How can I get my AVI file into a Powerpoint Presentation?

[TripleAAA]

I'm sorry....I know this is the wrong forum, but I also know this is the forum where most people look, and I need to get an answer soon if anyone can help. Sorry mods...won't happen again:

I have a Canon-A40 digital camera and want to take a very short video clip and put it into my powerpoint presentation for a class, but it says....

"Cannot display this type of sound or movie"

Anyone know how I can do this? I'm pretty sure it's in AVI format. Thanks

 

[TripleAAA]

Boo hooo.....nobody loves me. :frown:

 

[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: TripleAAA
Boo hooo.....nobody loves me. :frown:

Of course not, you posted this in Off-Topic instead of in Software. You don't deserve an answer misposter-boy!!

 

[imported_Mike]

not familiar with what file type you need it to be to put into pp? pp wont take an avi? google is god for unknown information

 

[atom]

Link, don't embed.

 

[radioouman]

You can take movie files into Powerpoint. The only problem that you may have is if you need a video codec to play it. (Meaning that you might have this presentation working perfectly on your home computer, but when you take it to class it may not play the movie because the codec doesn't exist on that computer.)

 

[iamwiz82]

embedding wont work, you must link to it.

 

[TripleAAA]

Can someone define "embed" vs "link" and how I would go about doing that? I'm using my own laptop for the presentation and just hooking it up to a projector.

Thanks again and sorry for the mispost, I'm just desperate here.