An excerpt from Medical Presentations.
In our workshops, one of the crucial widespread points that members increase pertains to utilizing movies in PowerPoint. They’re uncertain easy methods to supply movies and are afraid to make use of them primarily based on previous experiences. The dangers related to utilizing video in PowerPoint have diminished considerably with latest variations. Beforehand, movies had been linked to your presentation, so that you needed to save the video in the identical folder as your discuss earlier than inserting it into the PowerPoint file.
In Microsoft 365, movies are embedded within the presentation and can journey with it, wherever you’re taking it. All it’s important to do is insert the video, and it will likely be embedded into PowerPoint by default.
Video file codecs
There are a selection of potential sources of video. You will have recorded the video your self, or your medical pictures staff might have made it. Maybe you’ve got a video file from an endoscopy, radiology, or minimal entry process. Microsoft 365 helps a number of video codecs. Nonetheless, .mp4 utilizing an H.264 codec is essentially the most appropriate format and almost certainly to play whether or not you’re on Mac or Home windows, so we advocate that you simply keep it up.
Inserting a video file out of your pc
When you’ve got a video file that you simply wish to embrace in your slide deck, start by making ready the slide the place you wish to insert the video. We advocate a clean slide in case your video might be performed full display. After all, chances are you’ll determine to play the video in solely part of the display in some circumstances, and we are going to take care of that shortly.
Now select Insert > Video > From File (to make use of a file in your pc) or Inventory (to make use of a inventory Microsoft video). Navigate to your video and click on Insert. The video will seem on the slide and might be routinely embedded within the PowerPoint file.
It’s attainable to hyperlink to a video as an alternative of embedding it. This protects file measurement, however it may be extraordinarily problematic, and we don’t advocate it.
It’s your decision the video to play full display. If that’s the case, it doesn’t matter what measurement the thumbnail of the video is at this stage. Merely choose Play Full Display from the Playback tab.
Beginning the video
If you insert a video into your presentation from a file in your pc, by default, it’s set as much as play “in click on sequence.” This implies the identical as “on mouse click on” within the animation settings, the place the video will play as you advance the slide whether or not by mouse click on, area bar, arrow keys, or varied different means. You’ll be able to set the video to play routinely, so that you don’t should manually begin it. Choose your video and select from the Begin choices on the Playback tab.
When you’ve got a video, akin to an echocardiogram, you may additionally wish to tick loop till stopped on the Playback tab. It will play the video in a steady loop.
Maybe you must cease the video to emphasise a specific space. You’ll be able to pause and restart the video by clicking on it with the cursor (the cursor will change to a small hand). The proper arrow or return key will transfer to the subsequent slide.
You’ll be able to place textboxes or shapes containing textual content over your video if you happen to really feel this provides to the message. Simply be sure you add them after you add the video to make sure they’re in entrance of the video, or deliver them to the entrance utilizing the instructions discovered in Chapter 6.
Modifying the video
Chances are you’ll must trim the start and finish of your video. Choose the video, and on the Playback tab, click on Trim Video, then drag the sliders to your most well-liked begin and end factors. Sadly, you may’t trim out elements in the midst of the video in PowerPoint; you have to a video modifying program for that.
It’s attainable to regulate the quantity of your video utilizing the Quantity button on the Playback tab. In case your video has sound, keep in mind to show in your audio system within the working system too!
Optimizing for compatibility
In case you’re working in Home windows, PowerPoint has a helpful function to optimize the compatibility of movies. Go to File > Information, and if there are movies in your file, you’ll have an choice to Optimize Media Compatibility to assist enhance compatibility when performed on different gadgets.
You might also have an choice to Compress Media on this identical space. That is particularly good to do in case your information have grow to be very massive due to embedded video. You’ll be able to select from Commonplace, HD, or Full HD high quality if you select to compress.
On-line movies
Earlier than you employ on-line movies, be sure you verify the web connection at your presentation venue. And keep in mind, as soon as the viewers will get there, the bandwidth tends to worsen!
What if you wish to present a video that’s on-line, akin to on YouTube™? You should use the instructions Insert > Video > On-line Film (Mac) or Insert > Video > On-line Video (Home windows). Then insert the URL (the web site particulars) for the YouTube video and click on Insert. (You will get this from YouTube by clicking Share, which is at the moment discovered beneath the YouTube video, after which copy the URL). It will insert the video onto the slide, however notice that on-line movies should not embedded into your presentation. PowerPoint is simply offering a hyperlink, and a web based video will solely play in case you have a dependable, speedy web connection if you find yourself exhibiting your presentation.
Moreover, on-line movies won’t provide the choice within the Playback menu to play full display. You should drag the corners of the video to the corners of the slide in order for you that to occur.
Video received’t play!
We not often see points recently with video not taking part in in PowerPoint. Microsoft has executed numerous work on this space, and it exhibits!
Bear in mind, on-line movies are linked, not embedded into your presentation. In case your on-line video doesn’t play, it might be a difficulty with the obtainable bandwidth—you want a fairly good connection with a view to stream on-line video successfully.
In case you don’t have an choice to play full display, it’s additionally since you’ve inserted a web based video. You would want to obtain the video and use Insert > Video > From File with a view to use this setting.
Moreover, if you happen to linked to a video, even when it’s in your pc, the video have to be obtainable, and the hyperlink should not be damaged for it to play. In case you are on a Home windows pc, one of the simplest ways to make sure in opposition to these points is to run the Optimize Compatibility instrument in File > Information.
Terry Irwin is a colorectal surgeon and co-author of Medical Presentations.
