How to insert a movie into PowerPoint, or the movie will not scale to fill the whole screen, or appears wider then 4:3

Try this solution:

1. Go to the Insert Menu->Movies and Sounds->Movie From File.
2. Locate the F2 version and click OK..
3. Right-click on the image and choose Properties, then under the Picture tab, turn Brightness and Contrast all the way to 0% (this makes the image black), and be sure under the Size tab that "Best scale for slide show" is not checked and "Lock aspect ratio" is checked and "Relative to original picture size" is checked, then click OK.
4. Next, move the image so that it butts up to the top left corner.
5. Now, rescale the black image to the full size of the slide by dragging on the lower right corner (you should see a black slide now).
6. If you want the animation to auto play when you get to this slide, right click the image, choose Custom Animation, and under Timing, select Animate, choose Automatically and enter 0 for the seconds. Click OK and view the slide show.

The movie plays jerky.

Try this solution:

1. Because new third party apps like QuickTime (QT), are beginning to support MPEG movies, they may be competing with Windows Media Player (WMP) for MPEG playback in other applications, in this case PowerPoint. Windows Media Player, with all its bugs, remains the best choice for playing MPEGs.
2. If this is the case, and QT is trying to play the MPEGs in PowerPoint instead of WMP, try the following:
3. Click the Windows Start menu, click Run
4. Type Sysedit (or msconfig for Win 95, 98, ME) to open the System Configuration Editor
5. Click the System.ini window, go to the [mci] section, and then look for the following lines of information:
   [mci]
   AVIVideo=mciavi.drv
   MPEGVideo=mciqtz.drv
6. If any of the lines are missing, type the line as shown above (or copy and paste).
7. Click the Win.ini windows (if you are asked to save changes to System.ini, do so), go to the [mci extensions] section, and then look for the following lines of information (there may be more than this, but these are the important ones applying to MPEG)
   [mci extensions]
   avi=AVIVideo
   qt=MPEGVideo
   dat=MPEGVideo
   mpg=MPEGVideo
   mpa=MPEGVideo
   mpv=MPEGVideo
   enc=MPEGVideo
   m1v=MPEGVideo
   mp2=MPEGVideo
   mp3=MPEGVideo
   mpe=MPEGVideo
   mpeg=MPEGVideo
   mpm=MPEGVideo
8. If any of the lines are missing or replaced with something other than MPEGVideo or MPEGVideo2, type the line as shown above.
9. This should not effect the functionality of your other multimedia applications.
10. Click Save on the File menu, and then close the System Configuration Editor.
11. At this point, you should be able to go into PowerPoint, and insert an MPEG movie (MPEG-1 or MPEG-2) as a file.

The MPEG-1 version does not fill a 640 x 480 (or 1024 x 768) window.

Explanation:

1. We have experience this problem when running in Windows Media Player. The resolution of the MPEG-1 video is 640x480, but Windows Media Player chooses to produce some black lines on the edges of the screen.
2. The MPEG-2 version does not have this.
3. When run in PowerPoint, you can scale the edges of the inserted video to the edges of the new slide and when played in the Slide Show, the MPEG-1 goes to full screen.

The full screen version is better resolution than draft clips i.e., crisper text and lines.

Explanation:

1. That is becuase the draft clips were rendered and encoded at 448x336.
2. The full screen MPEG-1 is encoded at 640x480.
3. The MPEG-2 (DVD) will be even more crisp.

The MPEG-1 is jerky and sometimes leaves temporary, square, black holes. The draft clips are smooth.

Explanation:

1. Check your system requirements, especially that your DirectX is of the correct version, and your video card has enough Video RAM, 8 MB is best.
2. There are computing power differences between the draft clips and MPEG-1 version.
3. MPEG-2 usually works better becuase it utilizes a software accelerator, the LSX-MPEG Player, which will play very high quality animations with low system requirements.

Can I transfer the MPEG-2 movie, which requires the LSX-MPEG Player, onto another computer so I can give presentations on different computers?

Explanation:

1. The license on the LSX-MPEG Player allows installation on any computer you wish as long as you only have one loaded at a time.
2. You can always purchase a second LSX-MPEG Player if need be.