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MS Office Forum / General PowerPoint Questions / October 2006Why does Windows Movie Maker wmv not work in Powerpoint 2003?
I can insert an avi file into Powerpoint 2003 and play it as movie. However, if I edit the avi in Windows Movie Maker and save it as a smaller wmv file in same directory, the wmv will not play after being inserted into Powerpoint 2003? It usually turns to a white box unless the wmv is a fade from black, in which case the frame stays black. This occurs on two computers, a Dell laptop and a custom desktop, both running WinXP with Office 2003 with all available updates. Both have 2 GB RAM, the laptop has 128 MB video and the desktop 256 MB. Might be a path length issue. See #2 at http://www.echosvoice.com/tshoot_video2.htm  SignatureEcho [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/ >I can insert an avi file into Powerpoint 2003 and play it as movie. >However, [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > running WinXP with Office 2003 with all available updates. Both have 2 GB > RAM, the laptop has 128 MB video and the desktop 256 MB. Which version of Movie Maker are you using? Austin Myers MS PowerPoint MVP Team Provider of PFCMedia, PFCPro, PFCExpress http://www.pfcmedia.com >I can insert an avi file into Powerpoint 2003 and play it as movie. >However, [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > running WinXP with Office 2003 with all available updates. Both have 2 GB > RAM, the laptop has 128 MB video and the desktop 256 MB. I am using Windows Movie Maker 2.1.4026.0 I read that the video driver could cause problems of this type so I loaded the latest drivers for the video card on the desktop, a Radeon 9800 XT 256. The Dell laptop says it has up-to-date drivers when I run Dell diagnostics. All available WinXP2 and Office 2003 updates were installed on 10/27/2006. The avi files that I am able to load are in the same directory as the wmv files so the problem is unlikely to be related to path length. The path is; C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\My Movies\Movie1 The wmv files that I make in Windows Movie Maker play fine in Windows Media Player. However, they will not play when inserted into PowerPoint 2003, although avi files and the wmv test files from MS support play fine in PowerPoint. Therefore, there is likely to be a problem in the way that Windows Movie Maker is writing the wmv files. > Which version of Movie Maker are you using? > [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > running WinXP with Office 2003 with all available updates. Both have 2 GB > > RAM, the laptop has 128 MB video and the desktop 256 MB. It's ahrd to say what is happen here without direct acces to your machine to look it over. With that said, Both PFCMedia and PFCPro are designed to solve these sorts of issues. You can download the free trial version of either and see if it solves your problem. http://www.pfcmedia.com Austin Myers MS PowerPoint MVP Team Provider of PFCMedia, PFCPro, PFCExpress http://www.pfcmedia.com >I am using Windows Movie Maker 2.1.4026.0 > [quoted text clipped - 42 lines] >> > GB >> > RAM, the laptop has 128 MB video and the desktop 256 MB. Excellent! Thanks for lead on PFCMedia. It solved the problem; don't know why since the file size changed only slightly and all the files were in the same directory. Is this just a known bug in Windows Movie Maker or in PowerPoint or both? A few other forums are full of similar problems with using movies in PowerPoint. In any case, thanks for sorting me out. Next problem is that one of the three projectors we are using (a small Dell) won't show the wmv movies in PowerPoint although it shows them in WMP fine. > It's ahrd to say what is happen here without direct acces to your machine to > look it over. With that said, Both PFCMedia and PFCPro are designed to [quoted text clipped - 55 lines] > >> > GB > >> > RAM, the laptop has 128 MB video and the desktop 256 MB. i can u help? How can i download microsoft powerpoint for use in microsoft works? i need to do some presentations, but cannot open and edit a draft powerpoint presentation on my computor even though it has works. When i down load the attachment sent to me, it does not recognise any work program i can use to edit. On the powerpoint thing, i can only download powerpoint viewer, this doesnt allow me to edit the presentation. You need to purchase PowerPoint in order to be able to edit PowerPoint presentations. http://www.microsoft.com/office/powerpoint/howtobuy/default.mspx Looks like you may be eligible to use the Upgrade version, which will save you some money. Alternatively, you can try using Open Office's presentations application, Impress, to edit your files. http://www.openoffice.org SignatureEcho [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/ >i can u help? > How can i download microsoft powerpoint for use in microsoft works? [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > doesnt > allow me to edit the presentation. > i can u help? > How can i download microsoft powerpoint for use in microsoft works? [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > On the powerpoint thing, i can only download powerpoint viewer, this doesnt > allow me to edit the presentation. simple. You download and use OpenOffice. I reads and writes Powerpoint, Word, Excel files just fine. It is free. see www.openoffice.ofg |
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