Putting A Video On Powerpoint 2010

Adding video to your presentation is a great way to make it more interesting, not to mention the perfect way to incorporate your latest demo or promotion in your company presentation instead of having to switch back and forth. between PowerPoint and your video player while presenting. It's very simple to add a video - no harder than adding an image, it seems - but it's a little more complicated actually.

In any modern version of PowerPoint, you can insert video clips from your hard drive, iMovie on your Mac, or online sources and play them while presenting. You can then adjust brightness, contrast, and colors, crop start and end points, and more on your video, right inside PowerPoint. You can even insert YouTube videos directly into a presentation with a little extra tweaking on Windows.

In this tutorial, I'll show you how to add videos to your presentation, edit them the way you want them to play back, and more. Here's everything you need to know about using video in your PowerPoint presentations.

Add videos using Content Slide on Mac or Windows

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You must first add a video to your slide before you can start editing. Here are the best ways to add video to your presentation, on Windows and Mac

In your PowerPoint presentation, insert the slide with content placeholders. Now click on the last of the 6 icons in the middle of that slide. The icon displays Insert Video. The icon might look slightly different, depending on which version of PowerPoint you're using

If you are using PowerPoint 2011 or earlier, clicking the icon will bring up the Insert Video (Windows) or Insert Movie (Mac) dialog box and you can double-click the file you want in your file browser. .

If you're using PowerPoint 2013, you'll see a screen asking if you want to insert a video from your computer or local network or from a cloud platform like Microsoft OneDrive.

There isn't anything special about how to insert a video from a cloud platform. It is just a file storage area. When you click either of the Browse buttons (you can have more than two), you will see a regular Insert dialog.

When you add videos in this way, you can choose any standard video file to be played back on your computer. By default, on Windows you'll probably want to select .wmv videos, and on a Mac you'll want to use .mov videos, or maybe .mp4 will work on both operating systems. Note that PowerPoint won't accept Flash videos (.flv) or Shockwave Flash animations (.swf).

Once the video is in place, notice that it has Play controls at the bottom and a ribbon bar showing two tabs for video control: Format and Playback Playback. On the Mac, the Ribbon will have a single tab, called Format Movie.

You can preview the video by clicking the Play button at the bottom. It will work while you're editing the presentation, and also when you're running the slide show.

Insert Video from Ribbon in Windows

What if you want to insert a video into a slide without content reservations? Here's another way.

From the Home tab, click the down arrow on the New Slide button and choose a Blank blank layout. Don't click the button, as it will insert a different slide from the content layout. You need to click on the arrows.

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Now that we have a blank slide, we will insert a video by going to the Insert tab on the Ribbon bar. To the right of the Ribbon, click the Video button. Depending on which version of PowerPoint you have, you'll have a choice between Online Video and Video on My PC (2013) or Video from File and Clip Art Video (2010 and 2007).

Don't get too excited: Online Video doesn't mean YouTube! It is just a link to cloud storage. Select Video from File and you'll see another standard Insert box. Find the same video clip as before (or use another one if you like), then double-click it. Now when the video is inserted, it will cover the whole slide.

Insert Video from Menu Bar on Mac

Through the 2011 version, PowerPoint for Mac doesn't have an Insert tab on the Ribbon, but it does have an Insert menu. So click the Insert menu, choose Movie, and you'll see two choices: Movie Browser and Movie from File.

Insert a Movie from a regular folder on your Mac

Choose Movie from File, and it works just like in Windows or any other Insert dialog. Find swirl.mov that you downloaded from this page, or find your own video clip, then double-click on it and it will be inserted to fill the entire slide.

Insert a Movie from the Movie Browser

Movie Browser isn't just about movies. It's a small popup window that allows you to browse movies, audio files, photos and other media in the Movie folder, Music folder, and in iMovie, iPhoto, iTunes, Photo Booth and several places. other.

Create another blank slide like you did before. Now click the Insert menu, choose Movie, and this time choose Movie Browser. Note that the Movies tab in Browser is selected and you can go to the location of the file.

On my Mac, I have the file in the Movies folder and you can see the thumbnail at the bottom. If you want to preview the movie, double-click it or click the Play button. Click the Play button again to return to the thumbnail. To insert the video, drag the thumbnail onto the slide. Then you can close the Browser window.

Apply color changes and other effects

Although PowerPoint doesn't have the ability to edit videos, you can make some color corrections and other changes to the inserted video. This works mostly the same in any version.

Make sure the video is selected and the Format tab to the right of the Ribbon is active. Click the Corrections button on the left side of the Ribbon and choose a button if you want. In Windows, the video will show a temporary preview of what the change will look like. On a Mac, you have to click on one of the options to see the effect, and you can always undo (Command-Z on a Mac and Ctrl-Z in Windows).

If you want more fine-grained control, click Video Correction Options at the bottom of the Corrections drop-down menu. That will show the task pane with Brightness and Contrast Contrast sliders and the Recolor button (2013) or a dialog box with these controls (Mac 2010 and2011).

Similar to brightness and contrast is color adjustment. With the video selected, click the Color button and you can change the overall color. Choosing Video Color Options will display the same task pane or dialog box as above.

