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I have PowerPoint 2002 I'm trying to figure out how to have a video running in the background as the words are changing.

What I want to be able to do is have a clip of a video running in the background and the words in the foreground changing asI need them to.

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by philldmc

Sorry, but what that showed, I already knew. I'm looking for a way to insert a video and have it consistency be running during the entire slide show.

by danprem

Powerpoint is based on the concept of slides. It is this concept that makes powerpoint simple, but it also constrains the scope of what can be done tih powerpoint. And unlike presentation tools such as flash, Powerpoint cannot keep an object accross slides.

You will be able to open a video, and play it on one slide but you will not be able to play the video continuously accross slides. Everytime you go to a new slide The video will start from the begining, becoz PP loads it at as a new object every time.

Powerpoint does not perform automated multiple operations at the same time. i.e., you cannot automatically animate text while the video is playing. You might be able to do it using a manual click. But again if you are going to do something like that the entire presentation must be done with only ONE slide.

You must consider some other software. Flash does these kind of stuff well. Perhaps u must try it.

by philldmc

Thanks for the info, I attended a workshop that someone was using PowerPoint and they did have a video playing in the background with the words changing in the forgroud...So, I know that it can be done...Unless he used a program simular to PowerPoint.

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