Automatically means it will start immediately after the last animation you added. But if there are other objects animating, then In Click means you have to click for the video to play and other objects may animate first. If you have nothing else animating on the slide, then it’s easy. In Click Sequence and Automatically both mean that the video starts to play when the Play animation is next in the animation order. There are three options here and they can be misleading. Next, still on the Playback tab in the Video Options section in the middle, use the drop-down menu to choose when the video Starts.
It can be tiny or even off the slide entirely, but it will still play full screen with no loss of quality and it will appear in front of all other content, so this is a pretty useful function. There is a check box to Play Full Screen, which means that you can make the video fairly small on the slide, but it will play full screen when in slide show mode. One option, which also works well if you need to share your presentation with others, is to select the video, go to the Playback tab on the ribbon and look at the Video Options section in the middle.
If you want to keep the slide count down, you can insert video into PowerPoint as a layer on a slide. If you have a blank PowerPoint slide, make the video fill the entire screen, so it’s easier for your audience to see what’s going on. If you embed video into PowerPoint slides that have other elements on them, then try to make the video line up with everything else and fit neatly into a set working area. Using the white grab handles, you can resize the video and move it anywhere you like on the slide. The video will appear on your slide just like a standard shape. Once selected, click Insert and you’ll insert video into PowerPoint. Here you can choose Video on My PC and navigate to the appropriate file on your computer. The most reliable way to embed video in PowerPoint is to go the Insert tab on the ribbon, and then Video on the right-hand side.
Read on for step-by-step instructions and more! How to embed a video in PowerPoint There are a couple of options available if you want to embed video in PowerPoint. Video is a great way to engage your audience in a more engaging, dynamic, or emotive way than can be achieved with standard PowerPoint alone.