Playing movies in slow or fast motion

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Problem

I want to to put a movie on a PowerPoint slide and play it back in slow or fast motion.

Solution

If you add a movie via Insert, Movies And Sounds, Movie From File, you can't change the playback speed.

But PowerPoint MVP and Media Wizard Austin Myers reports that you can use this trick:

• From the control toolbox place an instance of Windows Media Player on the slide.
• Right click the Windows Media Player control and select Properties.
• For the URL property, type the path to your media file.
• In Properties click "Custom" then the Advanced tab.
• The default "Rate" is 1.0000 change it to .5000 to have the movie play at half speed, or change it to .25000 for quarter-speed playback. Or set the rate higher than 1.0000 for faster-than-normal playback.

Look out, Charlie Chaplin.

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