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Hello,

I have three 30-second videos saved in WMV format that I want to embed in a PowerPoint file. I am able to embed them so they work. The problem is that each video is 6MB in size. PowerPoint must somehow shrink the video, but even so my PP file ends up being 11 MB in size overall. It is too big for me to email it to people (their email system rejects it due to its size).

I have played around with all kinds of options using iWisoft free video converter. I have saved the videos in mpeg, flv, mov formats. The WMV seems to work the best, but I need to make the overall files smaller. The videos are not full screen, they are playing in a window that is roughly 3" x 5"

Any suggestions?

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Nrisimha

If you have any question you can freely ask me forexplanation.

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Nrisimha

Thanks Echo_S,

But I have an comment - look above what MrChip2 said:

"I have three 30-second videos saved in WMV format that I want to embed in a PowerPoint file.
I am able to embed them so they work. "

Nrisimha

Echo_S

Yes, I interpreted that as *they work on his machine.* I'm just adding a caveat that they may not work on someone else's machine.

My caution was for the author of the question and has nothing to do with what you posted.

Chip Levinson

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Thank you both for your comments and suggestions. Echo S you are correct, I have no way of knowing if they have a current or old version of PowerPoint. I guess I could give them two version - one with and one without video.

Nrisimha, thanks for the tip. I will try that out and let you know. It may be a day or so until I post an answer. Can you flag this thread so you are notified when I post?

Nrisimha

Hello MrChip2,

Thanks also to you.

I have forgotten to say something about a BAT script. This script, in fact, can convert WMV file to AVI. But you can enter a name of files with formats FLV, MP4, MOV or MKV and you will get AVI file.

So, you can simply edit file WMV9_Converter.bat in Notepad and change a text:

echo. Enter a name of your WMV file.

with this one:

echo. Enter a name of your video file.

And save this correction. Now, you will have a script that converts video files in FLV, MP4, MOV or MKV format into AVI file.
Also, you can rname then WMV9_Converter.bat script into AVI_Converter.bat

And one notice - with this script and program I can convert video files with resolution 1024x768 into high quality files that has only 1,8 MB for 60 seconds of video length with audio with 128 kbps!!!

So, your WMV files with dimensions 3" x 5" and 6MB that have duration of 40 seconds are "huge" file from my perspective.
Just one thing to know what you got - this video convertor is not a usual convertor like the others shareware and freeware that works with video bitrate.
No, this script that I made, works with a quality of input video file to preserve high quality, but on the other side it convert input file into much, much smaller file.

Well, now you can use any quality factor from 27 - 51. This quality factor represents a compression of video file at lower bitrates, and for higher value of this factor you will get a smaller file in MB.
You can free experiment with your short videos and take a factor even to 30 or 36 or 45 or 50.
I believe that you can immediatelly use quality factor 45 for testing.
And you will see which value is good for your project. Because you can always delete Final.avi file and run this WMV9_Converter.bat again and enter some different quality value.

good luck

Nrisimha