> There is a well documented bug in Powerpoint 2004 for mac regarding > movie playback performance which seems to be the problem. There are > hundreds of posts on Microsoft's support forums. Actually when you > build the slide in PPT 2004 in edit mode the preview of the movie plays > fine but not in presentation mode!!! If anyone has found a work round > let me know!
I suspect this is the same bug I've encountered on Windows in PowerPoint 2003. (And on my boss's shiny new G4 with PPT 2004. Oddly, his old G3 with PPT 98 plays the same movies just fine in presentations.) For the jerkiness during playback, reducing the framerate certainly helps on a PC. (One of my coworkers pointed me to a Windows program called VideoLan, which makes it ridiculously easy to assemble PNGs into a variety of movie formats, with complete control over framerate and compression. It's a pretty slick program- $25 shareware I think.)
