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Mac Forum / Applications / PowerPoint / January 2005Slow Quicktime in Powerpoint 2004
I just recently installed Office 2004. I did not delete Office v.X, since the documentation indicated it was not necessary to do so. I am finding that embedded Quicktime movies that played fine in Powerpoint X (30 fps) play unacceptably slowly in Powerpoint 2004 (very low frame rate, many lost frames). I am running on 15" G4 PowerBook 1.25 GHz processor 512MB of DDR RAM. Any thoughts on what to do? Thanks. I have exactly the same problem. PPT X is fine. PPT 2004 stutters. Same computer. > I just recently installed Office 2004. I did not delete Office v.X, > since the documentation indicated it was not necessary to do so. I am [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Any thoughts on what to do? Thanks. I should also say that the PPT X stuttered up until either one of the last 10.2.x updates or 10.3 (I can't remember which). The problem is between PPT and either Quicktime or the 10.3 itself. > I have exactly the same problem. PPT X is fine. PPT 2004 stutters. > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] >> >> Any thoughts on what to do? Thanks. I did remove Office v.X when I installed 2004 and I am having the same problem. I can not use video of any size without it lagging. The audio seems to be fine but the video is skipping. This is only when I am running the show. Previewing the video when not in the show seems fine. I'm running OS 10.3.4 Dual 867 Dual 450 15" G4 powerbook 550 >-----Original Message----- >I just recently installed Office 2004. I did not delete Office v.X, [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] >Any thoughts on what to do? Thanks. >. same here! This sucks! >-----Original Message----- >I just recently installed Office 2004. I did not delete Office v.X, [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] >Any thoughts on what to do? Thanks. >. me too brand new powerbook 2G Ram - only things installed are the updates from the mac website and office 2004. Many other porblems including animating a transparency effect, getting animations to link (sometimes works sometimes not) not happy LD > same here! This sucks! > >-----Original Message----- [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > >Any thoughts on what to do? Thanks. > >. Hi, I'm one of the testers in PowerPoint and saw your postings. For those of you who are experiencing this problem, can you reply to me personally via my hotmail account? I need actual examples of presentations and QT movies that are showing this performance problem so we can narrow down the problem. Please let me know if this is okay with you. Thanks!  SignatureThis posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Nancy Cho Software Test Engineer, PowerPoint Macintosh Business Unit Microsoft Corporation Just drop any .mov file in to powerpoint and start the show. You will see for yourself. >-----Original Message----- >Hi, I'm one of the testers in PowerPoint and saw your postings. For those [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > >Please let me know if this is okay with you. Thanks! Yes, would like to send you an example, but highly doubt I could get a decent sized PPT and a couple of associated MPEGs into a Hotmail account. It would be about 12 megs. If it helps at all, this is a problem for PPT X as well, and at some point it was solved by an incremental OS X update (I can't remember which). These MPEGs do not choke in Quicktime or in Keynote or in PPT X. For now I am just keeping PPT X and using it for anything with video, which is a bit of a kludge because I would really like to use PPT 2004's other cool new features. Thanks in advance for any help you can provide. > Just drop any .mov file in to powerpoint and start the show. You will see for > yourself. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >> >> Please let me know if this is okay with you. Thanks! Yes, would like to send you an example, but highly doubt I could get a decent sized PPT and a couple of associated MPEGs into a Hotmail account. It would be about 12 megs. If it helps at all, this is a problem for PPT X as well, and at some point it was solved by an incremental OS X update (I can't remember which). These MPEGs do not choke in Quicktime or in Keynote or in PPT X. For now I am just keeping PPT X and using it for anything with video, which is a bit of a kludge because I would really like to use PPT 2004's other cool new features. Thanks in advance for any help you can provide. > Hi, I'm one of the testers in PowerPoint and saw your postings. For those > of you who are experiencing this problem, can you reply to me personally via > my hotmail account? I need actual examples of presentations and QT movies > that are showing this performance problem so we can narrow down the problem. > > Please let me know if this is okay with you. Thanks! I have also encountered the same video playback problem in Powerpoint 2004, and read on various internet sites that many other Mac users are also having this problem. Files that played perfectly in Powerpoint X v10.1.5 play ABYSMALLY in Powerpoint 2004 on the same Mac. We have had to re-install Powerpoint X 10.1.5 and can't upgrade until this is fixed. I can't believe this got through Microsofts beta testing. However, if anyone from Microsoft is reading this I am 110% willing to help them find the problem in any way they seem fit - sending test files or testing a new Powerpoint build. I'd just like to see the problem fixed asap. Best Regards, John Hi, my name is Nancy and I'm a PowerPoint tester. Whoever is willing to send me .mov files and/or presentations that show this problem, please email me at nancycho67@hotmail.com. I will then give you my Microsoft email address to send the files to. I haven't seen any performance issues with Quicktime files but we want to narrow down the problem. Thanks! Nancy Cho Software Test Engineer Macintosh Business Unit - Microsoft On 6/2/04 2:15 AM, in article 865e8180.0406020115.2af8f6e0@posting.google.com, "John Perez" <perezj@amvbbdo.com> wrote: > I have also