Adding Video

Quick reference

• 00:05 This video is all about Inserting Video into PowerPoint.
• 00:08 We will go to slide two, the Insert tab on the ribbon and we have the media group.
• 00:14 The Videos split button, the Video on my PC and
• 00:19 you can browse to where a video is located and select it, and
• 00:23 notice also you can Insert directly, which is what I normally do, or Link to File.
• 00:28 If you Link to File it means that the video will be kept external
• 00:31 to the saved PowerPoint presentation.
• 00:34 And you would need to distribute the video with that presentation, or
• 00:38 it's not gonna play when it gets to its destination.
• 00:42 So I click Insert, and PowerPoint goes away and loads that video.
• 00:47 Grab the adjust handles,
• 00:49 Ctrl/Shift key to keep it restrained within the current dimensions.
• 00:55 And there is the video, now we can play that.
• 01:00 We can scrub along the timeline.
• 01:03 We can bump forwards or bump backwards.
• 01:07 We have an indicator of the current time of the video,
• 01:10 as well the ability to adjust the sound or mute all the way down.
• 01:17 Notice also on the Format tab, we can apply particular corrections,
• 01:21 such as the brightness or the contrast.
• 01:24 Change the color if we have a particular reason to do so.
• 01:27 Add a poster frame, which is effectively the first frame
• 01:31 of the video that the audience will see before the video plays.
• 01:34 And you can either select a particular frame within the video or an image
• 01:38 from a file.
• 01:39 And reset the design or reset the design and the size, that's quite effective.
• 01:46 Notice also the video styles, as I hover my mouse over them, or
• 01:51 select more, we get particular video effects as well.
• 01:56 And they look quite good in PowerPoint, if you have a reason to do so.
• 02:02 You can also change the video shape and
• 02:05 PowerPoint in this case has kept that style.
• 02:08 It doesn't always work.
• 02:09 You can put a color around the video border.
• 02:12 Control Z to undo that, as well as put a glow on.
• 02:16 And notice that Soft Edges,
• 02:21 it actually doesn't work with that because it has a hard set border.
• 02:25 So that's very good.
• 02:26 Also, at the Playback tab, we can add a bookmark, we can trim the video,
• 02:31 we can Fade In and Fade Out, adjust the volume to Low, Medium, High or Mute
• 02:37 and Play Full Screen, as well as newly Insert Captions if you have.
• 02:43 A WebVTT file, you can add captions, so that's very cool.
• 02:49 So let's start looking at inserting video from the web.
• 02:53 If we go to the Insert tab, the Video split button,
• 02:57 Online Video, and the online video dialogue box pops up.
• 03:02 I'm going to type in my name, Glen Miller and true animation.
• 03:10 Hit enter, and PowerPoint goes away and loads YouTube videos in the background.
• 03:16 Click this particular one who is my son,
• 03:20 Christopher, Insert, and PowerPoint goes away and loads that.
• 03:24 Now currently that is a picture of the video, if you click the Play button.
• 03:32 PowerPoint goes away and loads the actual YouTube video.
• 03:35 And you can click on it.
• 03:36 It will buffer and then play in the background.
• 03:39 And there is a link to that video in your notes that you can have a look at,
• 03:43 including the sound.
• 03:46 Now something here that's quite important.
• 03:47 If you click on the video and go to the Format tab,
• 03:50 you may be tempted to add a particular video style, which looks quite good.
• 03:56 If we go into reading view, PowerPoint pops up, and we click Play.
• 04:05 And that style is consistent, escape.
• 04:10 So let's add a particular color which is Sepia, play.
• 04:16 Now that Sepia effect was on the video, but as soon as PowerPoint
• 04:21 loaded that video in the background, it suddenly disappeared.
• 04:24 So be careful with online videos, some of the effects work and
• 04:28 some video effects actually don't, and it depends more on the particular video.
• 04:33 Okay, let's learn a little bit more about video by combining some multiple effects.
• 04:37 Now I have three images already on a slide that are not animated.
• 04:41 So a horse, a sheep, and a llama and at least I think so.
• 04:45 So if I've got them wrong, please don't write to me.
• 04:48 So let's go to the Animation tab.
• 04:50 Because this image is at the back, I want it to animate first so
• 04:54 that nothing covers it, so click Fade.
• 04:59 I'm going to click the Animation Painter, Animation Painter.
• 05:04 And in our Animation Pane we have we have three images,
• 05:08 the fading is quite slow, I'm going to go After Previous and
• 05:14 set them all to about two seconds.
• 05:17 Control A to select all, Format,
• 05:21 Align to slide, Align center, Align middle.
• 05:27 There, our images are on the slide.
• 05:29 Right click.
• 05:31 Format background.
• 05:32 And I'm going to pick a black color.
• 05:36 So let's preview that in reading view.
• 05:38 The first image comes in which is a horse, and then what I said was a sheep and
• 05:43 then, what I think is, a llama.
• 05:46 If I wanted to, I could actually put a little more space between them.
• 05:50 So 2.5 seconds and 5 seconds.
• 05:54 Let's go to the slide show area, rehearse timings.
• 06:00 So the first image comes in, Second image comes in.
• 06:04 Now, there's a little bit of a delay.
• 06:06 Third image comes in.
• 06:08 Hit enter.
• 06:10 Do you want to save the new slide timings, yes.
• 06:13 And this is very important because now, what we're going to do is export as video.
• 06:17 So I go file, Export.
• 06:21 Create a video.
• 06:23 Now, we can go 4K if our resolution supports it.
• 06:27 I'm gonna go full HD.
• 06:29 Use the Recorded Timings.
• 06:31 Create the video and I'm going to save it in my videos and call it Animals.
• 06:41 Now PowerPoint will go away and create that video.
• 06:43 We get a little indicator, down at the bottom, of how that is progressing.
• 06:48 Control N, clear the layout.
• 06:55 Insert video from my PC, there is our Animals, insert.
• 07:02 If we play that, we get our nice little animals.
• 07:07 So that is a way of creating a video.
• 07:10 Now I'm going to go to the playback tab, trim.
• 07:15 I'm going to get rid of the first animation, So
• 07:21 that I don't start with a black slide.
• 07:24 There is our animation, okay, cool.
• 07:26 Ctrl, Shift bring that down to another size.
• 07:32 I can go Format, Crop, and crop that bit, but
• 07:37 if I hold the Ctrl key, I can crop both sides of the video at the same time.
• 07:42 And then we have a nice little video of three little animals
• 07:46 fading in on the slide.
• 07:48 Now, let's do something really clever.
• 07:50 We'll go insert WordArt, select this particular one
• 07:57 and say, I Love Animals.
• 08:03 We're going to drag that to there.
• 08:06 Add an Animation of Float In, Float down, go to our video.
• 08:14 Now, we're going to do something which is known as a bookmark.
• 08:19 So we've added a bookmark there, or we can remove it.
• 08:22 But what we'll do is, we'll actually scrub through
• 08:26 to roughly where the llama comes in.
• 08:31 Add Bookmark, now that means absolutely nothing until we conclude this animation.
• 08:36 We can fire this animation on the trigger that we set, which is bookmark one.
• 08:41 Now when we go into reading view.
• 08:45 I click on the video and watch as the time line scrubs along.
• 08:50 As soon as it hits that particular bookmark, that animation comes in.
• 08:54 Now, that is something that you can create entirely in PowerPoint.
• 08:58 It's an awesome effect and this file is available for download.

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