I'm using PowerPoint 2003. Does anyone know how to embed a video in a PowerPoint presentation in such a way that it can be moved to another computer?
Possible solutions I'm considering:
- Actually embed the video file into the powerpoint file. This would be ideal, but I don't know how to do this.
- Insert a reference to the video into the presentation. I need this to be a relative path, though, not an absolute path.
Best Answer
Note: doesn't work for PowerPoint 2003, only for new pptx files (since 2007)
Seems like relative paths are supported, they are just not straightforward to implement. For example if your Powerpoint presentation is in the MyFiles folder, and the MyMovie.avi is in the Media folder inside MyFiles. The trick is to edit the xml files inside the Powerpoint file:
Works for me on Windows 7.
Good luck!