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Extract embedded video file from Powerpoint on OSX

Duncan Epping · Oct 2, 2017 · 38 Comments

I received a couple of presentations over the past weeks which had an embedded video file in it, but needless to say this article will handle all types of embedded files. I needed the source file but unfortunately the person who developed the demo video did not have it any longer. Latest versions of Powerpoint for Mac OSX don’t have the option to copy/paste the file somewhere else, there’s also no “right click save as” option unfortunately. So how do you grab this file?

Well according to the sources found on google it is simple, you rename the Powerpoint .PPTX file to zip and simply unzip it. I tried that, but my zip file then got unzipped to a zip.cpgz file. Which I then would try to unzip but again would lead to a zip file. Going around in circles. But there’s a solution for it. If simply double clicking after renaming doesn’t work, try the following procedure:

Open a terminal window:

  • To open Terminal, go to Applications > Utilities > Terminal
  • Go to the folder where the file is located, in my case Desktop/test
    cd ~/Desktop/test
  • Unzip the file (my filename is presentation.pptx)
    unzip presentation.pptx

If that doesn’t work, rename the presentation.pptx to presentation.zip and try the above procedure, of course with the correct file name!

Now you should see 3 folders in finder (docProps, _rels and ppt) and an additional file (.xml). If you go in to the folder “ppt” you will find a folder “media”. That folder will contain all media files, which includes pictures/photos/soundbites and your videos!



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  1. Sebbie says

    18 December, 2017 at 15:46

    Thank you, this worked for me πŸ™‚

    Reply
    • Thom Qafzezi says

      9 January, 2018 at 18:23

      This worked for me too, but for some reason the sound didn’t come with it. I can see the videos, but can’t hear them. Anyone else have that issue?

      Reply
  2. Thom Qafzezi says

    9 January, 2018 at 18:24

    Never mind. I did it again and this time it came through. Sorry for the previous post.

    Reply
  3. Olivia Nanda says

    25 January, 2018 at 18:26

    can you advise on the “opening a terminal window” step? Or share screenshots? I opened a terminal and typed “unzip documentname.zip” and it said it cannot find πŸ™

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    • Justin Jones says

      1 February, 2018 at 00:07

      To open Terminal, go to Applications > Utilities > Terminal. Once Terminal is open, then you can enter the commands. I created a “test” folder on my desktop so it would work exactly as the author described and entered this command:

      cd ~/Desktop/test

      Then enter:

      unzip your_document_name.zip

      Hope this helps!

      Reply
    • Tricia says

      14 May, 2018 at 05:09

      This was so helpful thank you!

      Reply
  4. Frantisek Ferencik says

    26 January, 2018 at 11:18

    Duncan thank you very much for this! πŸ™‚

    Reply
  5. Juan Guillermo Trillos says

    20 February, 2018 at 17:30

    Worked beautifully!

    Reply
  6. Larry S says

    7 March, 2018 at 16:47

    This is probably the best powerpoint related information I have ever seen. I have a client that has decades old powerpoint files with embedded videos that we need to pull the video from and convert to MPEG-1 so the powerpoint files will work on both Windows and Mac.
    Problem Solved
    Bravo!

    Reply
    • Duncan Epping says

      8 March, 2018 at 19:14

      thanks πŸ™‚

      Reply
  7. chrisn3xt says

    2 April, 2018 at 05:54

    Brilliant, thank you.

    Reply
  8. Jeff says

    7 April, 2018 at 03:33

    thank you
    works perfectly

    Reply
  9. Michael Berkman says

    7 April, 2018 at 18:08

    Hmmm. Not working for me at all. Just updated Mac OS to 10.14.4. Wonder what’s wrong.

    Reply
    • Michael Berkman says

      7 April, 2018 at 18:11

      FYI, the error is unzip: cannot find or open presentation.zip, presentation.zip.zip or presentation.zip.ZIP.
      Do I need to have WIN.zip installed? I renamed my ppt. file to presentation.zip (in a folder called test on my desktop) and when I click on it, it creates a file with the same extension you described with the endless zip loop. Any obvious things wrong?

      Reply
      • Michael Berkman says

        7 April, 2018 at 18:15

        I ended using a program called The Unarchiver which did the trick.

