PowerPoint Help?

[Rubber Bullets]

I'm writing a lecture using PowerPoint.

I have put a couple of videos in it, but when I save the presentation they don't save, they are simply run from where they are on my HDD. This means that if I pass on the presentation then there will be no video on other machines.

How do I get around this? If I burn the presentation and the videos on a CD will teh videos run from the CD? How can I make the presentation look on the CD to find them to run?

Any ideas?

RB

 

[JingleBells]

There is an option to embed the files in the presentation somewhere, http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA010348231033.aspx might help.

 

[Rubber Bullets]

Great link, thanks JingleBells

RB

 

[Ardrias]

Or you could have used OpenOffice and saved it as a flash

 

[Rubber Bullets]

I have considered the possibility of writting lectures entirely in Flash, it opens some interesting possibilities. To be honest though my lectures take long enough to write as it is, and I'm not that good at flash.

RB

 

[Ardrias]

Oh I didnt mean for you to DO them in flash. In OpenOffice Impress you can just export them as .swf so you wont have to deal with having Powerpoint or a viewer on the machine you'll be using to show it.

 

[Rubber Bullets]

Oh I didnt mean for you to DO them in flash.

Hi Ardrias,

I'm sorry, I wasn't being deliberately obtuse.

I did know what you meant, and thanks for the suggestion.

Last year I wrote a number of lectures, and wanted to include some animations. I created these animations in flash, but they are difficult to get into PowerPoint. I ended up exporting them as animated gifs. This worked, but it wasn't exactly slick.

As a result I did consider doing the whole lecture in Flash, but decided that it would take far too long. Perhaps something for the future.

RB