Problems - Powerpoint to Adobe captivate

Hi Community,
I am after some help/ advise. I am using Adobe Captivate 3
and have sucessfully converted a Powerpoint presentation into Adobe
Captivate. However i have come across 1 stumbling block. This is
the initial powerpoint presentation is designed for a open day
where we want this presentation looping around on a laptop (hence
the need for Adobe Captivate). However the powerpoint presentation
currently has 5 avi movies in it and when the Powerpoint
presentation is imported into Adobe Captivate the avi movies just
show as pictures and do not play.
Is there a way to get these avi files to play within
Captivate. I have tried adding a animation into the timeline for
the slide however i get the message "This AVI file cannot be
converted by a adobe flash file. Conversion aborted".
Without these avi files in the published movie it is no worth
doing. So i am hoping someone can give me some help and advise.
Much appreciated
Steve

Welcome to our community, Steve
You probably need to look at a third party solution for the
AVIs.
See if
this
link helps any.
Cheers... Rick

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