How To Embed Youtube Video In Powerpoint 2008

by AJ George

Over the last 2 weeks I've shown you how to insert YouTube Videos into PowerPoint 2007 when presenting both with and without an internet connection. This week I'm going to show you how to exercise the aforementioned thing, just in PowerPoint 2008 for the Mac.

Detect the YouTube video y'all would like to insert into your PowerPoint presentation.
Copy the URL for the video.
Navigate to www.mediaconverter.org (in that location are other free media converters, but I've tried and had success with this one) and click enter a link.
Paste in the URL for the YouTube video and click OK.
Click go to the next step.
Select an output file blazon and click OK.
Choose either mov or wmv. Mov files volition play on Macs but volition not play on PCs. Wmv files volition play on PCs, but not on Macs. If you will exist presenting on a PC, select wmv and read the note at the lesser of this post before inserting your video into PowerPoint.
Click start to begin the conversion.
When finished, click download and salve the file to your desired location.
In PowerPoint, ensure that you are working on the slide where yous would like insert the video.
From the Standard toolbar, select the Media tool and cull Insert Movie (if you do non see this toolbar, from the Menu bar, choose View > Toolbars > Standard).

The Insert Motion picture dialog box appears.
Navigate to your saved YouTube video and click Choose.
Select whether you would like your video to start Automatically or When Clicked.
When you lot view your slide show, simply click the video to play it. Click the video once again to pause or stop it.

Annotation: If you will be presenting your slide show from a PC, you should have converted the YouTube video to wmv (the residuum of these steps would still apply to yous). There are several programs that will allow Mac users to play wmv files on their systems, just I have tried and had success with Flip4Mac, which you lot can download for free hither. Yous may demand to restart your figurer earlier the software volition let yous to lookout man the wmv files and insert them into your PowerPoint presentation.

PowerPoint 2007: Insert YouTube Videos (with cyberspace)

PowerPoint 2007: Insert YouTube Videos, Part 2 (without internet)

PowerPoint 2010: Inserting YouTube Videos

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Well-nigh the author: AJ George is IconLogic's lead Technical Writer and author of both "PowerPoint 2007: The Essentials" and "PowerPoint 2008 for the Macintosh: The Essentials." You can follow AJ on Twitter at http://twitter.com/andrayajgeorge.

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