Insert a (YouTube) Video in Your PowerPoint Presentation.

Posted on January 29, 2008 
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This PowerPoint Tip and Trick is sent in by a great guy called Alexander Smith and he’s from ppt-to-video.com and it is pretty cool Tip and Trick.

 

In fact there are two tricks; the first is a very simple way to download a YouTube Video and how to convert this YouTube video in all kinds of formats and the second real PowerPoint Tip and Trick is how you can insert this YouTube video download into your PowerPoint presentation.

 

There are two steps for inserting a YouTube Video into your PowerPoint presentation.

 

The first step is to download the video from YouTube.

This is the easy part of this PowerPoint Tip and Trick because you just have to visit this website and insert the URL and select your desired Cellphone, iPod and PC video format. Click on start and you’re done with the first step.

 

The second step is for inserting the YouTube video in your PowerPoint presentation.

 

You can use for this the video formats asf, avi, mpeg, or wmv.

 

Before you begin, make sure that you put the movie in the same folder as your PowerPoint presentation. If you later move the PowerPoint presentation to another computer, copy the movie too. Keeping your movie in the same folder as your presentation ensures the link will still work. However, you should always test the movie on a new machine just to be certain. Re-insert the movie, if necessary.

 

·         Now go to Insert.

·         Select Movie

 

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·         And click on Movie from File.

 

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·         Now select the video you want to insert in your PowerPoint presentation.

 

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To insert a video in the earlier PowerPoint versions you’ll need to take the following steps.

 

·         Go to Insert

·         Select Movies and Sounds

·         And click on Movie from File

 

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·         Select the Video that you want to use and click OK.

·         Now you are asked how you want to start the movie.

 

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Recommend choosing automatically even if you want the movie to play when clicked. If you choose When Clicked you have to click the black box to start the movie. Because I don’t like to show the black box on the slide, I do this a little differently.

 

·         Now Right click the movie objects (the small rectangle).

·         And select Edit Movie Object.

 

 

 

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Now the Movie Options dialog box appears.

 

·         Select what you want.

·         And then click OK.

 

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Now you can test the video and slideshow by starting it via F5 or via the menu Slide Show and then View Show.

 

I hope you all enjoyed this PowerPoint Tip and Trick and go check out Alexander’s site ppt-to-video.com, you can find some great tips there. Thanks again for this useful tutorial Alexander. Ill be using this one for sure.

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Comments

7 Responses to “Insert a (YouTube) Video in Your PowerPoint Presentation.”

  1. Lonneke on January 30th, 2008 1:51 am

    Special thanx to Alexander.
    This is a very useful and great post.

    I’ve stumble this one and I gonna save this TIP/trick for sure.
    It may come in handy some day.

    Thanks again for this wonderful tip & trick.

  2. Alex on January 30th, 2008 2:02 am

    It’s my pleasure to sent my tips and tricks to your awesome websites. I will help stumble and digg this tip too.
    And I will keep on watching your website.
    http://www.ppt-to-video.com/link/links.html
    I would like to add your website to my website.
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    Please tell me how do you want me to add to my blog and website.
    Regards
    Alex

  3. Vincent on January 30th, 2008 11:38 am

    Hi Alex,

    I’m glad you like it here and I think it’s awesome that you want to link to us.

    It doesn’t matter which text you use, it would be great though if you use the text Tip and Trick in it since I’m SEO’ing this blog completely at the terms tips and tricks. This is our Link page, take a pick;).

    Thanks again and ill see you around.

  4. TJ Walker tjwalker.com on January 30th, 2008 4:15 pm

    This is a thorough, step-by-step tutorial on how to use video–well done! TJ Walker tjwalker.com

  5. Vincent on January 30th, 2008 5:08 pm

    I’m glad you like it, have fun with it!

  6. Marcus on April 6th, 2008 8:12 pm

    Thanks so much for this post! I just used the steps for a presentation I need to give next week. It works perfectly!

    I’ll bookmark the site to look at other tips.

  7. Vincent on April 6th, 2008 9:53 pm

    Hi Marcus,

    Great that I worked for you, and I’m glad that you’ve decided to stick around. Maybe we’ll talk some more in the future.

    Have fun browsing around.

    Gr.

    Vincent

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