Export to Powerpoint: embedded quicktime movies won't show

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Export to Powerpoint: embedded quicktime movies won't show

I've exported a keynote presentation to Powerpoint, which includes embedded Quicktime videos, but when we open it on a Windows machine the embedded Quicktime videos do not show and instead the following text is shown: "Quicktime and a Video decompressor are needed to see this picture."

Any ideas on how to get the Quicktime videos to show?

Quad 2.5 GHz G5, Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Posted on Feb 27, 2006 8:06 AM

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Brian Peat

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Feb 27, 2006 8:22 AM in response to Christiaan

Not in PPT on a Windows machine. Even with QuickTime installed (which is needed to at least get rid of that error message you're getting) it still won't play the movies INSIDE PPT. Your best bet is to use WMV or AVI for your embeded videos.

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Christiaan Author

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Feb 27, 2006 9:04 AM in response to Brian Peat

Thanks Brian, you couldn't tell me which option to choose out of the following could you (they're export options from Vectorworks)? I can't see one that's obviously AVI and when we try to convert our original .mov files to .avi they degrade quite badly without any obvious way to avoid it.

Quad 2.5 GHz G5 Mac OS X (10.4.4) 8GB RAM

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Christiaan Author

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Feb 27, 2006 10:07 AM in response to Christiaan

as above

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Brian Peat

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Feb 27, 2006 10:55 AM in response to Christiaan

That looks to me like the QuickTime Specific Codec list. Is that ALL you can access when exporting? In some apps there's a second list, sort of a top level list. QuickTime is usually in that list, and if you choose QuickTime, you get the list you posted. Some apps ONLY post the list you posted. If you can manage to access the other list, you can choose things like AVI.

The other option is to export as QT using the Animation codec, which is near lossless. Then open that in QT Pro and export as an AVI.

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Christiaan Author

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Feb 27, 2006 11:54 AM in response to Brian Peat

Yeah that's all we can access. We'll give it a go, thanks for your advice.

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