [quoted text clipped - 48 lines] >>> >>> John Gibson SignatureJim Gordon Mac MVP MVPs are not Microsoft Employees MVP info http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ |
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