How to add a video to powerpoint? (10 easy points!!)?

insert > movies and sounds >> chose your source

You can enhance a slide by adding a video clip or sound. Inserting a video clip (also called movie clips or files) or adding sound to a slide can add interest to your presentation, but relying on multimedia effects to carry your presentation often backfires. Too much sound and motion during a presentation is ultimately confusing to your audience. Used judiciously, however, video and sound effects can quickly catch your viewers’ attention.

Insert a video or movie clip

You can insert one or more video clips — that is, movies — into any slide. You might want to play a video quote from your product manager, for example, or run a short documentary movie for a fund-raising event. You could even create a video for product tutorials and educational materials.

Most of the movie clips stored in the Clip Organizer are simply animated .gif files, small files that contain an animated sequence of images. If you imported your own movie files into the Clip Organizer, you will find them there, too, generally stored in .avi format. You might be able to find additional movie clips on your network, intranet, or the Internet.

TIP Before you insert video clips, think about the environment you’ll be presenting in. Does the computer you’ll use have the necessary hardware (such as a sound card, speakers, and an enhanced video card) for playing the multimedia items during your presentation? You might consider adding only a few multimedia elements just in case. If the machine you give your presentation on doesn’t support them, plan an alternate way to make your presentation compelling. With this basic detail considered, you’ll find that adding video and sound is the same as adding any other item to your slides, and the special effects are truly exciting.

To insert a movie into a slide, follow these steps:

Insert a movie using Clip Organizer

Display the slide in which you want to add a video clip.

On the Insert menu, point to Movies and Sounds, and then click Movie from Clip Organizer.

You can now browse the Clip Organizer for a movie clip. PowerPoint will open the Clip Art task pane and will select the Movies option in the Results should be drop-down list. You can use the Clip Art task pane to locate a video clip stored on your computer or on the Office Online Web site.

Click the movie you want to add to your slide.

NOTE Some of the layouts you can apply to a slide (using the Slide Layout task pane) add a group of buttons to the slide for inserting various types of objects. These are known as Content Layouts or Text and Content Layouts. If you’ve applied such a layout to your slide, you can insert a video clip from the Clip Organizer by clicking the Insert Media Clip button and selecting a video clip in the Media Clip dialog box (which displays both movie and sound clips). However, the Clip Art task pane (or the freestanding Clip Organizer program) provides more features for locating and inserting a video clip and usually makes the task easier.

Insert a movie from a file

You can insert a movie from a movie file on a local disk, a shared network location, or an Internet site.

On the Insert menu, point to Movies and Sounds, and then click Movie from File.

Select the movie file in the Insert Movie dialog box, and then click the OK button.

If you selected a movie clip in animated .gif format, the animation will run automatically the entire time the slide is displayed in a slide show. If, however, you selected a movie in another format (such as .avi), PowerPoint will display a message box letting you choose when the movie will play.

To have the movie play automatically when the slide is displayed in a slide show, click the Automatically button.

To have the movie play only after you click the movie image, click the When Clicked button. PowerPoint will then add the clip(?) to your slide.

Resize the video image (if necessary)

Select the movie in the slide and then drag the sizing handles that are displayed around the image.

To maintain the image’s original proportions, drag one of the corner sizing handles.

To change the original proportions, drag one of the sizing handles in the center of a border.

To change the image’s size without displacing the center of the image (that is, to resize it symmetrically about the center), press CTRL while you drag a sizing handle.

To move the video image, drag it to a new location.

Modify the way the video plays during a slide show

Right-click the video image in your slide.

Do any or all of the following:

To adjust the volume or to change the video object display options, on the shortcut menu, click Edit Movie Object, and then select the options you want.

The Movie Options dialog box also indicates where the movie clip is stored. If it’s stored within the presentation file, the dialog box will display the location Contained In Presentation. If it’s stored in a separate linked file, it will display the file path. In the latter case, if you are

In Powerpoint, there should be an option to embed the video project in Powerpoint, not Windows Media Player..

Here is a simple but detailed guide about how to add a video clip to powerpoint with easy steps.

http://www.dvd-ppt-slideshow.com/powerpoint-knowle...

Hope it helps

You could either just put a link in to the website by typing into the slide something like "video" then right click and select "hyperlink" then click and finally just paste the address in. The other way is to download a program that saves them onto your computer which isn't really ideal. Good luck, hope your presentation is a smash!

Go to the Insert menu

Go to Insert Movies and Sounds

Choose the movie from where you saved it on your hard drive.

It's there, you can now do options like anything else.

Go to the Insert menu

Go to Insert Movies and Sounds

Choose the movie from where you saved it on your hard drive.

Check this link. It tells you how to do it in easy steps:

http://www.presentationhelper.co.uk/powerpoint_vid...

(go to insert, then movie/sounds. Lastly go to insert movie from file.)