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Study Section 8: Inserting Videos into your Presentation

8.1 Connect

Everyone likes a movie! In fact, for some people, going to and watching a movie is a very
special event in their lives. People can watch videos much longer than they can sit and listen
to a speaker, because the video involves images they can see and sound they can hear.
Videos capture the mind and imagination of the viewer. They are very powerful and can be
an effective visual aid to bring home a message to an audience. So we need to learn how to
incorporate videos in our presentations. And we may need to edit our videos before placing
them on our presentation, so we will look at some of the best video-editing programs which are FREE to
use.

Today we are going to learn how to insert videos into a PowerPoint or Keynote presentation as well as
learn how to turn them on during our presentation. We also want to learn how to edit our videos.
Sound exciting? Let dive in…..

8.2 Objectives

1. The student should be able to insert a video in their Keynote or PowerPoint presentation.

2. The student will investigate various free video editing programs and should be able to
identify one that would work best for them.

8.3 Inserting Videos into Keynote

Inserting videos into Keynote, on a MAC, is, thankfully, pretty simple.

1. Open a new slide, select Insert > Choose.
2. Highlight the file you want and click Insert. Keynote supports .mov, .mpg4, .mp3.
3. You can set up Keynote to automatically convert movies in your presentation to
H.264 (720 p) so they play on iOS devices. To do this, in Preferences (click on Keynote in top-
left corner) click the checkbox for “Optimize movies for iOS.”
4. Click and drag the corners to resize your videos. Resize and then run the video to test the
resolution. Remember when your video is projected across a conference room onto a screen
you are better to have the image small with high-clarity, rather than try to fill the screen. I will
sometimes make the slide background black to make the small size of the video less obvious.
5. Once inserted, Keynote offers some slick control features:

• Click on the movie and you’ll see the “Movie” tab in the right panel.
• To trim the start and end points, slide the “Trim” tab.
• To change the image that shows before the movie starts, slide the “Poster Frame”
• To make the video start automatically, un-click “Start movie on click”

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