HOw do I insert a youtube video into my powerpoint presentation?

clevohardcore - 4-30-2012 at 10:50 PM

Help super appreciated? I copied and pasted the link to my PP slides, but they wont work when I click them to practice this. I'll need them to work during my presentation.

Six66Mike - 4-30-2012 at 11:57 PM

For all my lectures in class they only post the URL and open it in a browser, or pre-load it in a browser before so it's ready to play when you get to that slide.

Not sure you can embed it straight in the slide, doubt it. If you had a video you could embed it but you'd need the original file.

clevohardcore - 5-1-2012 at 02:10 AM

I used a site called keepvid.com and that embedded it onto my power point and it plays when I am in the editing setting, but when I click on slide view as it should look for the presentation. The video wont play. It's pissing me off.

clevohardcore - 5-1-2012 at 07:46 AM

Been up all fucking night and I got this presentation due at 530pm. FUCK! NOw I keep geting this notice everytime I try and pull it up from my desktop, or jumpdrive.

The document “Forrestgump.pptx” could not be opened. PowerPoint cannot open files in the “Microsoft PowerPoint presentation” format.

Makes no fucking sense why powerpoint can't open up powerpoint. What the fuck am I doing wrong?

random - 5-1-2012 at 08:59 AM

Clevo, I'm no expert with Powerpoint, but I'll try to help.

My guess about “Forrestgump.pptx” is that you have the wrong extension. A video clip shouldn't have a .pptx extension. If KeepVid gave the file an extension (maybe .avi), don't change it. The error you're getting sounds like Powerpoint is telling you that you can't embed a Powerpoint file within a Powerpoint file.

Have you tried this? http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint-help/embed-in-o...

Quote:

Embed a video from a file

In Normal view, click the slide in which you want to embed a video.
On the Insert tab, in the Media group, click the arrow under Video, and then click Video from file.
In the Insert Video dialog box, locate and click the video that you want to embed, and then click Insert.

I just tried it using a video on my computer, and it worked fine. But, I didn't try using it on another computer yet, so no guarantees it embedded properly. The only difference from the quoted instructions is that my version of Powerpoint says "Movie" instead of "Video" in step 2.

Make sure you do embed the video file instead of just linking to the file on your computer. If you link instead of embedding the file, it won't work on a different computer because it doesn't have the video clip. Even if it's on a flash drive, it may have problems finding it since another computer may have a different path to the flash drive.

clevohardcore - 5-1-2012 at 01:25 PM

The crazy thing is its embedded. It plays. It looks nice, but when I try and save it to my jump drive or email it to me so I can pull it up in class it will not let me. It gives me that warning every time. the videos even start like I want them right when you click the slide. I am just having an issue transferring or saving the presentation. I am not sure if the classroom smartboard will accommodate me bringing my computer in and setting it under the projector.

clevohardcore - 5-1-2012 at 01:28 PM

What is mcarocode. It says "the default, XML-based presentation format for powerpoint 2008 for mac and powerpoint 2007 for windows. Cannot store VBA macro code" WTF is all that?

BDx13 - 5-1-2012 at 01:41 PM

this is a youtube video you're trying to embed?
try this: