An excerpt from Medical Presentations.
In our workshops, some of the widespread points that members increase pertains to utilizing movies in PowerPoint. They’re not sure learn how to supply movies and are afraid to make use of them based mostly on previous experiences. The dangers related to utilizing video in PowerPoint have diminished considerably with current 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 you need 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 images crew might have made it. Maybe you’ve gotten a video file from an endoscopy, radiology, or minimal entry process. Microsoft 365 helps a number of video codecs. Nevertheless, .mp4 utilizing an H.264 codec is probably the most suitable format and most 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
In case you have a video file that you simply wish to embody 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 shall be performed full display screen. After all, it’s possible you’ll resolve to play the video in solely part of the display screen in some circumstances, and we’ll cope with 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 shall be routinely embedded within the PowerPoint file.
It’s doable to hyperlink to a video as a substitute 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 screen. In that 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
Whenever 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, house bar, arrow keys, or numerous different means. You possibly can 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.
In case you have a video, reminiscent of an echocardiogram, you might also wish to tick loop till stopped on the Playback tab. It will play the video in a steady loop.
Maybe it’s essential cease the video to emphasise a specific space. You possibly can pause and restart the video by clicking on it with the cursor (the cursor will change to a small hand). The precise arrow or return key will transfer to the subsequent slide.
You possibly can place textboxes or shapes containing textual content over your video in the event you really feel this provides to the message. Simply make sure to add them after you add the video to make sure they’re in entrance of the video, or convey 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 components in the course of the video in PowerPoint; you have to a video enhancing program for that.
It’s doable 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
When you’re working in Home windows, PowerPoint has a useful function to optimize the compatibility of movies. Go to File > Data, and if there are movies in your file, you might have an choice to Optimize Media Compatibility to assist enhance compatibility when performed on different gadgets.
You may additionally have an choice to Compress Media on this similar space. That is particularly good to do in case your recordsdata have develop into very massive due to embedded video. You possibly can select from Commonplace, HD, or Full HD high quality while you select to compress.
On-line movies
Earlier than you utilize on-line movies, make sure to 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, reminiscent of on YouTube™? You need to 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 may get this from YouTube by clicking Share, which is presently discovered beneath the YouTube video, after which copy the URL). It will insert the video onto the slide, however be aware that on-line movies aren’t embedded into your presentation. PowerPoint is simply offering a hyperlink, and a web-based video will solely play when you’ve got a dependable, speedy web connection when you find yourself exhibiting your presentation.
Moreover, on-line movies won’t provide the possibility within the Playback menu to play full display screen. You might want to drag the corners of the video to the corners of the slide in order for you that to occur.
Video received’t play!
We hardly ever see points recently with video not taking part in in PowerPoint. Microsoft has carried out a number of 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 may very well be a difficulty with the obtainable bandwidth—you want a fairly good connection with the intention to stream on-line video successfully.
When you don’t have an choice to play full display screen, it’s additionally since you’ve inserted a web-based video. You would wish to obtain the video and use Insert > Video > From File with the intention to use this setting.
Moreover, in the event you 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 device in File > Data.
Terry Irwin is a colorectal surgeon and co-author of Medical Presentations.
