Adding Video

Quick reference

• 00:03 This video is all about inserting video, how appropriate? So inserting video into PowerPoint, we’re going to look at insert from file, as well as
• 00:13 from the web and a few formatting and playback options. Click the insert tab, the appropriate slide; we get the little video drop down button in
• 00:22 the media group. Video on my PC is just like inserting a picture except that it’s a video. We have a little drop down arrow that allows us to
• 00:31 filter our search if we wish, but notice particularly the little drop down arrow beside the insert button. We can insert, which will place
• 00:39 our video in our presentation. When we send it to someone, the video will be there in these versions of PowerPoint. If we go link to file, when
• 00:47 you send that presentation to somebody, it will be tiny, but you need to send the video with it or you’re going to be embarrassed. So let’s do a
• 00:56 very simple insert, PowerPoint loads that media, and there is our video and it happens to work out to be the same size as the slide because it’s
• 01:04 actually a video that was exported or saved out off PowerPoint as a video. As we play that, and you can watch those little cool animations, we
• 01:12 get the play and the pause button, the video timeline, which is also a scrubber we get little bump forward and bump back buttons, the
• 01:22 time as well as a mute/unmute and a audio level. And that’s really cool. I’m going to actually grab that video and make it a little bit smaller, so
• 01:32 grab the external handles, and, holding the CTRL and SHIFT key while that runs so that we get a smaller video. Notice that the very first
• 01:40 frame is black, so if I want to actually overcome that, probably the first thing to do is select something that I think represents that video, so
• 01:50 I’ll select that frame, poster frame, current frame, and when that video plays in reading view, that’s the very first thing that people will see
• 02:00 when I click on it, it will start at the commencement of that video. Hit ESC key to stop the video, ESC again to actually stop the
• 02:08 slideshow in reading view. We’ll have a look at a few of the format options. You can color correct, add particular colors, reset the design or the
• 02:21 size, you can add particular video styles; very similar to images including 3D bevels etc, you can change the video shapes, the border as well
• 02:32 as a range of video effects such as soft edges and so forth, they look really good. In terms of playback we can actually trim the video so for
• 02:42 example, if we want to get rid of this little black bit and start with the flower, trim video, the little blue icon shows us or the line shows us where
• 02:52 that’s actually snapped to. We can move along or we can use the little play button or bump it back, use the little spinners or even type the
• 03:00 time in if we know exactly what it is, ok and that it is now trimmed. Not that information is still there. I can go in and untrim that and that will
• 03:09 remain there until you actually compress the video, so that’s very handy. We can fade in, fade out, change the volume, it’s set to play on click
• 03:21 if you’re delivering a presentation you want it to run automatically, do so. You can have it loop. If we look at the animation pane, we can actually
• 03:30 see those animations there so there is this animated rectangle is the group up here and there is this particular entry here. Now the
• 03:40 reason that this is animated is for a very special reason. I'm going to delete that and show you how that was done. So let’s click on the
• 03:48 rectangle and move that so we’ve got a bit of room to work. The one that’s really neat is bookmarks, so say for example, just there we
• 03:59 have a bird. I might want to click in that and call that bird. Then we find that little spot on our timeline, playback, add bookmark, notice the
• 04:13 little yellow dot. Click on that, animation, trigger on bookmark 1. Go to our animation pane and that is now actually a trigger that we can fire so
• 04:26 when we actually run that now, click to play, watch the timeline, as soon as it gets to that little dot, the animation will fire, so as soon as
• 04:39 the bird comes in, and there it is, the little animation, so that’s very cool, and you can use the audio and the video timeline to playback so
• 04:50 many animations, it’s awesome. The other thing that we’re going to look at is insert a video, we’re going to insert one from online. And so
• 05:02 this little dialog box pops up; I can click on, for example, SkyDrive, have a look in documents and there is a particular video there its exactly
• 05:11 the same one. I’m not going to insert it because that will take a little while to download. So inserting video into PowerPoint is very easy; you
• 05:19 can do a range of formatting, you can trigger animations with bookmarks, you can add poster frames, but most importantly, remember if you
• 05:27 link the file you need to send the file with the presentation or it will not run; it will get lost.

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