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PowerPoint allows you to insert a video onto a slide and play it during your presentation. This is a great way to make your presentation more engaging for your audience.
You can even edit the video within PowerPoint and customize its appearance. For example, you can trim the video's length, add a fade in, and much more.
Optional: Download our practice presentation.
Watch the video below to learn more about inserting videos in PowerPoint.
In our example, we'll insert a video from a file saved locally on our computer. If you'd like to work along with our example, right-click this link to our example video and save it to your computer.
With the Screen Recording feature on the Insert tab, you can create a video of anything you are doing on your computer and insert it into a slide.
Some websites—like YouTube—allow you to embed videos into your slides. An embedded video will still be hosted on its original website, meaning the video itself won't be added to your file. Embedding can be a convenient way to reduce the file size of your presentation, but you'll also need to be connected to the Internet for the video to play.
The corner sizing handles will resize a video while preserving its original aspect ratio. If you use the side sizing handles, the video will become distorted.
The Playback tab has several options you can use to edit your video. For example, you can trim your video to play an excerpt from the original, add a fade in and fade out, and add bookmarks that allow you to jump to specific points in the video.
Most of the features on the Playback tab can only be used with videos that are inserted from a file. They will not work with embedded videos.
There are other options you can set to control how your video will play. These are found in the Video Options group on the Playback tab.
Like pictures, PowerPoint allows you to format the appearance of a video by applying a video style, adding a border, changing the shape, and applying various effects.
You can add a poster frame to a video, which is the placeholder image your audience will see before the video starts playing. The poster frame is usually just a frame taken from the video itself.
If you want to use a picture from your computer, select Image from file.
To learn more about corrections, color adjustments, borders, shapes and effects, see our Formatting Pictures lesson.
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