How To Add Video To Powerpoint For Mac

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Copy the URL of the video you want to insert. Since Mac's version of PowerPoint doesn't let you embed code for any video in your slides, you'll have to copy the URL and go into PowerPoint's Video options to configure the URL. Under 'Movies,' choose your video and drag it to the PowerPoint slide where you want it inserted. Step 3b: In later versions of PowerPoint, when you click 'Insert,' you'll see a drop-down option for Video. Inside, you'll see an option called 'Online Movie'. Click on that and paste the YouTube URL, followed by Insert.

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Video can be a potent tool when used in a presentation. Multimedia techniques add an extra dimension to presentations and give the audience something to focus on. A video can turn an uninteresting presentation into something truly spectacular and keep your audience engaged and interested. Embedding a video in PowerPoint can vary depending on which program version you are using, and what type of device and operating system you are using too. The below are some guidelines as to how to embed a video in PowerPoint.

Embed Video in PowerPoint Mac

PowerPoint can be used on Mac devices and you can also embed video and other multimedia in your presentations. To embed a video in PowerPoint that is stored on your Mac device you must first change the display to normal view. Next, you must click on Insert > Video > Movie from File. Choose the move you wish to insert and then simply press insert. You can then edit how the video displays and plays within your slide.

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Embed Video in PowerPoint 2016

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Microsoft PowerPoint 2016 has many advanced features and embedding video is an extremely easy process on this program. You can insert a video using the insert tab on the top toolbar. To the far right, there is a media section that includes inserting video, audio, and screen recording. Simply click on the video drop down and choose from either an online video or a video stored on your local device or network location.

Embed Video in PowerPoint 2007

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PointPoint 2007 allows users to insert multimedia videos into their presentations. On the main ribbon, select the Insert tab and go across to the media clips group. From here select movie and the insert movie dialog box will appear. Locate your movie and press ok – a message box will then appear asking if you want the movie to be automatically played, or only when clicked.

Embed Video in PowerPoint 2010

Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 has the capability of embedding multimedia objects in your presentations. Embedding a video is a relatively simple process. On the insert tab on the top toolbar, click on the Video drop down box and then select either Video from file, Video from web site or Clip Art Video. Choose your desired video and simply press Insert.

Embed Video in PowerPoint 2013

PowerPoint 2013 is another version of this program that allows videos to be embedded directly into a presentation slide. To insert a video simply click on the Video drop down in the Insert tab and then select either video on my PC or online video. Then simply select the video you wish to use and press insert.

Embed a YouTube video in PowerPoint

YouTube is the most popular online video hosting website available today. Instead of inserting videos from your PC, you can insert YouTube videos directly into your PowerPoint presentations. First, you must locate the video on YouTube and copy the URL. Next, go to the insert tab and click the Video drop down – finally click online video and paste the URL into the address box.

Powerpoint cannot insert a video from this embed code

This is a known error message that prevented many YouTube videos from being embedded into PowerPoint presentations. This message would appear sometimes when trying to embed a video into Powerpoint 2010 but the bug has been fixed. Always ensure to check the Embed link if you are trying to embed a YouTube video.

Powerpoint cannot insert a video from the selected file

This error message usually displays when you are trying to insert an incorrect file format into PowerPoint. PowerPoint only supports a set amount of video file types and if you try to insert a format that is unsupported, this error message will display. MPEG-2 videos, for example, are not supported.

Videos are an effective way to explain complicated subjects or demonstrating a product or process. That's why many people want to embed a video to PowerPoint presentation. But PowerPoint doesn't support any video format to embed. For example, if you insert an AVI video to PowerPoint, you may get failure. To make it more clear, you can see the supported video and audio formats of PowerPoint below.

Video and audio file formats supported in PowerPoint

Applies To: PowerPoint 2016 PowerPoint 2013 PowerPoint 2010 PowerPoint 2007 More...

