how to exchange presentations with movies between mac/win-..

hi,

my colleagues use macs with 10.4.7 and powerpoint 10.3.9; lastly we
need to exchange our powerpoint files with windows-users. everything
works except powerpoints with videos - the customer always see a
message like "to see the movie you need the quicktime decompressor
cinepak".

I read somewhere, that powerpoint under windows can only play
quicktime movies with a very old codec like cinepak - but we still get
this error message.

I also tried mpeg1 - didn't help either.

a solution would be to open the powerpoint on a pc, delete every movie
and then reimport them, but that's no satisfying solution.

so I would like to know, which video-format I should use?

thx!

regards,


ferdinand

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You would think by now the Windows PowerPoint team would have fixed those
bugs, but so far no luck.

Use .avi and the problem should go away. QuickTime Pro can export as .avi.

-Jim


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> hi,
>
> my colleagues use macs with 10.4.7 and powerpoint 10.3.9; lastly we
> need to exchange our powerpoint files with windows-users. everything
> works except powerpoints with videos - the customer always see a
> message like "to see the movie you need the quicktime decompressor
> cinepak".
>
> I read somewhere, that powerpoint under windows can only play
> quicktime movies with a very old codec like cinepak - but we still get
> this error message.
>
> I also tried mpeg1 - didn't help either.
>
> a solution would be to open the powerpoint on a pc, delete every movie
> and then reimport them, but that's no satisfying solution.
>
> so I would like to know, which video-format I should use?
>
> thx!
>
> regards,
>
>
> ferdinand
>

--
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Mac MVP

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