Set of poster frames

The poster frame is the still image that is displayed before you play the video. By default, the poster frame will be the first frame of the video, but you can change it in two ways:

Select the frame to be displayed at a specific time index

Choose a photo on your computer
First, notice the default poster frame: when you click the slide background so that the movie isn't selected, you can see the poster frame as the first frame. When you click the Play button, the first frame immediately switches to the second frame and the movie will be played.

Change it. At the bottom of the movie, click somewhere along the progress bar until you see a frame you want. Then on the Format tab of the Ribbon, click the Poster Frame button and choose Current Frame.

When you deselect the movie, the still image you see is the frame you just selected. Click the Play button and the movie switches to the first frame and plays from there.

Now let's use an image as a poster frame. Again select the video and click the Poster Frame button, but this time choose Image From File (same screenshot, above).

In Mac versions 2010 and 2011, you will get a regular selection dialog and you can double-click an image you want. In the 2013 version, PowerPoint gives you more options to get pictures: desktop files, Microsoft Office clipart, search for images using Bing, or import pictures from cloud storage or social networking sites if you established .

You can use your own image or if you downloaded the archive for this tutorial you can use the file called rainbow.jpg.

The current movie will display the images you selected.

When you click the Play button, the image disappears and the movie plays normally. If you later decide you want the default poster frame (i.e. the first frame of the movie), choose Reset from the Framing drop-down menu.

Frame the film

Also from the Format tab of the ribbon bar, you can choose a frame for the outer area of ​​the movie by selecting a frame from the long bar of the video styles, but what's really cool is that you can mask the movie with a shape.

Make sure the video is selected and on the Format tab, click Video Shape. Choose a shape, and the movie will be masked inside it!

Change playback options

In all versions of PowerPoint, you can set options for how videos are played, although there are more options in Windows versions.

Change options in Windows

In Windows, make sure to select the video you want to change preferences for, then click the Playback tab on the Ribbon. On the left side of the Ribbon, we have a Trim Video button, which allows us to change the In and Out points of the video.

Click the Trim Video button and in the dialog that appears, drag the blue bar to the right to set the start time, and drag the red bar to the left to set the end time. Or instead of dragging the sliders, you can set the number directly.

Click OK and the video will play for this shorter time. Note that you haven't deleted anything yet: if you want to change those points later, just click the Trim Video button again. The entire clip will be available.

To the right of the Trim Video button, you can set a time for the clip to be dimmed and clearer, though you might not always be satisfied with the results.

The section on the right side of the Ribbon gives you options for how and when the movie should start.

Change options on the Mac

In the 2011 Mac version, Playback Options is a button on the left side of the Format Movie tab on the ribbon bar. It has only four options, as you can see in the screenshots, below. The start and stop options are limited to only two options: start on click and start automatically. Set these options with the drop-down button just above the Playback Options button.

Embed a video on YouTube

In Windows, you can use PowerPoint's developer tools to embed YouTube videos. We do this by inserting a Flash object, which means you won't be able to use most of the options from the previous section in this tutorial.

First, let's start by inserting a new slide with either a blank layout or a header-only layout, like we did before. Now we need to make the development tools work. Right-click anywhere on the Ribbon and from the pop-up menu choose Customize the Ribbon.

This will bring up PowerPoint's Options screen, in the Customize Ribbon section. On the right, check the box for the Developer tab. Then click OK.

There are three steps to insert the Flash object that will be the container for the video (see screenshot, below):

• Click the New Developer tab on the Ribbon.
• In the Controls section, click the last button in the group. It looks like a screwdriver and wrench, and a popup label is named More Controls.

In the dialog box that appears, scroll down and select Shockwave Flash Object, then click OK.
The mouse pointer becomes a cross. Drag on the screen to create a rectangle, and when you release the mouse button, that rectangle will have a large X in it.

Get the link to the video on YouTube

Go to YouTube and find the video you want to embed. For this tutorial, I'll be using an earlier TutsPlus tutorial I did, when embedding PowerPoint Master Slides pages. This video is available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muoSYIpPJvY

Click in the Address bar to select the URL, then right-click and choose Copy from the pop-up menu or press Ctrl-C to copy.

• Use the copied URL as the Source for the Movie
  Make sure the Flash object is selected, then click the Properties button on the Developer tab to show the Properties window.
• In the blank box to the right of the Movie property over the URL you just copied (right-click or press Ctrl-V).
• Edit URL. Change / watch? V = to simply / v /. So for the URL I'm using, it's now:
  http://www.youtube.com/v/muoSYIpPJvY
• Optional: to autoplay the video, add & autoplay = 1 at the end, like so, the URL would look like:
  http://www.youtube.com/v/muoSYIpPJvY&autoplay=1

Now run the slide show and the video will be played. (Tip: press Shift-F5 to play only the current slide.) You may have to play it a few times for the video to save smoothly.

Conclude

PowerPoint has many features for inserting and modifying videos in your presentation. You can insert videos from your computer, from your local network, from the cloud, and even embed YouTube videos if you're on Windows. After inserting a video, you'll find most of the tools you need to tweak it in the Format and Playback tabs in Windows and in the Format Movie tab on Mac.

Adding video to your presentation is a bit tricky, but it's not impossible at all. If you have any problems adding videos to your presentations, leave a comment below and we'll try to help you out.

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