Video recommendations: In PowerPoint 2010, we recommend that you use .wmv files. In PowerPoint 2013 and later, and in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac, for the best video playback experience, we recommend that you use .mp4 files encoded with H.264 video (a.k.a. MPEG-4 AVC) and AAC audio.

Audio recommendations: In PowerPoint 2010, use .wav or .wma files. In newer versions of desktop PowerPoint, use .m4a files encoded with AAC audio.

This supported video and audio formats are extracted Office Support site. So the information will be credible. From the information, we can know clearly that AVI is not a friendly format to PowerPoint, especially to PowerPoint 2013 and later versions. To fix the problem that PowerPoint doesn't accept AVI, you can use a file converter to convert AVI to PowerPoint more supported MP4 video for PowerPoint 2013 and later version or transcode AVI to WMV for PowerPoint 2010 or 2007 version.

Best Software to Convert AVI to PowerPoint 2016, 2013, 2010, 2007

A web search for 'video converter' will show you numerous converters. One of the excellent video converters is Pavtube Video Converter. This award-winning video transcoder can transcode various AVI videos to PowerPoint 2016, 2013, 2010, 2007. It can convert DivX AVI, XviD AVI to PowerPoint and also can transcode Fraps AVI, Camtasia Studio AVI, Action! RAW AVI files to PowerPoint supported WMV and H.264 MP4 with AAC audio. You can freely check and change the video and audio codec, bitrate, frame rate to make the video more suitable for PowerPoint.

Before converting AVI to PowerPoint, you can trim a long AVI video to a small clip or merge some AVI clips into a single one file. If your AVI video has some black area, you can crop it using this software. If needed, you also can insert and hard burn external subtitles to the AVI video files. Pavtube Video Converter works only on Windows. For Mac users, the equivalent Pavtube Video Converter for Mac can help convert AVI to PowerPoint on macOS High Serria, macOS Sierra and El Capitan.

Step-by-Step to Re-encode AVI to PowerPoint 2016, 2013, 2010, 2007

Step 1. Load AVI files

Once you have successfully launched the AVI to PPT Converter software, the very next step is to load the video AVI file that you want to convert. There are two methods with which you can load the files. You can add the files easily by dragging it into the interface or by clicking on the “Add Files” button located at the top. Once you have clicked on the “Add Files” button, it will open a file explorer from where you can choose the desired .avi video file for conversion. This software supports batch conversion so that you can add multiple AVI files to batch convert to PPT.

In addition, Pavtube Video Converter also supports to convert MP4, MKV, FLV, etc to PPT, so you can add other formats video here.

Step 2: Choose PowerPoint Supported format

What format should we choose? It depends. If you use PowerPoint 2013 and later version, the MP4 format is suggested while WMV format is recommended for PowerPoint 2010 and lower version.

After selected the format, you can click 'Settings' to check the video and audio parameters. For example, you should make sure that if your MP4 video is H.264 video codec and AAC audio codec. If you need to reduce the video size, you can adjust video bitrate. The output video size can be previewed at the bottom chart.

Step 3: Start to convert AVI to PowerPoint

Press on 'Convert' button to start to convert AVI to PowerPoint 2016, 2013, 2010, etc. Once the conversion ends, you can get the generated files in output folder.

How to Embed Converted AVI to PowerPoint?

In PowerPoint 2010 and later, you can link or embed a video from your PC directly into your presentation. So you can directly add your converted AVI video to PowerPoint from PC or you can upload your video to YouTube then insert the URL to the PPT.

Embed a video stored on your PC

1. In Normal view, click the slide in which you want to embed the video.

2. On the Insert tab, in the Media group, click the arrow under Video.

3. Select Video from file, and then browse to the location of your video, and select it.

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4. On the Insert button, click the down arrow, and then click Insert.

Link to a video stored on your PC

1. On the Slides tab in Normal view, click the slide to which you want to add a video or animated GIF file.

2. On the Insert tab, in the Media group, click the arrow under Video.

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3. Select Video from file, and then browse to the location of your video, and select it.

4. On the Insert button, click the down arrow, and then click Link to file.

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