Railfan_Bill Loc: "Lost Wages", Nevada

I know this has little to do with photography, but is actually does since I am trying to embed a mp4 video in my presentation. Ok, here is the problem: I made a time lapse of the Milky Way and I want to embed it in a Astrophotography presentation. My computer is using Windows 7 Premium and PowerPoint 2010. I select Insert tab and click on Video in the toolbox. When I select the file and embed it , I tried to play it. All I get is a green screen and no video. What is wrong? I am hoping some one else found the solution. RFB

Speenort

You may need to get a video editor that can do chroma-key. I use Shotcut, it's free with good tutorials.

Robertski Loc: So California

Don't use the word combination "Green Screen" to describe your issue, otherwise you'll get unrelated "ChromaKey" advice. Best that you Google all relevant keywords and describe it as "no Video" black or greenish colored video. There is much written about this common affliction depending on how your PPT is set up and what media player & codecs are launching to play the video and whether hardware acceleration is ON in your display settings. You can Google... "disable hardware acceleration" for PPT2010 & Win7. While you may want it to speed other programs, the graphics card may not have current mp4 codecs, and software may work better.