The codec used by SnagIt for video capture is less than fully compatible with the MCI media player used by PowerPoint. I think you are going to need to convert it to something a little more compatible with PowerPoint. There are a number of video editing applications avaiable to do this or you might consider using PFCMedia to automate the entire process from within PowerPoint.
For more information read the media tutorial at;
http://www.pfcmedia.com/Tutorial.htm
Austin Myers MS PowerPoint MVP Team
Provider of PFCMedia http://www.pfcmedia.com
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[Quoted Text] > Hi, > > I am trying to insert avi files into powerpoint. The files are screen > captures of software captured in SnagIt and are high quality but they are > very low quality when they play in powerpoint. The videos show perfectly > in realplayer and are the same size as needed (I am not scaling them in > powerpoint) but they become very grainy with very bad text quality in > their drop-down boxes etc.. > > Any clues would be greatly appreciated >
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