I made this tutorial on my German version of PowerPoint 2007, but visually it is just the same for each language version of PowerPoint 2007. Once you have successfully encoded your video file(s), I prepared a tutorial to show you easily how to insert or embed video file(s) to your presentation and how to run them on full screen. To encode your video files easily, the best free tool out there is named Super.ī. You can use other codec like avi with Xvid, but you must be sure the codec is installed on the destination system. If it is a Windows system, the recommended codec is WMV and for a Macintosh the best is MOV (with H.264). If you want to make a presentation with embedded video you first must know the operating system which is running on the computer where you are going to run the presentation. Hereinafter, I will explain how to encode a video file, how to embed successfully a video to a PPT, how to configure it, how to save the presentation and how to pack the presentation on you USB-stick:Ī. Of course, what you expect of a PowerPoint presentation from PR and HR people coming from the finest companies is pure excellence, and indeed, there were very good PPTs, but a common factor, when even the best PPT got completely unprofessional,was when a video clip was played within a presentation.ġ) A video was referred as a link and was not inserted as an embedded videoĢ) The video codecs were not uniform or were not appropriate As usual, companies presented themselves to possible new employees with a PowerPoint presentation. In these days I attended one of those work fairs for students and graduates. Furthermore I'll show you how to save your presentation properly to run it directly as Powerpoint Show and how to pack your presentation together with all your video files in a single folder to take it with you on a USB-Stick or CD: This tutorial is to show how to embed a video file into a PowerPoint presentation and reproduce it fullscreen.

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