encountered the same video playback problem in Powerpoint > 2004, and read on various internet sites that many other Mac users are [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > John To everyone who is sending me and has sent me files, thanks so much. We have found a "temporary workaround"...but we see the problem and are working on it. The workaround for now is to decrease the movie size on the slide by going to the format menu and select picture. Click on the size tab and in the scale selection, check the Best for slide show checkbox and select the appropriate resolution for the slide show display. Hope this helps. Thanks! Nancy Cho On 6/2/04 11:55 AM, in article BCE370AA.41B%nancycho67@hotmail.com, "Nancy Cho" <nancycho67@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi, my name is Nancy and I'm a PowerPoint tester. Whoever is willing to > send me .mov files and/or presentations that show this problem, please email [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] >> >> John Nancy, thank you very much for your responsiveness on this issue. Looking forward to a fix soon. And as soon as you're done, please go help the Entourage team! > To everyone who is sending me and has sent me files, thanks so much. We > have found a "temporary workaround"...but we see the problem and are working [quoted text clipped - 45 lines] >>> >>> John Thank you Nancy. I think that besides actually fixing the problem, it is great for us, the users, to know that there is a real person (or team of persons) actively on our side. Much appreciated Lorry > To everyone who is sending me and has sent me files, thanks so much. We > have found a "temporary workaround"...but we see the problem and are working [quoted text clipped - 45 lines] > >> > >> John Has anyone heard anymore about this issue - it plagues me - ouch. Lorry On 6/4/04 6:44 AM, in article uLZUFojSEHA.2128@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl, "lorry" <xxldembo@mrict.comxx> wrote: > Thank you Nancy. > [quoted text clipped - 59 lines] >>>> >>>> John Has anyone heard anything?! I can't believe a company like Microsoft would leave something like this unsolved for such a long time (Since February when Nancy got on top. What has she done?). But you would think that something like this would get picked up by other testers earlier in development. What boggles my mind is that this problem is solved in an earlier version of PowerPoint (PowerPoint X). For £$%^ sakes people do something or just let us know what is happening. I run my business using PowerPoint and I need to be able to run video in my Presentations. On 14/07/04 07:24, in article BD1AE471.5A1D%lorry@iinet.net.au, "Dembo" <lorry@iinet.net.au> wrote: > Has anyone heard anymore about this issue - it plagues me - ouch. > [quoted text clipped - 50 lines] >>>>> >>>>> Files that played perfectly in Powerpoint X v10.1.5 play ABYSMALLY in >>>>> Powerpoint 2004 on the same Mac. >>>>> [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] >>>>> >>>>> John My feelings exactly. I fear that we will be forced to what for some kind of "comprehensive" maintenance update for Office 2004. I don't know why they wouldn't just release a patch for PPT itself. Deeply frustrating. > Has anyone heard anything?! I can't believe a company like Microsoft would > leave something like this unsolved for such a long time (Since February when [quoted text clipped - 79 lines] >>>>>> >>>>>> John I note the comments are getting more and more frustrated and angry.......any MVPs heard anything or have contacts within the Seattle buildings that may be on the way to a solution. All I want is video in my ppt presentaion to run correctly......... Lorry On 7/16/04 5:45 PM, in article BD1D703F.1060%anthony@missinglink.co.za, > Has anyone heard anything?! I can't believe a company like Microsoft would > leave something like this unsolved for such a long time (Since February when [quoted text clipped - 79 lines] >>>>>> >>>>>> John I just tried e-mailing Nancy Cho on her hotmail account and it bounced back saying it was full. The 'view optimal screen resolution' setting doesn't work fully. The motion still isn't very smooth. It moves smoothly in chunks but definately slows and speeds up during play. Also, it shrank all my movies down so the new size is effectively worthless. That's extra frustrating becuase I specifically designed my movies to be exatly the size of a powerpoint frame at the correct resolution so that, if anything, it would have to be shrunk to fit. My suggestion to everyone using a Mac is to switch to Keynote. It takes Powerpoint files so you don't have to start from scratch. And being that Apple wrote it and they're not pushing Windows Media player, then quicktime movies actually work properly. They have cool transitions too and the look and feel is actually a little better. I just wish they had something to replace Word. We are fully dependent here on Endnote and Word 2004 does not work with Endnote because Microsoft changed something. This rendered both programs useless to us. Same problem here... I've tested a variety of formats (e.g. MPEG-2, MPEG-4, QuickTime, etc.) in both PowerPoint 2004 and PowerPoint X. The issue is not only limited to playback speed...but playback quality. In PowerPoint 2004 there is significant frame-by-frame distortion. All presenters in our company are using two versions of PowerPoint. PowerPoint 2004 for general presentations (text+graphics)...and PowerPoint X for anything that contains imported video. Even when you use the workaround posted by Nancy Cho, the quality stinks in comparison to playing the same movie in PowerPoint X at any size. For anyone that needs an immediate fix, reinstall PowerPoint X. It's not really a "workaround" but it works... Microsoft should receive commission from Keynote sales :) > I just tried e-mailing Nancy Cho on her hotmail account and it bounced > back saying it was full. The 'view optimal screen resolution' setting [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > Microsoft changed something. This rendered both programs useless to > us. |
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