Re: Can a powerpoint created on a PC with "Insert Video" links be made to run on a MAC?

From: David M. Marcovitz (marcoNOSPAM_at_loyola.edu)
Date: 02/02/05 

Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 07:52:13 -0800

Thanks for the details and thanks for helping out in the schools. Videos
are one of the toughest areas for compatibility (even between PCs let
alone from PC to Mac). When videos don't play, I have had more success
linking to them rather than inserting them because then they play in
whatever program on the machine can play them and don't rely on
PowerPoint. But I don't have a lot of experience with that.

If you are dealing with a variety of Macs, you probably have some OS X
Macs and some OS 9 Macs. This will be a problem as to what version of the
Viewer you run. In fact, some OS X Macs that don't include the Classic
environment can't even run the old Viewer. You might have to include
multiple viewers, but your chance of successfully auto-running one disk
on a wide range of Macs would be very slim.

I hope someone with more experience with this chimes in soon.

--David 

-- 
David M. Marcovitz
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/
"Bill Walter" <bwalter@resourceopt.com> wrote in
news:OhhfqzTCFHA.1524@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl: 
> The original creation was done with Office 2003 PowerPoint with all
> the latest updates. The target machines will be all over the map. In
> our school district a lot of the equipment is donated, purchased by
> PTA groups, obtained through various grants at different times. I am
> trying as much as possible to do something like the Package for CD
> from PowerPoint for PC that puts the viewer and everything on the CD
> so it is as independent as possible of the target machines. I just
> donate some free time in the school district helping repair and
> configure the odd systems they have collected. Up to now I have stayed
> away for the schools with the Mac systems. One of the teachers has put
> together an excellent set of training aids going over many of the 
> basic skill for the year using PowerPoint 2003 for PC and videos the
> school district has licensed from United Streaming. The teachers in
> the Mac oriented schools have asked if the materials can be made to
> work on their machines and I happened to be removing spyware and
> updating virus definition files on the PCs in the room where they were
> having the meeting to discuss the project and got sucked into the
> project. 
> 
> Bill Walter
> 
> "David M. Marcovitz" <marcoNOSPAM@loyola.edu> wrote in message 
> news:Xns95F162ADA4A4CmarcoNOSPAMloyolaedu@207.46.248.16...
>>I probably won't be able to answer your questions, but whoever will is
>> going to want to know what versions of PowerPoint, what versions of
>> the PowerPoint Viewer, and what versions of the Mac and Windows OS
>> you are using.
>> --David
>>
>> -- 
>> David M. Marcovitz
>> Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
>> Loyola College in Maryland
>> Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
>> http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/
>>
>> "Bill Walter" <bwalter@resourceopt.com> wrote in
>> news:e14Kh0JCFHA.2180@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl:
>>
>>> I have little experience with MAC and I have to visit one of the
>>> schools to try anything.
>>>
>>> I have a number of PowerPoint presentations created using Office
>>> 2003 that contain PowerPoint slides and inserted links to video.If I
>>> take the presentation and do a Pack for CD I can take the CD to a
>>> MAC and if Office and PowerPoint are already installed on the MAC I
>>> can click on the PowerPoint presentation and get it to play and the
>>> video will play also.
>>>
>>> On the PC the presentation automatically starts a menu and used the
>>> PowerPoint Player if the target machine does not already have a copy
>>> of PowerPoint installed.
>>>
>>> On the MAC it does not autostart and even if I install the MAC
>>> PowerPoint player
>>> the video content will not play. If the full PowerPoint is installed
>>> is still does not auto-start but the video content does play.
>>>
>>> I tried one MAC that had Microsoft office installed and if I
>>> inserted the CD and clicked on the PowerPoint presentation the
>>> presentation would show and when I got to a slide that had a
>>> inserted video the video would play when the video picture was
>>> clicked. 
>>>
>>> On that same machine I downloaded the Microsoft
>>> PowerPoint player for MAC. The click was still associated with the
>>> full PowerPoint so I opened the PowerPoint player and selected the
>>> PowerPoint presentation and it displayed but when I go to a slide
>>> with an inserted video it would not play. Does that mean that the
>>> PowerPoint viewer cannot play some videos that the full PowerPoint
>>> for MAC can play or am I still doing something wrong?
>>>
>>> The videos themselves will play if I click on them on the MAC so it
>>> must have some program  to allow the video to play. I am using AVI
>>> files because that seemed to be one of the only formats that was
>>> shown to be available in PowerPoint on both the MAC and PC. I tried
>>> MOV and although it played fine on the PC outside of PowerPoint it
>>> would not start from PowerPoint. I did not try it on the MAC because
>>> I am doing the presentation creation on the PC and I cannot test it
>>> on the PC with MOV files. I have not tried MPG yet. What specific
>>> version and parameters will insure that a MPG will play on both a
>>> MAC and PC from a PowerPoint slide show?
>>>
>>> I am trying to make some educational content for a school district
>>> that has some schools using MAC and other schools using PC.
>>>
>>> 1. Can I modify the CD so that it will autostart on either PC or
>>> MAC? 2. Can the MAC PowerPoint player play video that the full
>>> version of MAC PowerPoint will play?
>>> 3. Are there any books or articles on interchangeability of
>>> PowerPoint content between MAC and PC?
>>> 4. On the PC I have a monitor and a TV connected to the video card.
>>> When the presentation plays the video plays imbedded in the slide on
>>> the Monitor, but on the TV it switches from showing a copy of the
>>> slide to a full screen version of the video. Can the MAC be set to
>>> go to full screen for the video portion?
>>>
>>> Bill Walter
>>>
>>>
>>> I tried one MAC that had Microsoft office installed and if I
>>> inserted the CD and clicked on the PowerPoint presentation the
>>> presentation would show and when I got to a slide that had a
>>> inserted video the video would play when the insert was clicked. On
>>> that same machine I downloaded the Microsoft PowerPoint player for
>>> MAC. The click was still associated with the full PowerPoint so I
>>> opened the PowerPoint player and selected the PowerPoint
>>> presentation and it displayed but when I go to a slide with an
>>> inserted video it would not play. Does that mean that the PowerPoint
>>> viewer cannot play some videos that the full PowerPoint for MAC can
>>> play or am I still doing something wrong? 
>>>
>>> The videos themselves will play if I click on them on the MAC so it
>>> must have some program  to allow the video to play. I am using AVI
>>> files because that seemed to be one of the only formats that was
>>> shown to be available in PowerPoint on both the MAC and PC. I tried
>>> MOV and although it played fine on the PC outside of PowerPoint it
>>> would not start from PowerPoint. I did not try it on the MAC because
>>> I am doing the presentation creation on the PC and I cannot test it
>>> on the PC with MOV files. I have not tried MPG yet. What specific
>>> version and parameters will insure that a MPG will play on both a
>>> MAC and PC from a PowerPoint slide show?
>>>
>>> Bill Walter
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> 
> 
> 
>

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