I've inserted a video file in to PowerPoint 2010 - it's an mpeg video I made last night in Adobe Premiere Elements 9. The video plays fine in Windows Media Player on the same machine, but in PPT, plays only the first 30 seconds of audio.

The audio then cuts, but strangely, the video continues playing normally. Boringly, this happens in PPT 2010 on both my desktop and laptop.

Was wondering if anyone had experienced this or, particularly, fixed it?



Thanks in advance for any help...

Same exact problem. Movie clip is .mpg, 5 minutes long, 243MB.

Any suggestions on how to fix this problem???

Ok, I solved the problem by re-rendering the video in Adobe Premier Elements as a WMV file (instead of mpg). Works fine now...

I have run into the same problem trying to play long or short mpg files on my laptop, which has Windows 7 Professional and a Blu-ray drive. All I get is 30 seconds of audio and then just video. Slides with audio play fine, with no cutoff at 30 seconds. This is the case whether I run the PPT from the hard drive or a DVD or a USB drive. The puzzling thing is that the PPT works fine on my old XP desktop - it plays both video and audio from mpg files with no problem. I tried embedding the video but you don't seem to be able to jump out of the video to the next slide very easily. It seems sluggish, too.
Going to wmv files is not a solution for me. Life's too short to re-render all my mpg files as wmv files. There has to be a more sensible solution. Any suggestions?