Complete PowerPoint Video Guide: How to Work With Videos in Presentations

Videos make the presentations rich and engaging.  With the advances in Microsoft PowerPoint’s support for various video formats and addition of new features, it is now extremely easy to create powerful presentations by inserting and/or embedding videos.

The distribution and delivery of PowerPoint presentations has also improved significantly.  Rich PowerPoint presentations can now be delivered through email, packaged on a DVD, converted to videos for viewing on iPods and mobile phones and shared using YouTube.

PowerPoint Supported Video Formats

In this guide, we will look at how you can put videos in PowerPoint presentations and make them more engaging and interesting to the viewer.  You will also learn how to convert PowerPoint presentations to videos.  This guide assumes you are using PowerPoint 2003, 2007 or 2010 Beta.

Insert a video in your PowerPoint presentation – Find out the steps for most widely used versions of PowerPoint – 2003, 2007 and 2010.

Embed YouTube Video in PowerPoint presentation – Liked a video on YouTube that can make your presentation more interesting.  If you are using Office 2010, you can directly embed a YouTube video in PowerPoint presentation or use ZamZar.com to insert a video in presentation.

Want to send presentation through email – Learn how to send a PowerPoint presentation with video by email so that it plays as expected on the recipient’s system.

Finally, convert PowerPoint presentation to video for sharing on YouTube and viewing on iPod, mobile phone or TV.

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Posted by Vikrant on Feb 16 2010. Filed under Featured, Tips & Tricks. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry