Adding videos embedded in PowerPoint

Lis Webb · 2025-03-12T15:08:26+00:00

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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

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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

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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.

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

Lis Webb

That's really helpful - thank you! I will pass it on to our tech team and come back to you if there are any queries.

Lis Webb

I have tried this out and it works fine on my laptop but the videos still won't play on the pc we use for presentations.

Can you suggest what I might be doing wrong?

Thank you

Graham Criddle

Which of the two options are you trying @Lis Webb ?

Lis Webb

Transferring control to Powerpoint