Re: How do embed .avi movies into powerpoint 2003?

To distribute a PPT with media you must have the media in the same folder as the presentation BEFORE inserting it on the slide. If you have already inserted it from a location other than the presentation folder you will have to delete them and re-insert them AFTER moving them to the right folder. If you don't they will fail on the other PCs.

Once that is accomplished you can then zip the entire contents of the folder and send it as an attachment. When your receiving party gets the email they MUST unzip all the contents in to a folder with a short path name. I suggest "C:\test" or some other short name. Unpacking to the desktop and trying to play the presentation will fail about 50% of the time so make mention of it to your email recipient.


Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

PowerPoint Video and PowerPoint Sound Solutions www.pfcmedia.com




"Max" <Max@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:57E5FDB1-58E2-4C0F-A1CC-880346A5E3CE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Dear Austin
Understand that.
What I need to do is to email the ppt/pps file with six large linked avi
files. Do I have to use the presentation cd route, or will it work with the
avi's in the same directory as the ppt file?

Thanks for the prompt reply

Max

"Austin Myers" wrote:

Nothing to do, that is how PowerPoint works and it can't be changed.  All
media files are linked, never embedded.

Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

PowerPoint Video and PowerPoint Sound Solutions www.pfcmedia.com



"Max" <Max@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:A39A2039-FF97-46FF-99C0-28E82566C57D@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I am trying to embed a number of .avi animations into ppt slides. The
>program
> is clearly linking the animations not embedding them in the ppt file. I
> cannot find a control to allow me to embed rather than link.
>
> What should I do?
>
> Thanks for looking



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