\nI’m trying to find a way to compress videos in PowerPoint. We have hundreds of PowerPoints we’ve designed over the years, some of them hundreds of slides long, many containing 1 or 2 gigabytes of video. The PowerPoint’s embedded video is taking up the majority of our file server space, in these PowerPoints. We need the videos embedded, although the quality should be reduced. Linking the media is not an option. The time it would take to manually export, compress each video, then embed again could take us many days or weeks. PowerPoint should already have this feature built in as described.Compress your media files does not work.
\nCompress your media files - Microsoft Support<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
When we attempt to compress video at any resolution, no videos can be compressed.
\nWhen attempting to compress, we get these notices:<\/p>\n
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- “Unsupported”.<\/li>\n
- “These media files could not be compressed”
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AdvertisementI thought the PowerPoint file format, video format or resolution may have been unsupported, so I exported and viewed the video properties. The videos are already in a standard format:<\/p>\n
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- MP4 video at Full HD 1080p.<\/li>\n
- PowerPoint file version is already modern, (.pptx)<\/li>\n<\/ul>","upvoteCount":10,"answerCount":6,"datePublished":"2023-04-07T13:47:59.000Z","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"anthonytechguy","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/anthonytechguy"},"suggestedAnswer":[{"@type":"Answer","text":"
Any help would be greatly appreciated.<\/p>\n
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- Do you have any recommendations on how to fix this?<\/li>\n
- Alternatively, are you aware of any third party toll that can scan and reduce the media in PowerPoints?
\nI’m trying to find a way to compress videos in PowerPoint. We have hundreds of PowerPoints we’ve designed over the years, some of them hundreds of slides long, many containing 1 or 2 gigabytes of video. The PowerPoint’s embedded video is taking up the majority of our file server space, in these PowerPoints. We need the videos embedded, although the quality should be reduced. Linking the media is not an option. The time it would take to manually export, compress each video, then embed again could take us many days or weeks. PowerPoint should already have this feature built in as described.Compress your media files does not work.
\nCompress your media files - Microsoft Support<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\nWhen we attempt to compress video at any resolution, no videos can be compressed.
\nWhen attempting to compress, we get these notices:<\/p>\n- \n
- “Unsupported”.<\/li>\n
- “These media files could not be compressed”
\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nI thought the PowerPoint file format, video format or resolution may have been unsupported, so I exported and viewed the video properties. The videos are already in a standard format:<\/p>\n
- \n
- MP4 video at Full HD 1080p.<\/li>\n
- PowerPoint file version is already modern, (.pptx)<\/li>\n<\/ul>","upvoteCount":10,"datePublished":"2023-04-07T13:47:59.000Z","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/t/cant-compress-videos-in-powerpoint/949695/1","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"anthonytechguy","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/anthonytechguy"}},{"@type":"Answer","text":"
If your files are on a shared area, copy a few over to local storage and try again.
\nIf the codec in use is unable to work on UNC paths it’s going to fail.
\nThe media files may also already be optimized, it wont run again if they are.<\/p>","upvoteCount":0,"datePublished":"2023-04-07T15:42:04.000Z","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/t/cant-compress-videos-in-powerpoint/949695/2","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Rod-IT","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/Rod-IT"}},{"@type":"Answer","text":"