It is easy to play You Tube videos ( FLV format or MP4) in power point presentation with the help of a handy free application called Any-Video-Converter. This program not only just download the video also will convert it in a way that will make playable right in your presentation. The following points will walk you through the steps of doing just that.
Find the video of your choice in You Tube videos site. Copy the url in the address bar.
Open Any-Video-Converter and select the YouTube Video icon.
Paste the url of the video into the box that appears. Click OK when finished.
After clicking ok, the video name and other details will appear in the main window. Right click on it, and select download FLV. A status bar will appear showing the progress of the download. This will download the video, but keep in mind that it is still in a format that will not play in PowerPoint.
After video has finished downloading, select WMV from the drop down box on the top right of the program window.
Hit the encode button. This will convert your video to a WMV file that can be used in PowerPoint.
When this process has finished, you can find the resulting WMV file in a folder in your My Documents folder. to find it go to My Documents>AnyVideoConverter>WMV.
Open your PowerPoint presentation and go to the page where you wish to play the video. In Office 2007, you will hit the Insert tab, and then select Video From File. Use the box to find the file in the location given above. It will ask you whether you want to play the video automatically or upon being clicked. The video will be inserted on the slide where it can be stretched or placed where you want it.
Once placed on the slide, the video is free to be played anywhere, even if YouTube is blocked.
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