Embed a YouTube video into your Power Point Presentation

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I had a user have a problem with embedding a video into her or his Power Point presentation. The main cause iof his problem was because he had a path that was more then 128 Characters. When he would go and play the video it will just show up as a white box where the video should have been playing. So I corrected that problem.

There are different ways to embed a YouTube video in a Microsoft Power Point presentation. The first question that you want to ask your self is do you want to be tied to an internet connection or not. If you want to be tied to a internet coonection that you can embed a the video using the URL. If you don’t want to use the internet then you can download the YouTube video and copy them to your desktop or folder for your Power Point Presentation.

If you want to use your internet connection then there are two ways to embed a Youtube video. The first way that I am going to talk about is using a YouTube Wizard plug-in. You can download it at skp.mvps.org/youtube.htm. What this will do is give you a insert button that all you have to do is paste the YouTube URL of the video and it will insert the video for you. I didn’t even know it was available until I was searching for a way to embed a Youtube Video. The other way is to go to Control ToolBox by going to view then you want to pick more controls and then you want to pick shockwave flash control. You then want to copy the YouTube video URL but in the URL delete “watch?” and change the = sign to a ⁄ so it would look like http://www.youtube.com/v/lJnb5kgoTkA. You want to put the URL in the movie field, the loop is false and playing is false.

With those two methods your video should like the following in your Power Point Presentation.

Embed_YouTube_In_PowerPoint

The other way is downloading the YouTube video at Zamzar.com or MediaConverter.org and they are free websites. They will have different formats that you can save the YouTube video into. I like to save them into WMV. You then just go to Insert and then pick Movies and Sound. You then want to pick Movies from file and then go to the location of your movie file. It will embed the movie file that is stored on your computer to the Power Point presentation.

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October 7, 2009 | Filed Under Technology

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7 Responses to “Embed a YouTube video into your Power Point Presentation”

Walter on October 7th, 2009 9:07 pm

Very useful information you have shared here. This will make a blast in my presentation.
EarningStep on October 7th, 2009 9:31 pm

cool … this will give me more idea when i do some presentation to my customer .. nice
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Greg Ellison on October 7th, 2009 10:45 pm

You guys are welcome. Greg Ellison
Webmaster Forum on October 11th, 2009 7:52 am

Very helpful information, I didn’t know this was possible until now Greg!
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Chris Peterson on October 15th, 2009 5:37 am

That’s a cool information. Best part is that you have created a really practical post from the challenges you faced.
Smart move!
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GYKenny on October 26th, 2009 4:24 pm

I’ve been searching for a lot of time now in order to discover a simple method to be able to download youtube videos .
There are lots them including software programms , plugins for firefox , many scripts etc.. Well most of them are nice at doing what they really do .

But I will mention a method that it’s the most simple that I’ve found. This way includes using http://www.tubeleecher.com.

Ok here are the steps involved

1) go to http://www.tubeleecher.com
2) get the youtube link you want to downlod
3) paste it in the textbox on tubeleecher web page
4) press “Download” and save it

You can watch the video you downloaded with a flash player.
get it here http://download.cnet.com/FLV-Player/3000-13632_4-10467081.html

I’ve found also a youtube video explaining the whole procedure of getting video from youtube with the method described above.
Here it is — >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h87N9F_mdc
HaroldSC on November 3rd, 2009 5:45 pm

I’ve been hunting for days now in order to find a simple trick to be able to download videos from youtube .
There are lots them including software tools , plugins for firefox , various scripts etc.. Well most of them are good at doing their work .

But I will mention a way that it’s the easiest that I’ve found. This trick includes using http://www.tubeleecher.com.

Ok here are the steps involved

1) visit http://www.tubeleecher.com
2) get the youtube link of the video you want to download
3) paste it on tubeleecher web page
4) save the video and you’re done

You can play the video you downloaded with a flash player.
Download it here http://download.cnet.com/FLV-Player/3000-13632_4-10467081.html

I’ve found also a youtube video explaining the whole procedure of getting video from youtube with the method described above.
Here it is — >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h87N9F_mdc