Inserting .wmv movie into PowerPoint

[Azia_Karim]

I just joined this forum. I wonder if any one expert in PowerPoint presentation can help. I give lots of Poerpoint presentations as a scientific communicator. I captured a video of the experimental procedure using Widows Movie Maker from a digital camera. The movie is great and I would like to insert that movie in the PowerPoint presentation. When I do that (insert movie or sound from file), I get an error message and PowerPoint shuts down (what a disaster if it happens in the middle of actual presentation. I can insert the .avi movie without any trouble but if possible I don't want to convert the .wmv movie into .avi movie (the file size triples).

If any one has come up with the problem I am facing, please HELP. I am using Windows XP (Home Addition and PowerPoint Suite 2003).

Thanks Azia

[ormonde]

Try converting the "Captured" video to mpeg-1. PowerPoint should not have a problem accepting mpeg files.

[Azia_Karim]

Thanks, Ormonde for the quick reponse. Which conversion software do you use. I tried to do this using Adobe Premier (Ihave mpeg as a codec in Premier) but it would not recognize the .wmv movie. I am surprized that the Windows Movie Capture gives a movie in .wmv format and then you can do very little with it. I would have thoght widows softwares would be all copatibe (ie, movie captured with Windows Movie Maker should be compatible with PowerPoint). I wonder if Microsoft knows about this problem.

Again, thanks for your help. Let me know if you can which software is good for converting .wmv movie to .mprg format.

Aziz

[ormonde]

"Which conversion software do you use."

Try a program called "AVSVideoConverter".

[Azia_Karim]

Thanks for the information. I got their web site from Google and downloaded the software ($29). It is very good and I had no problem converting. .wmv file to .avi or .mpeg file. You seem to be very knowlegeable in video technology. I really appreciate your help.

Azia

[ormonde]

"I really appreciate your help."

Glad to be of help