Powerpoint Movies Help

Hi

I'm hoping someone can help. We don't do much in powerpoint but I need to produce a presentation that includes movies. However I am working on mac osx 10.4 in powerpoint 2004 and the final presentation will be played on a PC. It won't let me insert .wmv files into powerpoint and I hear .mov files won't play on PC. Is there a cheap way round this or should I just design the presentation in mac and then add the movies at the last minute on a PC?

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Cheers...Stu

Get Flip4mac.

Then your WMV will work on your Mac and the PC. I just went through this exercise a few moments ago. I am the only guy who works on a Mac (running as a Mac) in my office, except the graphic designer.

We both have flip4mac WMV.

Google it and install.

JMC

You will have to encode the movie using the Cinepak codec to get it to work cross platform

But you still need to test it on a PC to make sure

Thanks both for your help. Will look into this and see how I get on

Thanks again...Stu

JMC2008 said:

Get Flip4mac.

Then your WMV will work on your Mac and the PC. I just went through this exercise a few moments ago. I am the only guy who works on a Mac (running as a Mac) in my office, except the graphic designer.

We both have flip4mac WMV.

Google it and install.

JMC

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Additionally - although it will not say so - I think you will have to restart the computer once you install flip4mac (if you choose this path). I am also using QuickTime Pro which I fogot to mention, and also you may have to set the preferences of the file type *.wmv to 'always' use QuickTime to play these files. To do this -right click any file of the type - press and hold OPTION aka ALT - then select the program from the list - OR - browse for it.

Again - I do not know if you need to upgrade to QT Pro or not, or if you actually need to change the file type association; however, since flip4mac is a Quick Time expansion I assumed so, as I WAS using VLC to open the file type - WMV.

Because I either had already done this some time ago (as was the case with QT Pro) or did it when it was not immediately working - later on when it was still not working I figured out that I had to restart the machine.

JMC