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QuickTime Movies in PowerPoint 2007 and Windows XP

By and large, I prefer QuickTime movies for digital media. Their visual quality/file-size ratio seems superior, their interface is user friendly, and their smaller file-size is more more bandwidth friendly.
Conventional wisdom says to use QuickTime on an Apple, and formats like '.avi' on the PC when creating a PowerPoint presentation. This doesn't have to be the case. QuickTime movies (.mov) and QuickTime VR objects CAN be used in PowerPoint on a PC.
While there's no 'one click' solution as of yet, this tutorial demonstrates a perfectly functional method, and if you do it once you'll be surprised how quickly you can do it the second time.

Let's begin; open PowerPoint 2007
In the upper left corner is the 'windows' icon. Clicking this icon brings up the window shown below..
In this new window click on 'PowerPoint Options'.

This will bring up a new window of options.

Within the 'popular' tab, check the 'Show Developer Tab in Ribbon' box.

Close this new window by clicking 'OK'

Note that there is a new 'tab' in the top of the PowerPoint window, entitled 'Developer'

This tab will apear every time you open PowerPoint, so the next time you want to insert a QuickTime movie you'll start the process here.

Click the 'Developer' tab.

The second group of tools is entitled 'Controls'.

Click on the bottom right icon 'More Controls'.

A new window will appear.
Click the option for 'Apple Quicktime Controls'.

Select OK to close the window.

Your cursor is now a "+". By clicking and dragging on the slide you will draw a box.
The box will be empty, but you should see it's extants.

Right click on this box and choose 'Properties'.

The next part may look daunting, but it's really simple.

Under 'Sizing' click the box on the right to bring up a drop-down menu; from this menu choose 0-qtControFitsMovie
(it may be already selected as default)

(this just tells PowerPoint to use the size of the movie as it's display size, not the size of the box you drew. If when you preview the slide you get a distorted movie, the reason is probably in this variable)

The next step is the only 'complicated' part of this entire tutorial, but in essence it's just letting PowerPoint know WHERE the movie is. This is it's URL.

We'll need to put the address of the movie in this box, but you can 'copy & paste' most of it.

Navigate away from PowerPoint for a moment (minimize, but don't close the program).

Locate the movie file you want to put into the slide.

For me it's in my 'D' drive, in my 'projects' folder,
and then one more step down to the 'Andy' folder.

This is shown in the 'Address'.

(If you can't see the 'address' right-click on the top of the window and check the 'address' check-box.)

I want to include the 'HeelLift' movie in this PowerPoint.

However, if I click on the file name it will open the movie, when all I need is it's 'address'.

One way to SEE the address by placing a backslash after 'Andy'.

See what this does? It shows us all the file addresses without actually opening them.

What we need to put into PowerPoint is the address, just as it appears here.

Remove the backslash and select and 'Copy' everything up to the file name (either right-click and 'copy' or 'control-C')

and 'paste' it into PowerPoint, at the 'URL' site.

Then, all that's left is to type in a 'backslash' and then the name of the file.
(don't forget the '.mov' extension a the end!)

Now close the 'Properties' window and view the slideshow.

Keep in mind that although you don't see the QuickTime movie in the preview, if everything is right it should be there when you view the slideshow.

Caveats:
1. If you move the QuickTime file there will be nothing on the screen when you play the slideshow.
2. You can 'package' this .ppt, but be aware that the settings on your security and packaging preferences need to be set accordingly. I'll try to cover this in another tutorial, but in the meantime feel free to email me any questions you might have regarding this feature..
3. You may get a 'security warning' when opening this .ppt file, or during the slideshow. Simply 'enable' this content (under 'options' in the pop-up window).

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