Chapter 2. Making Video Slides
In This Chapter
Storing your video files correctly and understanding video file formats
Putting videos on slides
Starting and pausing videos
Handling the volume, looping, and other controls
Adjusting the size of the video screen
If a picture is worth a thousand words, what is a moving picture worth? Ten thousand?
This chapter looks into turning your PowerPoint presentation into a mini‐movie theater. It explains how to include video in a presentation as well as the technical background information you need to make the video play correctly. You also find out how to fine‐tune video, make it play automatically or when you want it to play, hide video screens, and play them at full screen size.
Looking before You Leap
It always pays to look before you leap. Before you attempt to put a video on a slide, consider how to store video files and which video file formats work with PowerPoint. As I explain shortly, video files aren't stored inside PowerPoint presentations, which makes transferring a presentation to another computer problematic if a presentation includes video files. And not every kind of video file can be played on a PowerPoint slide. Better keep reading.
Storing video files correctly
Unlike photos, videos aren't made a part of a slide when you place a video on a slide. To use a technical term, videos aren't embedded in slides. To play a video, PowerPoint notes the address of the video file on your computer, reaches into the folder where the video is stored, ...
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