Quicktime insertion to Powerpoint

I am inserting movies into a powerpoint presentation. When I am in the editing window the movie will be present in an image with editing dots and at other times a different movie will be present with only the editing dots and no image. Movies are in the same format. Any reason for this?

I seem to remember years ago PowerPoint being reasonably happy with QuickTime movies (this predated Mac OS X), however a year ago I tried this with PowerPoint 2004 and gave up in disgust.
I used Keynote instead and had zero problems.
PowerPoint 2008 looks like it might be a lot better in this and other areas, and in fact looks the most improved part of Office 2008, however the rest of Office 2008 looks like sucking so bad that I would still avoid it like the plague.
iWork '08 (includes Keynote, Pages and Numbers) is an absolute bargain compared to Office

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Quicktime Kirk,
I have downloaded another persons inquiry because it is exactly the problem I am having. Here is his post
"I make movies of cells and convert them to quick time and insert them into powerpoint for presentations for conferences. I never had a problem with this until I upgraded to office 2004 and now many (but not all) of my movies won't play. They seem to be there but when I click play they go white as though there is only the first image. I had saved them as cinepak and or jpeg A usually with image J or older ones from the original NIH image and I can't figure out what the problem is. I even upgraded to quicktime pro to resave them as self contained but still they don't work when I insert them. I can play them all with quicktime player and when I make new ones now in image j I save them as video and that seems to work but it would be very difficult to go back and do that with everything. Does anyone know why or how to fix this?"
My additional comments would be I used the Sample_iTunes.mov from QT and it plays like a champ in PPT. My movies are all from 2004. When I save them in the QT 7.1.3 it doesn't seem to make any difference. The older movies insert into PPT as a QT icon with 4 color quadriant. Everything including .swf are now working in QT. Thanks for your help. When I go back to 7.0.3 they work but then I can't play my videos in iTunes unless I do an erase and a reinstall to get rid of the updated iTunes. Thanks
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What are the Project Resolution of Parent and the Simulation Project? Is it same? If it is not, please make sure that the following option is checked in Parent Project before copy/pasting slides from the Simulation Project to the Parent project.
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This isn't my area of expertise, but AFAIK, the issue with powerpoint was fixed in Flash Player 15.
Do you have the latest Flash Player for Internet Explorer installed? Powerpoint is going to use an embedded IE window, so having the latest Firefox plugin wouldn't help you.
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Right now, I'm inserting the slides throughout the video on a separate video track, then adding another track with a solid black background underneath (so that the lecturer doesn't appear on the sides of the screen underneath the slide). It's time consuming because I'm cutting back & forth between two camera angles and also the slides.
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Just watching a static slide for a period of time can be deadly dull.
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hi guys, i am troubleshooting a flash file issue on my site. for some reason, people in the uk cannot stream my flashfiles from my site. The rest of the world has no problem but europe seems to have trouble. I want to try a quicktime movie to see if it is a flv / flash issue or a streaming issue. However, when I select 'insert' there is no menu for quicktime movie. there is a menu for flash but not for quicktime.
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