{"id":247,"date":"2005-04-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/?p=247"},"modified":"2020-04-12T19:45:40","modified_gmt":"2020-04-12T23:45:40","slug":"april-21-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/2005\/april-21-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"April 21, 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p> So how on earth do you import movies into PowerPoint? Our group is doing &#8220;The Spin in Sports&#8221; dynamics project analyzing baseball, tennis, and curling (guess which one I got ;-). Anyhow, we have a bunch of cool video clips to import, but we couldn&#8217;t seem to get it to work. Of course, QuickTime doesn&#8217;t work (for obvious reasons). But mpeg should work, right? Nope, won&#8217;t work&#8230; Neither will AVI. We tried on multiple computers with multiple versions of PowerPoint. Some sluething on the Internet told us to embed the videos in a webpage and then embed the webpage in PowerPoint. Sound needlessly complicated? Sure sounds like it too me. So I had to create a web page, use the embed tag to embed the video, and then add a Microsoft Web Browser control to the PowerPoint slide, and then add code to the DocumentComplete event, test the current location for nothing loaded (&#8220;&#8221;), and then load the webpage with the embeded video. Ehew, what a pain. And I had this one WMV file that I needed to clip, but I couldn&#8217;t import it into VirtualDub because Microsoft asked them to take the feature out. So I tried an external utility to convert it to an AVI, but of course, the utility crashed. I tested the utility on some other WMVs and it seemed to work. So I got the bright idea of simply converting the WMV to another WMV and then converting to an AVI. So yeah, that worked (figures, right?). <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So how on earth do you import movies into PowerPoint? Our group is doing &#8220;The Spin in Sports&#8221; dynamics project&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old","tag-old"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1373,"href":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions\/1373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.briancbecker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}