AboutJeffson Expertise I can answer PowerPoint related questions about audio, video and other rich media issues, slide transitions and animation effects, PowerPoint 2003/2007 Tips & Tricks, and presentation-based training and learning.
Experience My experience is using PowerPoint for business and educational purposes, especially focusing on delivery of PowerPoint presentation online and offline.
Education/Credentials Bachelor's Dgree of Information Management
Question I created a ppt in 2003 version and inserted a little movie which worked great when played on the orig computer. I opened it on my laptop which is Vista home premium or some such and now the video and audio do not sync. The video is jerky and slow and the audio is over much sooner than the video. I tried moving the actual movie file to the USB device where the presentation is saved but that did not solve the issue. The only other special effects I have used are the little .wav sounds which work fine either computer. Thank you for any advice. Diane
Answer Hi Diane,
I think maybe you can try to insert movie again.
Not all inserted movie files in PowerPoint is embedded, movie files in wav format larger than 100 KB (i.e. anything but a short sound effect) and other sound file formats are linked to PowerPoint presentation, they are saved on your local disk. The difference between linked and embedded, please view: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint/HA010348231033.aspx
If you want to let the sound files show on different computers, please do as following:
1. Put the sound files and the PowerPoint presentation in a same folder.
2. Reinsert these files to PowerPoint presentation. After you do this work, send the folder to other computers. Then the sound files can be shown.
But this way still cannot embed the audio files, if you want to embed the audio files to your presentation, here are 2 ways:
one, converting your presentation to Flash using some PowerPoint to Flash converters, such as PPT2Flash (http://www.sameshow.com/powerpoint-to-flash.html), ispring.
The other, using future PowerPoint 2010, from the current 2010 Technical Preview version, it lets users embed all inserted files.
