Inserting a Flash Movie in a PowerPoint Presentation

Overview

Swiff Point Player is a Microsoft PowerPoint Add In that enables you to insert and play your Flash movies into your PowerPoint 2000 and 2002 presentations.

Swiff Point Player requires the Macromedia Flash Player for Microsoft Internet Explorer to be installed on the computer. Be sure that the Flash Player ActiveX Control is correctly installed on the computer. For more information about the installation of the Macromedia Flash Player, please visit the Macromedia web site.

Download Swiff Point Player 2.0 at http://www.globfx.com/ or http://www.craigmont.org/SwiffPointPlayer20.exe or click on Download icon below.

How to insert a Flash movie in a PowerPoint presentation?

1.       Launch Microsoft PowerPoint

2.       From the Insert menu on the main toolbar, select item Flash movie...

3.       From the standard Open dialog box, browse your computer to select the desired Flash movie (file extension *.SWF)

4.       Once inserted, scale and place the Flash movie within the slide.

5.       Launch the presentation (shortcut key: F5).

6.  In slide view, double click on the inserted movie placeholder to view the following Swiff Point information about the Flash movie.  Notice the Length: information to see how long the movie should take to play in its entirety.  This information can be used to set the slide transition to advance automatically after the movie plays or it can be used in sorter view to rehearse timings.

System Requirements

• Windows 98/ME/NT4/2000/XP
• Microsoft PowerPoint 2000/XP/2003
• Pentium 233 MHz or higher
• 32 MB RAM
• 4 MB of free disk space
• Macromedia Flash Player installed

Frequently Asked Questions

Swiff Point Player FAQ is available on the GlobFX Support Website.


How to uninstall Swiff Point Player?

1.       From the Windows Start menu, Select Programs > Swiff Point Player

2.       Select Uninstall Swiff Point Player