iVideo/Powerpoint on PC question

[d.word]

I have video I need to insert into a PC Powerpoint presentation and am having difficulties with the PC being able to show the video. I only have iVideo to make the video. Any suggestions?

 

[d.word]

oops, meant iMovie

iMovie that is and not iVideo.....

 

[Texas04]

iMovie that is and not iVideo.....

Please be more specific to the problems you are finding on your PC when you try and import the video into your powerpoint.

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[d.word]

Thanks. I inserted the video into Powerpoint on a Mac and when I open it on the PC, I get error message "Quick Time and a H.264 decompressor are needed to see this picture." The PC does have QT 7.1.6.

 

[No PC]

I had the same problem and was told by our IT guys that the PC version of powerpoint cannot link properly with quicktime. You have 3 options:
1. save your video as avi format
2. open your quicktime movie separately during your presentation
3. use a Mac to present

It just shows you waht a pain PCs are!!

 

[Texas04]

From what it sounds like you just need the most updated version of quicktime on your PC. Go to apple.com/quicktime and download the latest version. This should fix up the problem. Otherwise yes, export it using a different format, avi may be best.

If you do indeed have the most updated version and a different format still does not work, then make sure that you can import windows video clips into your presentation. If you can not then its a problem with Powerpoint on windows itself.

 

[d.word]

Thanks. QT 7.1.6 is the latest version for PC so I will try the other options that both of you suggested.

 

[djellison]

This is on my top-5 list of reasons I switched to a Mac...movies in Powerpoint being a complete pain the the ass.

The only formast I had a reasonable ammount of luck with was mpeg's and wmv's

Doug