Powerpoint Presentation Problem

[jaird]

I have a powerpoint presentation that has video in it. Because powerpoint links the video instead of embedding it I have video files along with my powerpoint file. This works fine when it is on my computer but when I burn these files to a CD and run it from another computer the videos do not play. It is looking for the video in the C:\My Documents folder instead of the D:\ drive. Is there any way to properly link these files so i can run powerpoint on a CD instead of having to put it on a computer?
Thanks

 

[red54]

Haven't done this, but would sound reasonable to put the video files on cd, then prepare the Powerpoint presentation linking to the cd video files. Then burn the whole thing to another cd. Note: that the destination machine must have the same drive designator for the cd as you have. i.e. if the system you're going to run the cd on has it as drive e:, then your presentation won't work.

May also be an option in Powerpoint to always look for avideo file on a particular path, but I'm not that familiar with Powerpoint to know for sure. Time flies when you don't know what you're doing...

 

[xlhelp]

Chances are that when you created the presentation the PPT itself and the video were in different folders. If you have everything in the same folder when you create your presentation, chances of PPT looking for relative path are small

 

[jaird]

thanks, i will try this out today.