PowerPoint: Audio and Video

Course details

Make your PowerPoint presentations more memorable and engaging by incorporating audio and video. In this course, Garrick Chow shows how to insert video and audio clips from a variety of sources, including YouTube. He then moves on to the finer points of editing and enhancing video with the built-in tools in PowerPoint. Learn how to trim and crop video, change its size and shape, add a variety of effects, and set various playback options, including automatic playback and looping. Plus, learn how to insert and edit audio files in PowerPoint, and even record audio directly into your presentation.

Note: This course was recorded on PowerPoint for Office 365. Most of the course contents will also be useful to those working with the most recent standalone versions of Office, including Office 2019 and 2016.

Learning objectives
Comparing linking and embedding methods
Inserting videos in presentations
Trimming video
Cropping video
Adjusting brightness and color
Resizing video
Applying effects
Adding audio clips to presentations
Looping video
Triggering playback with objects
Saving multimedia presentations

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Enhance the impact of your presentations with audio and video

1. Manage Multimedia Presentations

02 - Link vs. embed files
03 - Understand video and audio formats

2. Insert Videos

04 - Add a video from your computer
05 - Add a video as an external object
06 - Link to a YouTube video
07 - Insert a video using an action button

3. Edit Videos

08 - Trim a video
09 - Add fades
10 - Crop a video
11 - Select a poster frame
12 - Adjust brightness and contrast
13 - Apply a color cast to a video
14 - Add video bookmarks

4. Format Videos

15 - Resize a video
16 - Play a video in a shape
17 - Use a video as a slide background

5. Apply Video Effects

18 - Apply a preset video style
19 - Design a border
20 - Add shadows
21 - Add reflections
22 - Add glow effects
23 - Add soft edges
24 - Apply a 3D rotation
25 - Apply bevels and 3D formatting
26 - Use Format Painter

6. Add Audio Clips

27 - Add an audio file from your computer
28 - Record directly into PowerPoint
29 - Play audio in an external application
30 - Trim an audio clip

7. Set Video and Audio Playback Options

31 - Set the volume
32 - Play a clip automatically
33 - Play video full screen
34 - Hide the audio clip icon
35 - Loop a video or audio clip
36 - Rewind after playing
37 - Delay playback
38 - Show and hide media controls
39 - Trigger playback with objects
40 - Play content across multiple slides

8. Save Multimedia Presentations

41 - Compress media files
42 - Save as a movie
43 - Extract media asset files

Conclusion

44 - Further information