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MS Office Forum / General PowerPoint Questions / November 2005Why does my video resize in presentation?
I have a presentation with multiple video clips. Every thing works fine on the (Win2000, Office 2002) PC that created it, however if I move it to another PC (Win2000, Office 2003) the video clip instead of playing full screen plays at 1/4 size in the lower left of the screen. This happens with both MPG1 and WMV files. I have tried constucting a page from scratch with the same video clips on other machines and get the same problem. Also on one particular PC when I run any of the clips in PPT the presentation freezes with a green screen. All clips play fine in WMP and mplay32 on all PCs. Any ideas? The first thing I would do is make certain that you have the latest video card driver for your video card and the latest version of DirectX. Austin Myers MS PowerPoint MVP Team PowerPoint Video and PowerPoint Sound Solutions www.pfcmedia.com >I have a presentation with multiple video clips. Every thing works fine > on the (Win2000, Office 2002) PC that created it, however if I move it [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > PPT the presentation freezes with a green screen. All clips play fine > in WMP and mplay32 on all PCs. Any ideas? Updating the video card drivers has cured the problem on the PC with the green video screen. Updating the drivers and DirectX has not solved the problem on the other PCs however. Is it possible that WMP9 is causing the problem? I now find that I can play the video clips (720x576) if they are not stretched to fill the page rather they are dragged to approximately 1/4 of the page. But, if I set the clip to resize to full screen (2003 only) via edit movie object, the problem reoccurs, but only with the WMV files, MPEG1 files will resize albeit with the expected blockiness due to scaling up. I have reinstalled WMP9 and also tried inserting video as Object/Media Clip/Direct Show with the same results. > The first thing I would do is make certain that you have the latest video > card driver for your video card and the latest version of DirectX. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > PowerPoint Video and PowerPoint Sound Solutions www.pfcmedia.com Well, I'd call that a bit of progress. Can I make a suggestion? Give PFCMedia a try. It's a free download that will function for two weeks without any restrictions. You may download it from www.pfcmedia.com Austin Myers MS PowerPoint MVP Team PowerPoint Video and PowerPoint Sound Solutions www.pfcmedia.com > Updating the video card drivers has cured the problem on the PC with > the green video screen. Updating the drivers and DirectX has not solved [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] >> >> PowerPoint Video and PowerPoint Sound Solutions www.pfcmedia.com OK here's the final chapter... Installed and ran PFCMedia. It killed my copy of Powerpoint 2002. Took the oportunity to upgrade to Office 2003 and all works well now on my desktop PC. Created a new presentation with media imported via PFC and stored it on a network drive. Media was stretched up a bit on the page. Ran this presentation on a networked PC with Office 2003 and the problem still occurs. Ran it on an Office 2002 PC everything ran fine. Tried the same thing again but this time just inserting media the traditional way. Again exactly the same results. Created another presentation but this time left the media at its native resolution. Everything works on both PP2002 and PP2003. Stretched the media and the problem reoccurs in PP2003. Seems that PP2003 does not like the image resized and tries to scale it back to its original size. My video clips were all 720x576 created from Procoder. I will have to try some different resolutions to see if that has an affect but my guess is if I want to fill a 1024 x 768 screen then the media will have to be as close to that size as possible. Keith Mitchell AV/Media Tech UWE Kieth, Can you contact me via e-mail. I'd sure like to follow this one through. austinm@grm.net Austin Myers MS PowerPoint MVP Team PowerPoint Video and PowerPoint Sound Solutions www.pfcmedia.com > OK here's the final chapter... > Installed and ran PFCMedia. It killed my copy of Powerpoint 2002. Took [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > AV/Media Tech > UWE |
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