Dumb question, but what's proper way to re-use content?

you can copy and paste slides between presentations but would need to add the audio back in and also resync the slides

Open the presentation that contains the slides that you want to reuse and do a save as and give it a new name. Then just delete the sides that you don't want to reuse.

Thanks for your suggestion, but that won't do it.  I tried to stress in my post that this has nothing to do with "audio", I'm talking about video content.

As for your suggestion Nancy, the problem has to do with adding content with attached video.  Here's an example:

Nancy.pptx has slides with video that I want to use in a new presentation called "Jim.pptx".

There's also a file called Phil.pptx that contains a half dozen slides with other video and text content -- I need those too to go into Jim.pptx.

There's got to be a simple way of doing this right?  Cutting and pasting slides doesn't work.  The appearance of the video content is there but when it comes time to play nothing happens. 

When I try (in the articulate tab) to see what's doing on with the video I get this message (see attached image).

Is there a video in both files? If not try doing it the other way round. There never has been an easy way to combine slides, you may need to reinsert the video

What I'm trying to do is kind use learning "objects" if you will.  I don't want to take too many liberties with computer jargon as I'm not a computer programmer, but the idea is that I have different functional learning objects that include video and audio and text.

I need to "build" courses out of those objects.  Sounds reasonable, right?

Video insertion, sizing and documentation of the filename (as Articulate doesn't seem to track the filename, I have to put that in the "notes" so I know which clip I'm using) is a slow process in Articulate Studio 13 and the program crashes all the time, I really don't want to stress it too much.  Just the simple ability to easily reuse content from one course to another is all I'm looking for. Phil, and Nancy, thanks for your replies.

Phil?  What I'm trying to do in reusing content that sounds reasonable right? I figure I can't be the only one wanting to use the same set of slides twice (and not have to rebuild the video and audio).

It is possible to reuse the slides but you will need to reinsert the audio and most likely the videos as well.

I don't think it unreasonable, in fact I reuse lots of things all the time.  I think this is because Presenter is a Power Point plugin and the information from the PPTA file never gets transferred to the new PPTA file.

Nancy's way is how I would reuse slide, but this won't work for combining slides from 2 or more Presenter files. Presenter has never been great for reusing powerpoint slides.  I also don't think your the only person who would do this, I just don't know how, sorry.