The Article 10 guide to embedding videos into PowerPoint
Today we will give you a ‘how-to’ on embedding video into your slides. This is something that many people struggle with, however it is incredibly powerful when presenting as it boosts live delivery immeasurably, whether you are presenting to thousands at a conference or to one person at a sales pitch. Including a video allows you to communicate memorable, branded concepts rather than dry facts and figures. This reinforces your key messages and bonds them to your audience’s memories.
So here's how (PowerPoint 2003);
• Add video through the ‘insert movie from file’ functionality. This functionality works really well and will let you play a video from a slide in your presentation.
• You’ll be able to control the positioning, size and set triggers for when you’d like the video to play. There are however restrictions.
• PowerPoint will only let you work with a small range of video formats – MPG, AVI and WMV being the main formats. WMV is our preferred format due to the balance between quality, file size and stability in PowerPoint.
• Once the video has been added, you’ll need to keep this file in the same location on your hard drive or copy it into the same folder as the PowerPoint presentation.
• Current versions of PowerPoint don’t actually embed the video clips, they’re kept as external assets so if you plan to distribute the presentation, you’ll need to keep the video file alongside.
The good news is, PowerPoint 2010 (which Article 10 Presentations is currently doing a technical review on) has some incredible video capabilities. These include embedding movie clips fully into a PowerPoint file, plus aesthetic effects that can be applied to a movie such as perspective changes, borders as well as a massive range of Photoshop style effects.
Article 10 have designed a number of video presentations, as well as PowerPoint and Word templates, for many of the UK's most well known companies including Proximity London, BP and NSC Global.
