Friday, March 25, 2011

How to Add a MP4 Video into PowerPoint 2007

As we know Office PowerPoint provides us a "Insert" function to add picture, music and video into PowerPoint slide. Many people like to add short videos to make the PPT more attractive. But the video format supported by PowerPoint is limited. The best formats that all PowerPoint versions can support are AVI and WMV, which are created by Microsoft itself.

But if you want to add a MP4 video to PowerPoint, which is the representative of High definition videos, you have to check your PowerPoint version first.

For PowerPoint 2003 or below, there is no way to add a MP4 video.

For PowerPoint 2010, you can directly click "Insert" to add MP4 video to PowerPoint slide.

However, the PowerPoint 2007 is special that I need to explain it in detail.
Though you cannot click "Insert" to add a MP4 video directly, there is another way.

Step 1: Enable control.

Because the default state in PowerPoint 2007, the control function is hidden, we need to enable it firstly as follows:

1. Left click" office button" in PowerPoint 2007

2. Hit" PowerPoint options" to open it

3. In the open box, select" Popular" tab, check the option that "Show developer tab in the ribbon", at last click" OK".

Add MP4 Video into PowerPoint 2007 - 1

Return to the PowerPoint edition interface, there will be a new option-"developer" on the toolbar.

Step 2: How to Insert a MP4 video

1.Click" developer" button to enter its menu layout

2. Select" More controls" button in " control" area, there will pop up a dialogue box

Add MP4 Video into PowerPoint 2007 - 2

3. In the dialogue box, select" Windows Media Player", click" OK" to close the dialogue box. Then the mouse will become"+".

4. Drag the mouse, the player interface of Windows Media Player will appear in the PPT.

5. Select the player interface, right click, select" properties", a dialogue box will pop up.

Add MP4 Video into PowerPoint 2007 - 3

6. Input the path and name of video file in" URL" option.

7. Close" properties" window, and you have inserted the MP4 video successfully.

When playing the MP4 video that is inserted into the PowerPoint, you have full control options such as play, pause, volume or stop.

Want to know more about PowerPoint?
at 3/25/2011 05:06:00 PM
Labels:

9 comments:

  1. Awesome, thanks :)
    Any idea how to make the "Fullscreen" option persist? ie: under "Custom" on the properties tag, I can specify Fullscreen playback. But if for any reason the video is Escaped, then the playback is no-longer fullscreen, and I have to go all the way back into Properties again to reset it.

    ReplyDelete

  2. The following is a step by step guide on how to convert MP4 to PowerPoint Presentation compatible format on Windows or Mac at http://www.bigasoft.com/articles/how-to-play-mp4-in-powerpoint.html. Then it is dead easy to insert and embed the converted MP4 to PowerPoint for easy play.

    This guide applies to:

    Convert and play MP4 files in any version of PowerPoint Presentation including PowerPoint 2010, 2007, 2003, 2000, 2002, 2005 or even PowerPoint 95, 97.

    Convert Flip MP4 to PowerPoint compatible format for easy insert and play

    Convert MP4 video from iTunes to PowerPoint for easy insert MP4 into PowerPoint

    Convert MP4 files from QuickTime/iMovie/iDVD to PowerPoint supported video format

    Convert MP4 from iPad/iPhone/iPod to PowerPoint supported format

    Convert MP4 downloaded from YouTube or other websites to PowerPoint

    Convert MP4 to PowerPoint supported MPEG, WMV, MOV, AVI, ASF, SWF

    Convert and play other video formats including FLV, F4V, SWF, H.264, MKV, 3GP, RMVB, WebM, VOB, DV and more in PowerPoint Presentation

    ReplyDelete

  3. Thanks for sharing your info. I really appreciate your efforts and I will be waiting for your further write ups thanks once again.
    html5 audio player

    ReplyDelete

  4. you may also refer to this step by step guide on how to add mp4 to powerpoint at http://powerpoint-software.blogspot.com/2012/03/how-to-play-mp4-in-powerpoint.html

    ReplyDelete

  5. Nice tutorial. I would just like to say thanks, for your instructions worked first time.
    convert a dvd to a mp4 file

    ReplyDelete

  6. You make some very great points that all should follow!  I will need to deeply consider some of them! It really isn't that easy as the many people make it seem.  You really ought to be very very persistenet and you should never give up.  The results will show in due time.
    Electrical Engineering

    ReplyDelete

  7. This seems quite helpful. I shall try it.

    ReplyDelete

  8. I tried it and it really worked.

    ReplyDelete

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)