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Loading...Diganta Saha is an Indezine reader that I have been corresponding with. He’s provided valuable information on video formats for cross-platform videos. Diganta uses PowerPoint 2004 on the Mac, and he uses QuickTime Professional on the Mac to convert his QuickTime videos to file formats compatible that are compatible with PowerPoint for Windows (and Mac). Over to Diganta…
This is for any of you or your users trying to get PowerPoint (PPT) with movie files to have the maximum compatibility with all platforms. I’ve gone through a large range of formats that Quicktime Pro can output and have concluded that PowerPoint will work with Windows and Mac on these movie formats below.
Using Quicktime Pro
- AVI : Compression None
- AVI : Compression Cinepak
- Quicktime : Compression Cinepak (works most of the time)
Using ffMpegX
To creat MPEG-1 (select VCD mpeg2enc ), also a free alternative to Quicktime Pro
- MPEG-1 (VCD)
One caveat is that when using Office 2004 on the Mac to create PowerPoint presentations with video files with any of the working formats mentioned above, the preview of the first frame does not show on Windows. Double-clicking on the blank space where the movie would be in the PowerPoint file on Windows will start the movie. I experimented with Quicktime movie with Photo-JPEG compression which showed the first frame of the movie on a Windows computer, however, it did not play the movie at all.
This can be fixed on a Windows computer by unlinking and relinking any of the movie files formats mentioned above and saving the file. Saving it on Windows makes any of the movie files formats recommended above, preview the first frame of the movie correctly on both the Mac and Windows computers. This seems to be a serious bug with Office 2004 Powerpoint in terms of interoperability when it comes to movie files. I remember that Microsoft used to have an easy feedback webpage, but now its far more convoluted to send any bug reports. Does anyone know of Scott Erickson’s or Roz Ho’s contact info?
Thank you, Diganta.
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