[Solved] Which movie file name is linked?

[mgrogan]

A friend has prepared his presentation in his My Documents folder on his desktop computer.
He does not know which 17 movies he linked to for the presentation that are amongst his many movie files in his My Documents folder.
He needs to backup the presentaion to a USB drive, to put onto his laptop.

Is there a way to find the file name used, when you go to the slide with a movie?

Many thanks

Margaret

[RusselB]

Regretfully it appears the answer to your question is no.
I made a quick little presentation with a couple of movies and didn't see anything to give a name and/or location reference.
I then experimented to see if the referenced file was stored in the Impress presentation, rather than just being linked there, by changing the filename after the presentation had been created, saved, and closed.
I then reopened the presentation, and while there were no errors reported, the slide representation for the movie that I'd changed the name of, showed as a ?
Thus I have to wonder if the presentation is using the filename alone, or is it also referencing the specific named location when the presentation was created?
If the second, then moving the files to a USB drive will have the same effect as changing the filename.

[mgrogan]

Thanks for the reply Russell.
I think I have found a slightly tedious way.
My friend, may eventually want to play his Impress presentation on an iPad, so as Windows girl, I was goggling to find what he should have his movie file types as.
Anyway, I came across this web page:
http://guide2office.com/1456/how-to-ext ... s-and-mac/
So for Impress:
1.Backup your .odp file
2.Rename your .odp to a .zip file
3. Extract the .zip file. Look at the contents of the zip file.
In the above article for PowerPoint, it shows the movie file names in the media folder:

But for my sample .odp, the media file has only the image files eg. jpeg, .png files
But, if you use a text editor, eg Notepad++ (helps to have XML plugin to may it easier to read), to look at the content.xml file, you will see something like this:

<draw:plugin draw:mime-type="video/x-ms-wmv" xlink:href="../lyrebird.wmv" xlink:type="simple" xlink:show="embed" xlink:actuate="onLoad"/>

A little tedious, but it does show you the movie file names used.
Thanks,

Margaret

[RusselB]

Excellent find. Thanks for sharing your solution.

[RoryOF]

It may be appropriate to suggest to the friend of the OP a change in method of working. Because of difficulties in linking multimedia (now historical, I hope... I haven't tried recently), I found it best when preparing a presentation to make a dedicated folder for each presentation, into which I place all the illustrations and multimedia and the actual .odp file for the presentation. When I wish to move the finished presentation from the construction machine (my desktop computer) to the laptop used for the presentation I simply transfer that folder, which contains everything needed for that presentation.

[mgrogan]

... I found it best when preparing a presentation to make a dedicated folder for each presentation, into which I place all the illustrations and multimedia and the actual .odp file for the presentation. ...

Thanks Rory, my friend had forgotten my much earlier suggestion of making a specific folder his presentation.

Margaret

[RoryOF]

Another suggestion: when the presentation (or, better yet, the presentation folder) is moved to the presentation laptop, it is best to run through the presentation on the laptop in private, to be certain that everything is there - don't leave it too late to have time to fix a problem. A monitor can be plugged to the presentation port on the laptop to act as a pseudo projector, so that Presenter Console can display the notes on the laptop and the presentation on the "projector".

[mgrogan]

My friend does go through his whole presentation, at home, with his projector attached to his laptop.
Thanks Rory, will pass that hint re monitor.