Removing Video from Presenter Panel +

Oct 08, 2012

I added a video to the Presenter panel but it doesn't look right?  How the heck do I remove that video?  I thought it should be straightforward, but I can't figure it out.

As well, am I understanding properly that I can't advance/sych my slides to respond to what the narrator is saying if the video of the narrator  is in the Presenter panel? 

I'm just pretty confused.  Thanks.

Judy

5 Replies
Peter Anderson

Hey Judy

After you add a movie to your presenter panel, you'll see a little Flash icon in the upper-left of your slide in Powerpoint. If you select that icon on your slide and press your delete key, it'll remove the video.

But if you decide to keep the video, as for syncing the Presenter Panel video with your slide animations, take a look at this unsupported workaround. Hopefully that helps. 

Good luck!

Judy B.

Once again, thanks so much Peter.  I'm not sure why I was having such a hard time removing a video when I initially posted.  I thought I triedd deleting the Flsh video placeholder from the slide, but I clearly didn't it's as easy as pie.

The Dave Moxon posting is fabulous!  So many ideas there that I can use.

I'm sure you've seen this before, but I'm including a screen capture of the large-size video in the presenter panel...it looks so cool.  I'd resize it to allow some of the slide titles to appear...but I'm thrilled I now know how to make this work.

Thanks again.

Judy

Peter Anderson

Hi Judy, 

Looks great! Glad you're getting closer to exactly what you want What is the current size of your video? You can check the size of the video in an application called Swiff Player, a free player which you can download here. Check out the movie properties to see the size. You can then change the size of your published video by editing the presentation.xml fille in the data folder of your published files (but please keep in mind, this isn't supported, and you'll have to make the change after each publish). 

Good luck!

Judy B.

 Peter, thanks so much for the reply.  If you no longer want to continue with this unsupported process, please just let me know, but I don't know where to change the dimensions of the Presenter panel video.  I got the dimensions of the video by seeing its properties in the Swiff Player application (320 X 240) but I don't know where in the presentation.xml code to try to change the dimensions.

The code I assume I'm to look at is the top part (as I see the code for each slide begins at the bottom of what I've copied here, and there is nothing after the slides' code.)

Am I doing the wrong thing?

Thanks.

Judy

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