Adding Video

Quick reference

• 00:04 This video is all about inserting video, how appropriate.
• 00:07 So inserting video in a PowerPoint.
• 00:09 We're going to look at insert from file, as well as from the web, and
• 00:12 a few formatting and playback options.
• 00:15 Click the insert tab, the appropriate slide.
• 00:18 We get the little video dropdown button in the media group.
• 00:22 Video on my PC is just like inserting a picture, except that it's a video.
• 00:25 We have a little dropdown arrow that allows us to filter our search if we wish,
• 00:30 but notice particularly the little dropdown arrow beside the insert button.
• 00:34 We can insert which will place a video in our presentation.
• 00:38 And when we send it to somebody,
• 00:39 the video will be there in this version of PowerPoint.
• 00:42 If we go link to file, when you send that presentation to somebody,
• 00:45 it will be tiny size, but you need to send the video with it or
• 00:48 you're not going to be able to play it.
• 00:50 You'll be embarrassed.
• 00:52 So let's do a very simple insert.
• 00:53 PowerPoint loads that media, and there is our video and
• 00:57 it happens to work out to be the same size as the slide.
• 01:00 Because it's actually a video that was exported or
• 01:02 saved out of Powerpoint as a video.
• 01:04 As we play that, and you can watch those little cool animations,
• 01:07 we get the Play and Pause button.
• 01:10 The Video Timeline, which is also a scrubber.
• 01:13 We get little forward and bump back buttons.
• 01:17 The time as well as a mute, unmute, and an audio level, that's really cool.
• 01:21 I'm going to actually grab that video and make it a little smaller, so grab
• 01:24 the external handles and holding control and shift keys that sizes down nicely.
• 01:30 Notice that the very first frame is black so if I want to actually overcome that
• 01:33 probably the first thing to do is to select something that I think represents
• 01:37 the video, so I'll select that frame, post the frame, cut frame.
• 01:43 And when that video is ready to play in reading view,
• 01:46 that's the very first thing that people will see when I click on it.
• 01:49 It will start at the commencement of that video.
• 01:52 Hit escape to stop the video.
• 01:54 Hit escape again to actually stop the slide show in reading view.
• 01:57 We'll have a look at a few other format options.
• 01:59 You can color correct.
• 02:01 Add particular colors.
• 02:04 Reset the design or the size.
• 02:06 You can add particular videos styles, very similar to images including 3D bevels.
• 02:12 You can change the video shapes,
• 02:14 the border, as well as a range of video effects such as soft edges and so forth.
• 02:19 They look really good.
• 02:20 In terms of playback, we can actually trim the video.
• 02:22 So, for example If we want to get rid of this little black bit at the start,
• 02:27 we go to trim video.
• 02:29 The little blue icon shows us, or the line shows us,
• 02:32 where that's actually snapped to.
• 02:34 We can move along or we can use the little play button, called bump it, backwards and
• 02:38 forwards.
• 02:39 Or use the little spinners or even type the time in if we know exactly what it is.
• 02:44 Okay, and that is now trimmed.
• 02:46 Note that the information is still there.
• 02:48 I can go in and un-trim that, and
• 02:50 that will remain there until you actually compress the video.
• 02:52 So that's very handy.
• 02:54 We can fade in, fade out, change the volume.
• 02:58 It's set to play on click.
• 02:59 If you're delivering a presentation and
• 03:01 you want it to run automatically do so, you can have it loop.
• 03:05 If we look at the animation pane, we can actually see those animations there.
• 03:09 So there is the animated rectangle in the group up here, and
• 03:13 there is this particular entry here.
• 03:16 Now the reason that this is animated is for a very special reason.
• 03:21 I'm going to delete that and show you how that was done.
• 03:23 So let's click on the rectangle and move that so we've got a bit of room to work.
• 03:26 The one thing that's really neat is bookmark.
• 03:28 So say for example, just there we have a bird.
• 03:32 I might want to click in that and call that bird.
• 03:35 Then we find that little spot in our timeline, play it back, add bookmark.
• 03:40 Notice the little yellow dot.
• 03:41 Click on that.
• 03:43 Animation trigger on bookmark one.
• 03:47 Go to our animation pane and that is now actually a trigger that we can fire so
• 03:51 that when we run that now click to play.
• 03:54 Watch the timeline.
• 03:55 As soon as it gets to that little dot the animation will fire.
• 04:00 So as soon as the bird comes in, and there it is, a little animation.
• 04:03 So that's very cool as well.
• 04:05 And you can use the audio and the video timeline to play back many animations.
• 04:09 It's awesome.
• 04:10 The other thing that we're going to look at is Insert a Video.
• 04:12 We're going to insert one from online.
• 04:15 So this little dialogue pops up.
• 04:17 I can click on it, for example, OneDrive.
• 04:19 Have look in documents and there is a particular video there.
• 04:22 It's exactly the same one.
• 04:24 I'm not going to insert it because that will take a little while to download.
• 04:28 So inserting video into PowerPoint is very easy, you can do a range of formatting.
• 04:32 You can tree up animations with bookmarks, you can add poster frames, but
• 04:37 most importantly, remember if you link the file, you need to send the file with
• 04:40 a presentation or it will not run, it will get lost.

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