Two Videos on one slide

Hi Martin!

This would be the expected behavior. Check out this thread for some ideas that may assist you.

I've noticed it is possible to add 2 or more videos (or SWFs) on a single slide in AP13 if you hide every imported video/swf using the selection and visibility pane in PowerPoint.  Keep in mind you won't be able to synchronize the videos to the player control/scrubber, so make sure to add individual controls to each video, and that they are set to play when clicked. 

To add multiple videos, import the first video and open the selection and visibility pane in PowerPoint (click ALT+F10).  Locate your imported video, which should have been renamed to a long string of alphanumeric characters, and "poke" the eye symbol next to it to hide it.  The video should no longer be visible.  Import your second video and repeat the procedure until you add all of them to the slide.  When finished, click all the empty eye boxes to restore visibility of all the videos, otherwise they will not publish.

...and that's why our community is awesome. Thanks for sharing Nelson :)

It works! Perfect! Thank you very much for this very helpful hint!

Regards

Martin

Awesome. Thanks for popping back in and letting us know that Nelson's solution works for you!

Thanks again Nelson.

A few other tricks you can try:

1.  We use poster images to put multiple links to videos on one slide.

2.  At times we use multiple layers to allow for multiple videos in one slide.

3.  If we want to have two videos playing simultaneously, we combine them in a video tool and then export them into one single video.

HTH

Thanks for sharing as well Rob :)

Nelson! That is a cool hack!

Another method that works is to use Quizmaker for that page.  You can use a blank slide in Quizmaker and insert multiple videos.  Use the timeline to set the duration of each of the inserted videos.  As the first completes it will disappear, then have the second appear and begin.  You can then add as many video clips as needed.  When you save this back into the Presenter file, it comes in as a single slide.

Thanks for sharing Darrell!

Thank you, that just saved me hours, I used Nelsons method - awesome.

Rob, would you share what video tool you use to combine them? I'm looking to develop a resource for a school with a large deaf population and would like to be able to have a 'double video' of someone speaking and someone signing.

Hi Rebecca!

Since this thread is a bit older, you might also try sending a direct message to Rob through the Contact Me link on his ELH Profile page. :)