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Re: movie into powerpoint [message #24942 is a reply to message #24939]

Thu, 03 May 2001 07:57

John-David T. Smith is currently offline

John-David T. Smith
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mankoff@lasp.colorado.edu wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Can anyone direct me to the most effecient way to get a movie into
> powerpoint? Which movie formats are easiest to write a sequence of images
> into and the import into powerpoint, or translate into an importable
> format?

I was working on this just now actually. Mark has some excellent info:

http://katipo.niwa.cri.nz/~hadfield/gust/software/animation/

I chose the FliC format, which is smaller and much nicer than MPEG, etc,
for scientific "cartoon" type movies (animated graphs, etc.) -- none of
the flicker and blotchiness I associated with MPEGs of the same type.
Powerpoint cannot play FliC's internally without buying some plug-in for
WMP, I guess. I ended up using the free PowerFlic player and just
linking to it. To generate the flics, I write ppm's, and then spawn
ppm2fli from the unix command line. Make sure to use the -g option to
set the size of the movie, unless you've written 640x480 frames (the
default size).

Good luck,

JD

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