THE ANNOYANCE: I had to design a new organizational chart using our company colors and ended up with white text on a yellow background. When you finish the presentation, make sure you restore your original monitor settings. Once you find it, click the Apply button, and then click OK to get back to your presentation. You’re looking for an option to switch the “Primary” and “Secondary” output. Click the Settings tab, and then click the Advanced button.
To change your monitor, right-click your desktop and select Properties. This will make the LCD projector the primary monitor, which means you will see the black box on your laptop screen, but your audience will see the video. Hold down the Fn button and press the appropriate F key to toggle the laptop display (see “Image Doesn’t Show on Projector”).īecause the video plays on the primary monitor (the laptop), but not on the secondary monitor (the LCD projector), you can try changing your primary monitor in Windows. The most reliable resolution is to toggle the laptop display so that it shows only on the projector.
THE FIX: You’re not doing anything wrong this is an issue with the combination of hardware and software you’re using: the video card, the video driver, the video itself, and PowerPoint. Subscribe to get more articles like this oneĭid you find this article helpful? If you would like to receive new articles, join our email list.THE ANNOYANCE: No matter what I do, I can’t get this video to play on the projector and laptop at the same time it will only play on the laptop. You can create some interesting video thumbnails with the Poster Frame command in PowerPoint.
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The Poster Frame command appears on the Video Tools Format or Video Format tab in the Ribbon when a video is selected:ĭo you want to learn more about PowerPoint? Check out our virtual classroom or live classroom PowerPoint courses > Screenshots in this article are from 365 but are similar in previous versions of PowerPoint. For example, the Video Tools Playback tab may appear as Video Playback. For PowerPoint 365 users, Ribbon tabs may appear with different names. Note: Buttons and Ribbon tabs may display in a different way (with or without text) depending on your version of PowerPoint, the size of your screen and your Control Panel settings. A picture thumbnail could be either an image or an icon. You can use the Poster Frame command to display a different frame in the video clip or a picture from another source as a thumbnail. For most videos, the thumbnail that displays is the first frame of the video clip. The thumbnail will display when you run a PowerPoint slide show and disappears when you start the video. If you have inserted a video on a PowerPoint slide, you can display a custom thumbnail (or Poster Frame) for the video during a slide show. Changing the Thumbnail of a Video Clip in PowerPointīy Avantix Learning Team | Updated October 9, 2021Īpplies to: Microsoft ® PowerPoint ® 2016, 2019 and 365 (Windows)