Insert “Video” from file

The “Insert Movie” option has been made more extensive in “PowerPoint” 2010 .

We have the option of a preview image for the movie to insert and we have the possibility of inserting a video  that we have published on “YouTube”.

To insert a movie in your presentation, select the “Insert” tab, click the “Video” button in the “Ribbon”.
This gives us three options, “Video from file”, “Video from website” and ” Clip Art Video”.
I will discuss the first two here. The third option reopens the “Clip Art” task pane in which we have videos, or, GIFs selected. So basically, it is the same as the first option, only that it gives you a video from the “Office.com” range.

 

I’ll start with the first, so we click “Video from file”.

In the dialog that appears, navigate to the video you want to insert, select it and click the “Insert” button.
This places the video in the middle of the slide and gives us two additional tabs under a new “Video tools” in the “Ribbon”
The “Format” and “Playback” tabs.
The “Playback” tab gives us almost the same options as when we insert sound, so I will go on further.

 

What is interesting is, under the “Format” tab, select “Poster Frame”.  With this option, we can set initial value for the video to start playing the slide.  I’ll give an example.  You’ve added a movie to your slide, that only begins to play after you’ve clicked.
Now you have the option of selecting a photo or a specific frame from the video, to set as the initial value.  In other words, you can choose the video frame from the movie or a picture on the slide show when you start, and when you click the movie, the movie starts to play.

To show pictures, choose “Poster Frame”, click the “Picture From File” button and choose a photo on your hard drive that you want to set as the initial value.

Another option you have is, a particular frame in your movie, to serve as “initial value”.  For this, place the “Play bar” (1) on the frame of the movie you want to use as initial value.  Then click the “Poster frame” in the “Ribbon” and select “Current frame” (2).
When you’re playing the slide, you will see that the movie is paused at the frame of the movie which was set. When we click it, the movie will begin playing from the beginning.  I personally think it adds value to “PowerPoint”.

 

Video playback by means of a button

We can play the video through a button created in our presentation.
What we need is just a button. We can draw a shape and embedded video in our slides.
I have already inserted my video in the previous section of this lesson .
Then I draw a circle on the slide. By selecting the “Insert” tab, click the “Shapes” button and choose a shape. As an example, I draw a circle, but you can do what you want.
I format it by right-clicking it and selecting “Format Shape” in the drop-down menu. When I’m done, I click the “Close” button.
Then I’m going with this text because it is always easy when you see it for what it is.
I do this by right-clicking the button again and selecting “Edit Text” in the drop-down menu.
I type the text that I want to add to the button. “Play movie” seems quite appropriate.
Then we have a video (1) and a button (2) in our slides.

Then we set the “Start” of the video to “On Click”.
To do this, first select the video, select the “Playback” (A)tab and choose the “OnClick” (B) option.

 

With the video still selected, choose the “Animation” (C) tab, click the “Add Animation “(D) button and click ” Play “(E) in the pop-up menu.

 

Then click the “Trigger” (1) in the “Ribbon”. You choose “On click of” (2) and from the list of the different objects in the slide that appears, click the object “Oval7”.

When you’re playing the presentation, you will see that the video will start playing only when you have clicked the button.

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