        Reply
        • Duncan Epping says

          7 April, 2018 at 20:30

          thanks for providing the solution to your problem, hopefully will also help others!

          Reply
      • Issara says

        19 September, 2018 at 02:14

        I experienced the same thing even though I didn’t right click, but just renamed the file, exactly as shown in the instructions. Here’s what to do if this happens to you – just hit ‘A’ (capital, not lowercase), and hit enter.

        By the way, thank you for posting this workflow. You are a saint.

        Reply
  10. Ashish Parikh says

    18 April, 2018 at 14:56

    Thank you! Very helpful and worked like a charm.

    Reply
  11. Danielle Giroux says

    1 May, 2018 at 20:40

    Brilliant! This worked perfectly, I was going in circles with the zip/unzip too – so happy to come across this article, thank you!

    Reply
  12. AS says

    2 May, 2018 at 13:20

    THesteps above didn’t work for me, and using the unarchiver programme just gave me back my pptx file. But I got it to work by simply opening my pptx file (presentation.pptx in the example given in this thread) with Unarchiver. So there was no need to zip/ unzip the file first. thanks all for your contributions!

    Reply
  13. Zaid says

    21 May, 2018 at 09:31

    THANK YOU!!!!!!

    Reply
  14. Kylie says

    23 May, 2018 at 19:35

    This worked perfectly for me yesterday! yet, Today i’m doing the same exact thing and it’s not working. After I hit enter it says:
    Archive: microwave_2.zip
    replace [Content_Types].xml? [y]es, [n]o, [A]ll, [N]one, [r]ename:

    Not sure what I can do! I’ve tried all of the responses.

    Thanks for any help

    Reply
    • Nate says

      20 June, 2018 at 19:14

      Seconded. This used to work and now I receive the same prompt that Kylie noted.

      Reply
    • Nate says

      20 June, 2018 at 19:18

      Ah, found the issue. Don’t right-click and compress the file to zip it — Duncan had written that we should actually change the name of the file itself to end in .zip. I misinterpreted what he wrote.

      Reply
  15. Jodi says

    18 June, 2018 at 05:49

    OMG I can’t say thank you enough!! Superb!

    Reply
  16. Darwin says

    23 August, 2018 at 18:02

    Thank you! Wonderful tip.

    Reply
  17. Andy says

    2 September, 2018 at 23:58

    Awesome! Worked like a charm

    Reply
  18. Denise Lu says

    11 September, 2018 at 07:59

    thank you so much! this did the trick πŸ™‚

    Reply
  19. Rob C says

    15 September, 2018 at 02:46

    Brilliant. Thanks very much.

    Reply
  20. Liz says

    21 September, 2018 at 14:44

    Between Duncan’s original post and Nate’s explanation of his misinterpretation (which I had also misinterpreted), this worked like a charm. Thank you very much – fantastic explanation!

    Reply
  21. Kat says

    24 September, 2018 at 02:33

    THANK YOU!!!!

    Reply
  22. Chris Tabb says

    1 October, 2018 at 18:01

    Thank you!!!

    Reply
  23. Dave says

    2 October, 2018 at 01:50

    Thanks so much for sharing your expertise, Duncan. You saved our event, as speakers providing late presentations (containing embedded video) always seem to think it’s no problem. We need to convert them to ProPresenter slides and individual videos.

    Reply
    • Duncan Epping says

      9 October, 2018 at 11:55

      great to hear this helped you!

      Reply
  24. Karen says

    23 October, 2018 at 00:39

    THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! You saved my bacon tonight!

    Reply
  25. Ian says

    14 November, 2018 at 11:01

    Thank you! Works like a charm even for a completely untechnical person

    Reply
  26. David says

    19 February, 2019 at 06:40

    Awesome! Thanks for the tip! πŸ˜€

    Reply
  27. Peter Fay says

    26 February, 2019 at 17:50

    Thanks for the clear instructions, worked like a charm!

    Reply

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Duncan Epping is a Chief Technologist in the Office of CTO of the Cloud Platform BU at VMware. He is a VCDX (# 007), the author of the "vSAN Deep Dive", the β€œvSphere Clustering Technical Deep Dive” series, and the host of the "Unexplored Territory" podcast.

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