Relationship of PowerPoint 2010 and Video

Microsoft PowerPoint is the most popular as well as widely used office suite application for creating presentations. With increasing need of creating more sophisticated PowerPoint presentation and slideshow, inserting videos within presentation and sharing it on website with video format has become a trend.

Nowadays, after using the released technical preview version of PowerPoint 2010, we know that it enables users to convert PowerPoint 2010 presentations to WMV video format directly. It also allows users to add video clips from online site directly to your presentation, edit the video and even trim the video. Here let’s learn the detailed relationship of PowerPoint 2010 and video together.

 

Video on PowerPoint 2010

Add online site video to PowerPoint 2010

PowerPoint 2010 supports embedding video from online video sites like YouTube. Please follow the steps below:

Step 1: Click Insert and then select Video from Online Video Site…from Video option.

Step 2: There will display a window of Insert Video from Online Video Site, copy and paste the embed HTML into the box that appears.
Step 3: Click Insert button and the video will be added to your presentation. Make sure your computer is connected with the internet when show the presentation.

 

• Add video from local drive to PowerPoint 2010

Add video on PowerPoint 2010 from your local drive:

Step 1: Click Insert and then select Video from File…from Video option.
Step 2: Browse and select the file in the Insert Video dialog box and click Insert to place the video into the slide.

By inserting the video, a copy of the video file is placed in the slide, so moving or deleting the original file will not affect your PowerPoint slide.

 

• Edit video on PowerPoint 2010

PowerPoint 2010 enables user to edit embedded video right from within PowerPoint itself without using an external video editing program. Firstly just click on a video which has been embedded into a slide:

 

• 1. Click Format tab to control the videos brightness, contrast, color, and style
• 2. Click Edit tab, all of the video editing tools displays. Once you edit the video, you can compress it to lessen the presentation’s file size. 

 

Here is an example:
This picture shows the way that the video displays before editing

 

This picture shows the way that the video displays after editing

 Trim a Video in PowerPoint 2010

Another cool feature added to PowerPoint 2010 is the ability to trim any video added to . This is very useful feature added to PowerPoint 2010 by which you can do some basic editing on your videos.

If you want to trim a video in PowerPoint 2010, you should to save the video which you want to trim on your local PC folder. With the trim option, you can either specify the start time and end time or use the slider to select the time.

Two ways for you trim the video:

• 1. Select the video in and right click on the video. You will be able to see an option Trim Video.
• 2. elect the video in PowerPoint 2010 will highlight the video tool tab in the ribbon. Inside the Editing tab, you can see the option Trim Video.

 

• PowerPoint 2010 to video

PowerPoint 2010 can allow you to create a video after you have created a PowerPoint presentation with PowerPoint 2010. You can directly create to a WMV video by default.
To create a video, click Office button,and then choose Share option, finally click Create a Video. After you converting your PowerPoint 2010 to video files, you can share it online with others. Also, you can load the video to your smart phones for viewing.

 

With the enhanced video embedding, video editing and the new feature to create a

video, we can expand the creativity of creating our PowerPoint presentation or PowerPoint photo album.

 

In addition, now if you really want to convert your PowerPoint to Video or PowerPoint to DVD before the Office 2010 is released, you can use some third-party tools. You can use the PowerPoint to DVD burner and PowerPoint to Video converter. They can work well with PowerPoint 2000/2002/2003/2007 and retain all the effects in your PowerPoint presentations, like animations, transitions, video and audio.