Render Format for Presentation

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Render Format for Presentation

Posted by Ralph Hajik on February 24, 2007 at 11:27 pm

Hi,

I’m using Vegas6d and DVD Architect3. I’m use to rendering to avi or Mpg2 and bringing it into DVD Architect3 for burning a DVD. I recently produced a 60 sec. Industrial clip that has to be placed into PowerPoint for a Presentation. I was wondering if anyone has done this before and what format do you think is best to use in Powerpoint?
Thanks for any suggestions.

Ralph Hajik
Westmont, IL

Rick Mac replied 19 years, 5 months ago 4 Members · 9 Replies
9 Replies

Gary Kleiner
February 25, 2007 at 12:51 am

My choice would be .wmv.

Gary Kleiner

Learn Vegas and DVD Architect

http://www.VegasTrainingAndTools.com
Ralph Hajik
February 25, 2007 at 1:01 am

Hi gary,

Thanks for the response. I tried .wmv at home and it worked find in Powerpoint, but at work it wouldn’t open, only in the player. This is a freaky thing. It could be that my boss at work has a older version of powerpoint. Who knows, I’ll try again.

Ralph Hajik
Don Bloom
February 25, 2007 at 1:29 am

Ralph,
I’ve always used an AVI file inserted in powerpoint and it’s worked like a champ.

Don
Ralph Hajik
February 25, 2007 at 4:01 am

Hi Don,

I tried AVI and beleive it or not, it doesn’t work. It just doesn’t play. This is really weard. What plays in my Powerpoint is .wmv and .Mpg2.

Thanks

Ralph Hajik
Rick Mac
February 25, 2007 at 4:09 pm

The avi might not work for you due to a lack of the proper codec to decode it. What type of avi did you render it to?
Ralph Hajik
February 25, 2007 at 4:31 pm

Hi Rick,

I don’t know what you mean by “What type of avi did you render it to?”.
In Vegas6d, I went to Render as > Save as type > Video for windows.avi and hit save. Under the CUSTOM section > Video format I used NTSC and hit OK.
What should the video format be in the Custom Section?

Ralph
Rick Mac
February 26, 2007 at 5:14 pm

What template did you choose. NTSC DV, uncompressed, NTSC YUV?
AVI is simply a wrapper for the codec. If a computer is lacking the codec to play the type of avi you rendered to the video will not play.
This may explain why your computer played certain renders types and your boss computer could not play it. Also, just because Vegas can render out to a large number of codecs does not mean that that file can be played by another application on your computer. PowerPoint by itself does not decode the audio and video files – rather it uses the MCI player (all PowerPoint versions before PowerPoint 2003). PowerPoint 2003 uses both the MCI player and Windows Media Player. Quite often, you cannot play video files because of missing codecs. However, there are times when you cannot play video files in PowerPoint even though you have the codecs installed – this happens when your MCI settings are changed.

Here is a link to explain things and how to get your presentation to play. Part 2 deals with codecs.

https://www.indezine.com/products/powerpoint/ppvideo.html

Hope this helps.

Regards, Rick.
Ralph Hajik
February 26, 2007 at 5:26 pm

Hi Rick,

Thanks for the information. I appreciate it.

Ralph
Rick Mac
February 26, 2007 at 6:56 pm

Your welcome.

Regards, Rick.

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