How to insert videos into PowerPoint easily and without errors

To insert a video into a PowerPoint slide, you can choose an existing video on your computer, or use online videos taken from other video sources with PowerPoint 2010 version or higher. The article below will guide you how to insert videos into PowerPoint.

1. Insert existing video into PowerPoint

Step 1:  To insert a video into a PowerPoint slide, first choose the location where you want to insert the video. Then click Insert > Video at the bottom of the right menu bar and select Video on My PC or This PC (on PowerPoint 365).

Step 2:  Now display the folder interface on the computer. Find the folder containing the video you want to insert, select the video to insert and click Insert .

Step 3: Once inserted, you will be transferred to the Format tab to adjust the video display effect in the slide.

Step 4: The video will be inserted with the default size, you can click on the dots on the side of the video to change the size of the video, click and hold the C arrow on the top of the video to rotate the video.

Step 5: You can change the color effects for the video at Color and change the light and contrast for the video at Correction .

Step 6:

To choose the display frame style for video on PowerPoint, click on the options in the Video Styles section .

Step 7:

Click Playback to select the video playback mode with options including:

1. Star: Choose how to control Slide.
2. Automatically: Play video automatically when the slide appears.
3. When Clicked On: The video will only play when you click on the video frame.
4. Play Full Screen: The video is played full screen when presented to that slide.

2. How to insert online videos in PowerPoint

With PowerPoint 2010 and above, you also have the option to insert online videos. You can insert YouTube videos into PowerPoint.

Step 1:

We also click Insert > Video > Online Video .

Step 2:

This time displays the interface for you to insert the video URL you want to insert into the PowerPoint slide.

As a result, you will also see the video displayed in the slide. The next editing step is similar to inserting a video from your computer into a slide.

3. Edit videos in PowerPoint

By default, when inserting a video, you are placed on the Format tab, where you have many options to further edit the video to suit the slide you are inserting.

Adjust section:

1. Color: to adjust the color of the video, can also adjust to black and white video.

1. Corrections: adjust brightness for video.

1. Reset: to return the video to its original shape and color.

Video Styles section: Add frame styles to videos

Accessibility section: Change the video border color, add a frame shape so the video only appears in that frame, add text to the video

You can accurately change the video size and crop the video in the Sizes section .

Video in PowerPoint will make the presentation more lively and easier to understand. Viewers of the presentation can both read the content you are presenting and view additional content in the video, helping to better understand the content.

Hopefully the above easy-to-understand instructions for inserting videos into PowerPoint will help you make more impressive presentations.

David Pac

Update 22 August 2024