Video stops with final frame on first run but black on second run

[jnb]

One of my slides consists of nothing other than a video clip. When this runs first time the clip runs and then stops with the final frame on screen. Showing this last night the speaker asked for the previous slide again to watch the video a second time. On the second run the video clip played properly but instead of then stopping with the final frame on screen it went to a black screen on finishing the video. The animation is set to play after previous and stop on next slide. I am guessing that the stop is still active when we go back to that slide from a following slide.



Is there any way to stop that from happening?

This is on powerpoint 2010 64 bit running on Windows 8 with a dual screen set up.

[JohnWilson]

Never understood why the first run is different. However the second run usually starts by showing the Poster Frame. By default this is frame 1 which is often black. You can change the poster frame which will look a bit better. In edit view wind the video forward until it is not black and then in Video Tools > Format set the poster frame to Current frame.

[jnb]

Thanks for that, it works, or at least it solves that problem. It creates another slight problem which is that the video now starts by flashing up the poster frame which I have set to the last frame of the video. i.e. I used to have

- start of flyin video
- flyin
- stop on destination
- restart flyin video
- flyin
- black screen

now I have

- flash up destination
- start of flyin video
- flyin
- stop on destination
- restart flyin video
- flash up destination
- flyin
- stop on destination

Still not ideal but it's one step forward.