How to Embed Video from Web to PowerPoint Slide

Here's a quick tip for anyone who has to do a PowerPoint presentation and would like to insert a video from a video-sharing web site like YouTube, MySpace, iFilm, Break.com, MetaCafe, etc into their PowerPoint presentation. With it, How to convert YouTube video for PowerPoint will become an easy task for you. Before that, let's learn some information about the video formats supported by PowerPoint.

AVI:   Supported

MOV (QuickTime):  Supported up to version 3 on Windows and All versions supported on OS X

MPEG:  MPEG1 is supported; MPEG2 is supported on Vista only and may require a 3rd party plugin on XP or OS X

WMV (WindowsMedia):  Supported on Windows; Supported on OS X with the Flip4Mac codec

As you see, the PowerPoint can only understand WMV, AVI, MPEG, MOV video if you have Windows PC, and the best video format for PowerPoint are WMV and AVI. So here we show how to convert a YouTube video to WMV/AVI for PowerPoint.

Now follow the steps below to embed web video into PowerPoint 2010. If you are using an older version of Office, you need to download the web video to your computer first and then follow this guide to embed video in PowerPoint.

Steps: Embed Web Video into PowerPoint 2010

Step 1. Navigate to the online video that you wish to embed into your PowerPoint presentation.

Tips: if you don't want to take such complicate steps, you can also use PPT to video software to convert PowerPoint to video with easy.

Step 2. Copy the embed code. Look for an "Embed" or "Share" option near the video. After finding the code, highlight it and press "Ctrl" and "C" simultaneously to copy it.

Step 3. Navigate to the PowerPoint slide in which you want to embed the video. 3. Click "Developer", click the icon "More Controls" which is displayed as hummer and wrench in the Controls column.

Step 4. Click "Insert" at the top of the program, go to "Video" from the toolbar list at the top, and click "Video From Web Site" from the drop-down list.

Step 5. Click the empty text box in in the "Video From Web Site" window, and press "Ctrl" and "V" simultaneously.

Step 6. Click "Insert", Done!

Generally speaking, in order to avoid video codec problems on different computers and make sure the video can be played back normally, the FLV format is not recommended to use in the PowerPoint. In view of the popularity and highly compatible cross-platform features of flash movie in SWF, we may try to convert the FLV files to SWF and then insert the SWF file to PowerPoint. you can also use PowerPoint to video converter to change PowerPoint into video format,

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