Can you embed video clips?

Hey'a all,

I have been trying to sort this out for literally months, but as yet no one has even bothered to reply to my thread on other forums (maybe they've been asked this question 1000 times!....lol). I'm hopping this one will be different.

Ok, dumb powerpoint. Anyway, I want to EMBED (that is, not to rely on linking) all my video clips, and any other media in my power point show so that I can email ONE (singular!!!!) pps file, and anyone can open it at the other end by simply double clicking the attachment. Flippen heck. You would think that by choosing EMBED files in the pack and go option, that it would be done, but oh noooooooo, that's just too simple....we can't have that now can we. I have had PPS files sent to me via email which is one file. I didn't have to unpack, decompress, or muck around with anything. I just ran that 'pps' file and it contained all pictures, sounds and clips within (EMBEDED) the actual pps file. When I attempt to create a pps file with media embedded, I never get just one file, and the pps file is always way to small to contain the video clip so I know it hasn't worked. Sooo, in closing (hehehehe) if one of you bright sparks could please let me in on the carefully guarded secret on how to do this seemingly simple task, then I would be eternally (yes, you read that correctly.....forever!) grateful.

Thank you in advance...

Me

I'm almost sure (about 95%) that video clips cannot be "embedded" in a PP Presentation, acoustics4me, they are always linked. What you have to do is, either, zip up all the files, video clips, PP Presentation, etc. so that they are extracted to the same folder by your recipient (so that the linked video file will play), or convert the video clip to a Flash SWF file (recommended) or an animated gif.

you CAN inbed them, but dont know if they'll cary on and save as the .ppt files

en

acoustics4me

I think it is better for you to convert the whole presentation together with the multi media you want to insert in the presentation to flash. With the small file size of flash, it is easier to transfer.

Some video conversion software enables you to converter your presentation to a solid flash file so you do not have to send the media with the presentation when emailing.

There are some awesome video conversion tools.