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Chienworks wrote on 10/16/2001, 12:02 PM
A lot of it will depend on the length of your video. If it's very short, then
.avi will probably be playable on more computers than any other format.
But keep in mind that .avi also requires very fast data transfer. Typical
laptop computers & drives probably can't move the data fast enough to
play a 640x480 30fps stream. You can probably play 320x240 15fps
fine though.

The next best choice would be MPEG-1, encoded at the highest bitrate
(1856 kbps, i believe), but you will need to make sure that the computer
you are playing this on has the MPEG codecs installed.

MPEG-2 can potentially give you better quality, but we weren't able to
get PowerPoint 97 to play an MPEG-2 file even with the ligos codecs
installed.

May i also ask why PowerPoint? Is this video part of a larger
presentation that is being done in PowerPoint? Or is it a video that
stands on it's own? If it's the latter case, then just play it back with
Windows MediaPlayer instead. Alt-Enter after it starts playing will make
it full screen.
seanybear wrote on 10/16/2001, 12:27 PM
Bacically, a Powerpoint 2000 presentation with 3 (3-7 minutes each) video clips inserted. Most of the show will be slides, but I like to add the videos to add some flair and have fun. They play automatically at key points.

If I go avi, what compression option does the "best?" I tried MPEG 1/2 this morning, but the audio/video played out-of-sinc -- not sure why? Each video has MP3 files, captured video and other jpeg/gif files.

I have only made avi-DV movies for a print-to-tape option, so the Powerpoint mode is new to me.

Thanks
SonyEPM wrote on 10/16/2001, 12:37 PM
For powerpoint, use .wmv format.
seanybear wrote on 10/16/2001, 1:00 PM
For wmv format, what settings/option should be used. Using Windows 2000 with a Compaq 800 mhz laptop.

Thanks
SonyEPM wrote on 10/16/2001, 2:49 PM
512 preset works great, hald screen or full screen playback. Your system can easily handle it.