Live photos and movies can make your PowerPoint presentations more varied and help keep your audience's attention. In this article, we show you how to apply and insert movies in a presentation! This instruction is taken from the 4D Consultants textbook that is used on the 4D Consultants Microsoft PowerPoint courses.

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• Movie in PowerPoint presentations - File types • Insert movie from file • Film settings • Playing movies in one or more slides • PowerPoint and 4D Consultants maps

Film in a presentation

You can insert movies, animated GIF files or Flash files in PowerPoint to create "live " images. This may be useful if you want to emphasize a message for a group of listeners. Movie PowerPoint supports the most common movie formats such as MPEG or AVI and more versions of these as. eg. mpg and mov. A typical movie can be the company's new commercial movie. You can use a movie for educational purposes or to perform a demonstration.

Animated GIF files

Animation effects can be obtained using animated GIF files. It's not a movie, but a series of drawn characters that appear quickly after each other, creating an animation. Often they are used as a fun effect in your presentation. There are a lot of available GIF animations under Multimedia Clip.

Flash files

Flash files are typically used for graphic animations on websites. The advantage of Flash is that you can use the same image multiple times. If you have animated graphics created using Adobe Macromedia Flash and saved it as a Shockwave file with the swf file extension name, you can play the file in a PowerPoint presentation using the ActiveX object called Shockwave Flash Object, and Adobe Macromedia Flash Player.

Insert movie from file

You can add movies from a file via Insert | Media Clip | Film | Movie from file... In the Insert Movie dialog box, select the desired movie and then click OK. When you insert a movie on a slide, decide how to start playback in the slide show. Playback of the movie can be done automatically when viewing the slide or when clicking on the movie itself. Movies are chained with the presentation and not included in it as a copy. When inserting a linked movie, a chain is created for the current location of the movie. If you then move the movie to a new location, PowerPoint can not find it when the movie is playing. TIP: Before inserting your movie into the presentation, it is smart to copy the movie to the same file folder. When creating a chain for the movie, PowerPoint can always find the movie if it is saved in the folder for the presentation. Then the presentation can then be moved to another folder or computer. To make sure that the linked files are available in the same folder as your presentation, you can use the Package to CD-Read option. More in the Import and Export module.

Movie settings

After you have inserted a movie in the presentation and the movie is selected, an additional contextual tab, Movie Tools, will appear, where you can specify some different settings for how the movie will be played in the presentation.

Hide under slideshow

Use this option only if you specified that the movie should be played automatically or if you have created another form of control, such as. a trigger to click on to play the movie.

Play movie

When you insert a movie, you must specify whether the sound is playing automatically or when clicked. If you wish to change this later, do this via the Play Movie option.

Play in full screen

This setting causes the movie to be played in full screen. Once the movie is played, it returns to its original size. Note that movies must be optimized to appear in full screen, otherwise you may risk the quality getting poor and blurred when enlarged. Play a movie continuously for a single slideshow A movie is played once, which is the default for movies in PowerPoint. If you want to repeat the movie, that is, when the movie is finished playing, it starts automatically again, you can select the repeat option until the show is canceled through Movie Tools. This means that the movie is repeated until you click on the slide or use the keyboard. Powerpoint courses. Whether you are a routine user or beginner in one of the Office programs, you can find the course that meets your needs. See all our Office courses in our online course catalog at www.4d.dk. Once you have found your course, you can immediately view all course dates one year ahead and also see if there are available seats on the desired date.