How to Insert a Video into a Powerpoint Presentation
One of the coolest functions in Powerpoint 2007 is adding all kinds of media clips to a powerpoint presentation. This was unheard of back in the 1990s but nowadays you can spice up your presentations with videos, music or your voice recording. In this tutorial, I will show you how easy it is to add a video clip to your presentation. You can add the video to an actual slide and let it run on that specific slide.
Please Note: You need to remember two important things so that you don’t run into any problems when adding a video to a slide. First, you don’t actually insert a video into a slide, you tell a slide the location of the video and then it plays it from that location. The video is never really inside of the presentation, so the most important thing to remember is to keep the video file in the same location as your presentation – specially if you’re planning to travel or give the presentation to someone else. Second, the video file needs to be compatible with the programs that Microsoft uses to run video clips. Powerpoint uses these two programs to play video clips: MCI (Media Control Interface) and Windows Media Player. Finally these are the video format files that can run in MCI and Windows Media Player: .AVI (Audio Visual Interleaved), .MPEG, .MPG (Motion Picture Experts Group) and .WMV, .ASF (Windows Media Video).
Go to Start>Programs>Microsoft Program to open the program. Open the presentation that you will be working on. Find the slide where you want to insert the video. Remember to keep the video files in the same folder as the presentation so they have the same location in your computer.
Go to Insert>Movie. The “Insert Movie” pop up window will appear, find the video that you want to insert and hit OK.
Now you can either select the “Automatically” or “When Clicked” buttons. If you want the video to play automatically when the slide appears pick this option or if you want the video to play when you click on it, then select the “When Clicked” option.
Finally, you can go back to the slide and have fun viewing the video.
Fantastic! See how easy it is and what a great impact your presentation will have on your audience by adding a video feature.
