i need help fast, please help!

[wafelonia]

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hello

first of all i want to thank you for making this wonderfully program.

I have been using slide effect for several days now and i must say its a awesome program.
I have this school assignement, that i have to make a Powerpoint show.
The teacher said i can use any program to help me.
After some hours of working on it with slide effect i converted it to .avi.
So i can insert it into power point.
Now i have tried that but it doesn’t work 🙁
so i tought maybe you have a idea of solving this.

I cant play my .avi file with windows media player neither
sorry for my bad english by the way

oh and by the way you have a great customer service (since its not a world wide used program yet)
And of course ill tell you what the teacher gives me for the presentation 🙂

regards

wafel

[wafelonia]

edit: the .avi file wont play because i need some kind of codecs :(.

[alain]

Quick guess: try to rename the avi filename to wmv:

movie.avi –> movie.wmv

and then try to reimport it into Powerpoint, it may work.

I recently realized that powerpoint checks the filename instead of the real codec.

Tell me if it resolves your problem.

[alain]

And if it does not work try to install the vista codec package…

check following link for more info:
https://www.slide-effect.com/content/faq-i-created-a-movie-with-slide-effect-i-cannot-see-it-media-player

[wafelonia]

ill try that later, and i tried looking for codecs for windows xp but cant find em :*(

rgrds wafel

[wafelonia]

And i renamed it to .wmv but still doesnt work :*(.
Im going to try to download my slide using flv

[alain]

Did you try to install the Vista codec package ?

[wafelonia]

isn’t the vista codec package for windows vista only?
Cause i have windows xp.
Oh and i downloaded a xp package xp codec pack 2.5.0.
Anyway now i downloaded the xp codec pack the .avi file plays in windows media player but not in powerpoint.
i also tried to export it to flv, which didn’t work.

i am now trying to put the .avi on youtube, and then import it into powerpoint.

[alain]

the vista codec package name is misleading but it is also for Windows XP.

You may also try to convert the avi file using Windows Movie Maker,it could help.

[wafelonia]

thanks, i found out its for windows xp to just before you posted this, im downloading it at the minit.
and i’ll try converting the avi.

b

[wafelonia]

ok now i installed the vista codec pack but now my computer is really “upset”.
screen starts flashing everytime i open it with windows media player :(.

[wafelonia]

woooohooo i finally finished all this stuff.

what i did is:
1 export the presentation to .avi.
2 uploaded the video to youtube.
3 used a power point swf trick top it in my powerpoint.

ill make a tutorial later on if you want.

[alain]

woot, happy you (finally) solved the problem.

I really don’t understand why you had so much troubles with the movie.

Did the movie played well in windows media player once you installed the vista package?

[wafelonia]

when i installed the vista codec package i tried opening the .avi but then my whole screen started flashing to my screensaver…
it probably messed up because of the other codec pack :(.
last question: if i get the codecs to work and i want to transfer the .avi to another computer.
do i need to download the pack on that computer to let it works?

thanks

[alain]

well, standard movie output of Slide Effect uses the DVD codec. So if you are able to watch a DVD on the target computer it should work.. otherwise you will have to install the DVD codec (which is part of the vista codec package).

It is always a headache when you try to play a movie (not specifically a Slide Effect movie by the way) due to these codec things.

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