> > 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!
The only PC/Powerpoint workaround I've found is to buy a faster laptop and keep movie resolutions low (e.g. 640x480 for Cinepak). It is actually faster magnifying a low resolution movie than to playing a higher-resolution movie without scaling. For example, the g3w5 smoothly playing PowerPoint movie I've beeen able to generate is 960x720 scaled up to 1024x768 (full-screen) on a 2.2 Ghz Pentium 4M laptop with the MPEG4 V2 codec (compressed using Premiere on a PC). Cheers, Warren PS. If a Mac laptop is an option for you, they generally do better with video & animations. -- Warren L. DeLano, Ph.D. Principal Scientist . DeLano Scientific LLC . 400 Oyster Point Blvd., Suite 213 . South San Francisco, CA 94080 . Biz:(650)-872-0942 Tech:(650)-872-0834 . Fax:(650)-872-0273 Cell:(650)-346-1154 . mailto:war...@delsci.com > -----Original Message----- > From: pymol-users-ad...@lists.sourceforge.net > [mailto:pymol-users-ad...@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of > Nat Echols > Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 11:00 AM > To: pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [PyMOL] animation format > > > 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.) > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive > Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop > reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. > Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. > Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl > _______________________________________________ > PyMOL-users mailing list > PyMOL-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pymol-users >
