how to play a movie across slides in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac" ??

**Padmasola** · 13-01-2012

OK, guys, I am having some issues concerning the office and to add further, I have been able to set up PowerPoint presentations previous to both Mac and PC in which the movie file inserted is able to play across the slides. This works well as it offers to create sin-along presentations. But I am unable to locate that characteristic in the new 2011 edition for Macs. Anyone having suggestions regarding the same.

**JyotiT** · 13-01-2012

As you told that you are interested in Sin-along presentations, I found from some sites that you are not able to do so as I doubt that Microsoft will permit to make use of it or it will provide some support for it.

I cant make out that this is possible, but if you are able to describe how you did it in previous editions of PPT, we can almost certainly translate it into PPT2011-speak.

**-Deven-** · 13-01-2012

I will provide some exact solutions which will prove to be useful in your way. Do you mean to inquire about is there any method to have text appear on top of the video at the time of playing?

I would like to say in this case that , PowerPoint 2010 (Windows) and PowerPoint 2011 (Mac) maintain putting text in a Text Box on a layer that is in front of the video which is playing. You can make use of animation effects so that you are able to control the entrance, emphasis and exit animations. Older versions of PowerPoint lack support in the form of text in face of video .

**JustineBB** · 13-01-2012

According to me, in previous editions, I suppose the only means it would be done effectively is to make use of animation settings to control at the time of text boxes and then enter and leave at the time of the movie playing in a single slide.

**Alfons** · 13-01-2012

Hey I collected some information regarding this case and I don't recall this characteristic ever being probable in PPT for Windows, which I've been making use of it widely because PowerPoint version 3 are less compatible, according to me.
I've still got all from PPT 97 onwards installed on one or an additional computer otherwise virtual machine, while, so if you are able to give me some suggestion where you found this characteristic, I'll be pleased to have a look.We may possibly play sounds across slides but I don't consider being able to play videos .

**Gania** · 13-01-2012

As I can say that there are facts mentioned above that there is no means to do so. But in my case, I previously did a presentation in PowerPoint for Windows which contained some features such as a home-shot shot video of a song which played across all slides at the time of playing lyrics and the song were on various slides and were timed to modify as they came up in the video. There really was a play across slides option in the video settings then. I suppose this alternative was removed in PowerPoint 2003 for Windows, although I don’t have a idea regarding that . It has not made recurrence as then, and I don't consider it was ever there on the Mac version of PowerPoint, even though I have been making use of the Mac version from the time I used Office 98 for Mac. by the way presentations made using this alternative do not play correctly on latest editions of PowerPoint. It would still sort of work in 2003, but whenever a new slide came up it would tend to have a restart of the video..and due to this reason , multiple layers of audio tried to play .

**Abhiroopa** · 13-01-2012

According to me, at present the lone means to achieve this without writing a VBA add-on (assuming that would work) is to make use of MediaShout or else ProPresenter....third party presentation products that are apparently lyric presentation packages, but can be readily used for other reasons too. together they serve to be a cross platform, but not expensive .