control video (Impress vs PowerPoint)
I installed SO8 on winXP box and converted a PowerPoint file to OPD file. Everything worked great except video. This PowerPoint file comes with video (avi files) and during the presentation, to play it all I have to do is to click over the video and the video is played. So if I need to play it again, I click again and that s it. With Impress though I have to reinsert the video since the original video is replaced by black box with asking mark, but that s not a problem, but I don t see the way to control the video like with PowerPoint (double click and it s executed). During the presentation the video is played at the beginning when the slide is loaded and once the video is finished there s no way to play it again. The only way I founded is to reload the same slide.
Is there any way to control the video during the presentation?
Thank you
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sotiris_2] at [2007-11-25 22:34:21]
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A possible workaround is to insert the video clip as an OLE object.
Do not use "insert-video and sound" but instead use "insert-Object-OLE object".
A new window appears: select the "Create a new object" button, then choose "Other object", then click the OK button.
A second window appears: select the "Create from a file" button, choose the video clip file on your disk, then OK.
You will have a small box with the name of the file on the slide. Right click on the box, select "interaction", then "Execute the action of the object", then "Activate the content", finally OK.
When in slide show, the cursor will change as a hand when it moves over the box. Click on the box : the Windows Media Player (or the viewer linked with the file extension) will come over the slide and you can replay the clip as you want. If you close the Media Player, it comes back when you click on the box again. Of course, the video clip cannot be played in the slide itself with this method.
I am also interested in your experience with Impress on Win XP. See my two previous posts:
1. Did you find the same problem as me when inserting the clip through "insert - video and sound"? (Video flashes and remains black when the first slide has no video clip).
2. And also did you find that text smoothing or anti-aliasing was missing in slide show if no effect or animation is attached to the text object?
