Want to know how to add a video to a slide in a PowerPoint for Mac 2011 document? This video will show you how it's done. Whether you're new to Microsoft's popular word digital slideshow application, new to MS PowerPoint 2011 or even an expert merely looking to brush up on the fundamentals, you're sure to be well served by this quality video tutorial from the folks at Lynda.

1. Click on 'Format' bar, and Choose PowerPoint compatible format. Choose the PowerPoint supported formats in the 'Format' dropdown list. You can go to 'Common Video' and find 'MPEG-1 Video (.mpg)' which works well with both Windows and Mac version of PowerPoint.
2. How to Embed YouTube Videos in Powerpoint – Mac. Tech Knowledge Base Powerpoint How to Embed YouTube Videos in Powerpoint – Mac This video from the Frist Nursing Informatics Center provides Mac-specific information for embedding Youtube videos in Powerpoint presentations.
3. While PowerPoint 2016 for Mac itself doesn't support inserting an online video, it takes just a few steps to use an add-in that lets you insert a video from YouTube or Vimeo. Insert an online video with the Web Video Player add-in. In your presentation, open a new slide. (The video takes up the full slide, so it's best to start fresh.).

Want to insert/embed a video in MS PowerPoint? It’s not a difficult task to do; just few steps would allow you embed a video in your PowerPoint. The Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation provides two ways to add a video from your computer to PowerPoint Presentation they are:

1. Embed a video to a slide in your PowerPoint Presentation. Embedding can increase the size your PowerPoint Presentation because it stores the video in your presentation. There will be no loss of your video even if you mail it to someone, or you move your PowerPoint Presentation from one system to another.
2. Link a video to a slide of your PowerPoint Presentation. Linking does not increase the size of your video but, there is one flaw that links can break because videos are not stored in your presentation they are present outside the presentation. So, you should be sure that the video must travel with your PowerPoint Presentation.

The only difference between embedding or linking a video to the PowerPoint Presentation is explained in step 5. Rest of the procedure is same.

Steps to Insert Embed Video in MS PowerPoint Presentation (PPT) 2016

Step 1: Open the PowerPoint Presentation 2016 on your screen. On the left-hand side, you can see the recently created Presentations and an option to open some specified PowerPoint Presentation for you. On the right-hand side, you can see various options of the “Templates and Themes”. Choose any one template of your choice and proceed further.

Step 2: To set the slide layout go to the “Home” tab at the top of your window and select the option of “Layout”. The Layout tab has a down arrow which will provide you various options for slide layout. You can select a different layout for each slide in your PowerPoint Presentation. Here, I selected the layout “Content with Caption”.

Step 3: Next click on the “Insert” tab present after the “Home” tab at the top of the screen. Now you can step ahead in two ways.

• Either you click on the “Video” tab present on the right-hand side under the Insert tab.
• Or you can select the “Insert Video” icon present in the Caption block of your selected slide layout.

Step 4: If you select the

“Video” tab present under the Insert tab, it will pop out two option.

1. Online Video: Finds and insert the video from a variety of Online sources.
2. Video On My PC: Inserts a video from your computer or from other computers that are you are connected to.

As you want to embed a video from your computer to a slide of your PowerPoint Presentation, select the second option”Video On My PC”.

Or if you select

“Insert Video” icon present in the Caption block of your, slide layout.

You will find a dialog box which will ask you whether you want to view the webpage content that was delivered securely or not. Click on the yes button; then you will find that an another dialog box pops out which will help you to browse the video file on your computer that you want to embed on your slide. Click on “Browse”.

Both the above procedures will lead you to the same dialog box shown in step 5.

Step 5: In the opened “Insert Video” dialog box, select the file from the system and click on the “Insert” button present at the bottom of the dialog box to embed a video in your PowerPoint Presentation.

To link a video to your PowerPoint Presentation click on the down arrow present along with the Insert tab. You will see the option “Link to File”. Click on it and the video will be linked to the slide of your PowerPoint Presentation.

Step 6: Now you can see that the video is being embedded/linked in the slide.

1. You can move the video to change its location in the slide, and also you can change its size using the adjusting cursor.
2. At the bottom, there is a play button with which you can paly or pause the video.
3. There is marking strip present in front of the paly button which marks the status of the video that how much part had been played and how much part is remaining.
4. You can also adjust the sound of the video.

Step 7: Select the video you just embedded you will see the “Video Tools” tab at the top of your screen which will provide the various option to adjust and modify the appearance of the video in the slide.

• You can “Play” the video to preview it. You can correct the Brightness and Contrast of the video.You can adjust the “Color” of the video. You can “Reset Design” of the video.
• You can also decide the poster frame of your video.

• There is a “Playback” tab under Video tool at the top of the screen Under which you can “Trim Video”.
• You can also decide whether to paly the video “On Click” or it should be played “Automatically” when it appears in the slideshow.

Step 8: Now after all the adjustments its time to save the video. Go to the “File” tab present at the top of the screen and you will find “Save As” option, click on it. Browse the location where you want to save the PowerPoint Presentation and save it.

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• You can embed a YouTube video in Microsoft PowerPoint to make your presentations more engaging and interactive.
• Depending on which version of PowerPoint you have, you can embed a YouTube video into your PowerPoint presentation using either the URL, or an embed code.
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Enriching a PowerPoint slideshow with charts, images, and videos can make any presentation more engaging.

How To Embed A Video Into Powerpoint

You can embed a locally stored video file in PowerPoint, but that makes the PowerPoint file very large and can cause performance problems.

A much better approach: Embed a link to a YouTube video instead. This has the same effect as adding a video from your computer, but will add virtually nothing to your PowerPoint's file size.

The exact way to do this depends on which version of PowerPoint you have.

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1. Find the video you want to embed on YouTube, and copy the entire URL from your PC or Mac computer's web browser address bar.

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2. In PowerPoint, click the 'Insert' tab in the ribbon at the top of the screen.

3. Click 'Video,' and in the drop-down, choose 'Online video…'

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4. In the Online Video dialog box, paste the URL of the YouTube video.

Embedding An Online YouTube Video Into A PowerPoint On A MAC

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You can apply a variety of effects to the video preview using the options in the Video Format tab in the ribbon. These options affect the video preview that appears in your slide before the video plays - they do not affect the video when it plays.

How to embed a YouTube video in PowerPoint 2016

If you have Office 2016, the Online Video dialog box looks a little different, and you need to embed the video differently.

1. Find the video you want to embed on YouTube and copy the embed code that begins with '

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Embedding YouTube Video Into PowerPoint

2. In PowerPoint, click the 'Insert' tab in the ribbon at the top of the screen.

3. Click 'Video,' and in the drop-down, choose 'Online video…'

4. In the Online Video dialog box, paste the embed code into the From a Video Embed Code field.

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You can also use the Search YouTube search box to find a video to embed directly from PowerPoint.

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