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5730_Bancroft
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May 5, 2011
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Can't embed a Captivate video (swf) into Power Point 2007

  • May 5, 2011
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I am trying to embed an Adobe Captivate video (swf) into power Point 2007. I very carefully followed all the steps outlined from a search I did on the web and it is not working.

These are the steps I followed:

1. Create a simulation using Adobe Captivate and publish it as a SWF file.

2. Open the PowerPoint presentation and insert a blank slide for adding simulation.

3. We need to work with the Developer tab now. If you can't see it in the ribbon, follow these steps to make it visible.

(steps to get developer)

4.On the developer tab, in the Controls group, click More Controls

5. In the list of controls, click Shockwave Flash Object and click OK.

6. Drag diagonally to create a box in which the simulation would appear. Don't worry about sizing it accurately; you can adjust it later as well.

7. Right click the Shockwave Flash Object, and then click Properties.

8. On the Alphbetic tab, click the Movie property. In the value columnm type the full drive path, including the file name.

9. Set the Playing property to true, Loop to false and Embed Movie to true.

10. Close the Properties dialog and test the movie.

The simulation will now play in your PowerPoint presentation.

Note: If during the slideshow,t he simulation doesn't play automatically, right-click and select Play.

I followed these steps, and it is just not working. I go to play my power point presentation and set it to play from the beginning, and when it gets to the slide with the swf file, I just get a faded out still picture of the video, and it will not play.  If someone has had luck with embedding swf files from Captivate into Power Point, please let me know how you did it.   Thanks.

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    streamed_au
    Participating Frequently
    May 6, 2011

    Hi,

    I had exactly the same issue that you are describing and followed the same doc.

    After a lot of playing around i gave up trying to embed it in powerpoint, instead i opted for importing my powerpoint slides into captivate then used "Insert > slide video to embed a f4v video into the captivate project. By doing this i have full control of the video when it plays on my slide i.e. i can pause the video at any point to discuss certain actions that have been displayed i then use a click box which pauses the slide until i click or press a shortcut key to progress to the next slide. I published the project as a swf to PDF and when viewed in full screen mode within adobe reader looks exactly like the powerpoint display.

    cheers,

    Ben.

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    5730_BancroftAuthor
    Participant
    May 6, 2011

    Thanks, I really appreciate the information. The only problem is that I have to keep it as a power point presentation. I convert from ppt to a video, so I need to keep it as power point.

    I found these steps on the internet and followed them exactly, and went through the steps 3 times, to make sure I wasn't leaving anything out, and it just didn't work. I have a tech guy who's supposed to call me today regarding this issue, and hopefully he'll be able to go through it with me step by step to try and work it out.

    Ultimately, these are going to be training videos that are going to be set up on a website, so they ultimately have to be saved as videos.

    I'm keep trying to figure it out though.

    Thanks.

    Ariane

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