Re: How can I play several movies simultaneously within a slide?

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Hello Echo S

I hope you're still with me on this, as I accidentally clicked yes (i.e.
accidentally iand erroneously ndicating that your latest reply successfully
answered the question).

Since yesterday, I've been experimenting - and still need help.

First, by the way, the procedure for setting the triggers for effects is
different in PPT 2004 for Mac - but it appears to enable you to do the same
things.

Also by the way, I should have mentioned that all of the several movies in
the slide are brief (either 2 sec or 4 sec), and I've set them to loop.

When I set the effects and triggers as you suggest:
All six movies commence simultaneously when I click on a clear white space,
and continue looping.
Then, all six movies pause simultaneously when I click on a clear white space.
Then, HOWEVER, the 'Slide Show' view closes the next time I click on a clear
white space.
I want all six movies to start simultaneously, and pause all six movies
simultaneously, as many times as I care to click on clear white spaces -
without the 'Slide Show' view closing down.

"Echo S" wrote:

When you insert a movie onto a PPT slide (on the PC), you're prompted to
play the video automatically or on click. Regardless of which you choose,
when you go to the custom animation pane and have a look, you'll see a
"pause" trigger animation there -- set to "on mouse click."

Basically, this is a trigger animation -- a movie action | pause -- that's
applied to the movie on the slide. When you click the movie, it will pause.
When you click it again, it will play.

So that's what I'd do if I were you. Insert the movies, and then change the
initial "play" animation setting to "on click" for the first movie, and then
the rest of those "play" animations to "with previous" for the rest of the
movies. (Like you described in your first post -- you were on the right
track there.)

I just don't know if the Mac applies automatic pause triggers to movies when
you insert them.

To make one manually, you'd select the movie on the slide, then in the
Custom Animation pane ...

Add Effect | Movie Actions | Pause.

Select the Movie Action | Pause in the animation pane. Click the arrow
beside it and choose Timing

In the Timing dialog, click the Triggers button (this part is on the
tutorial you looked at earlier).

Choose "start effect on click of" and select the video from that list.

This applies a pause trigger to the video. So, when you click the video, it
will pause.

Repeat for the other videos.


What this does is let you click the mouse at random to start all the movies
playing. Then, clicking on any individual movie will pause it.

If you want to click something else (like an autoshape or "button") to
pause/play the movie(s), choose that object in the "start effect on click
of" list instead of the movie name.

Now, hopefully someone will confirm whether this works on PPT 2004 for the
Mac or not. :-)

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"Petula" <Petula@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks John and Echo

Yes, I was looking in 'Normal' view, and I needed to be in 'Slide Show'
view. [I haven't had to use different views before.] Also, I needed to
click outside the movie windows, just as you stated.
It seems to me that the term triggers isn't used in PPT 2004 for Mac. The
tutorial about triggers that Echo suggested is for PPT 2002 and PPT 2003.
So
there are no grey trigger bars either in PPT 2004 for Mac.

In any case, the timing-of-effects functions that used to be set using
"triggers" are still there in PPT 2004 for Mac, under:
Slide Show / Custom Animation / Start, and also under Slide Show / Custom
Animation / Effect Options / Timing.

There's still one problem remaining:
Whereas all animations do now start when I click, I haven't managed to
figure out how to pause and then resume the movies.
The best I've managed to do is to right click; which results in a pause
plus
appearance of a context menu window. Any action that produces an action
after that results in return to 'Normal' view.

By the way, the PPT presentation currently comprises only a single slide.




"John Wilson" wrote:

Thanks Echo, yep I meant in show view. My last Mac was a B&W Classic with
a 4
Mb hard drive (still works) so maybe none of this works on a modern Mac!!
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"Echo S" wrote:

If you're creating a new textbox when double-clicking, then you're in
editing view. I'm sure that John meant you should try that in Slide
Show
View.

Here's a quick tutorial on triggers for the PC -- I know there are
bunches
more out there. http://www.echosvoice.com/triggers.htm

Once you've created a trigger, it shows up in the animation pane as a
grey
bar.

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"Petula" <Petula@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Regret to have to report that single-clicking outside the videos does
nothing, and double-clicking creates a new text box.
Also, the solitary reference to "trigger" in the Help appears in a
topic
about Macro Viruses. Where is the "grey trigger bar".

"John Wilson" wrote:

First - I'm a PC user so I might be talking out of my right button.

If you have set the animations as you say then try clicking anywhere
except
on a video.

If you want to click the video to start them all try adding a
trigger set
to
"play" for the first and drag all the other with previous "plays"
below
the
grey trigger bar
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"Petula" wrote:

I'm using PowerPoint 2004 for Mac in Office 2004 for Mac - which
is
'updated'
up to date.

I'm having trouble making several movies play simultaneously
within the
same
slide .

In Slide Show / Custom Animation, I set the animation order of the
movies.
Next I set the first movie to play upon Click.
Next I set the subsequent (five) movies) to play With Previous,
with
zero
delay.

Then, in the preview thumbnail, the movies do play simultaneously.
However, in the actual slide, whichever movie I double click on
plays
once
and then winds back to its beginning, and then the subsequent
movie
does the
same, and so on, in order one movie at a time.


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