Adding videos embedded in PowerPoint

Lis Webb

Hi We often have guest speakers with PowerPoint presentations that contain embedded videos. There doesn't seem to be a way that these videos can be played in Proclaim as part of the PowerPoint.

Am I missing something?

Thanks

Graham Criddle

Hi @Lis Webb - and welcome to the forums

Hi We often have guest speakers with PowerPoint presentations that contain embedded videos. There doesn't seem to be a way that these videos can be played in Proclaim as part of the PowerPoint.

There are two ways I am aware of that this can be done.

When you add the PPT file to Proclaim, you can select the option to Transfer Control to PowerPoint. If you do this, the PPT viewer will be used in the background to show the contents of that presentation and this would enable the videos to play

If you choose the other option Convert to images you will just get a picture for the "video slide" - which I assume is what you are currently seeing. To address this (assuming you are using a Windows computer), you can:

• Take a copy of the PPT file
• Change the file extension from .pptx to .zip (you may need to enable showing of File Name extensions in Windows Explorer to see these extensions)
• Then if you double-click the zip file you will see a list of sub-folders including one called ppt
• Double-click that and you will see another set of folders - double-click the media one
• In that folder you will see all the embedded videos as separate videos. And you can import the one(s) you want into Proclaim to replace the slides you got when you first did the import

If that doesn't make sense - please advise

Graham