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Incorporating Video Clips
Your first step is to place the movie clip on the slide. After that you can worry about the position, size, and playing poptions. Just as with audio clips, you can place the clip from a file or from the Clip Organizer. (Of course, it has to already be in the Clip Organizer to use that method; you can add video clips to the Clip Organizer the same as you added artwork in Chapter 9.)
| Caution | Video clips are linked, not embedded, in the presentation. If you move the presentation file to another location, make sure you move the movie clips too. For this reason, inserting videos from the Clip Organizer may not be a good idea; it's linked from the original location and difficult to move if you move the presentation.Animated GIFs are different; they are embedded like normal graphics (select Insert⇨Picture⇨From File). |
Inserting a Video Clip From the Clip Organizer
Just as with sounds and graphics, you can organize movie files with the Clip Organizer. Most of the clips that are in the Clip Organizer are animated GIFs, but a few are AVI format instead, offering more options. You won't find any live-action video clips in the Clip Organizer unless they were cataloged from content that was already on your hard disk. (However, you can catalog such clips to make them appear there, as you learned in Chapter 9.)To insert a movie from the Clip Organizer, choose Insert⇨Movies and Sounds⇨Movie from Clip Organizer. The Clip Organizer task pane appears with the file type set to show only movies. All the available clips in the specified location(s) appear by default; you can filter the list with keywords just like with clip art (see Chapter 12).
Figure 14-3: Insert movies from the Clip Organizer.
| Note | The Clip Organizer shows real movies mixed up together with animated GIFs in the search results. Check a clip's properties if you're in doubt as to its type. |
| Caution | Unlike normal clip art, most videos and animated GIFs lose quality when you resize them. Try to use a movie clip at as close to its original size as possible. |
If you find some movies or animated GIFs that you would like to have available later, you might want to add them to the local collection of clips on your hard disk. That way if your Internet connection is not available later, you can still access them.
| XREF | See Chapter 9 for information about the Clip Organizer and making clips available offline. |
Inserting a Movie From a File
If the movie is not in the Clip Organizer and you don't want to bother with placing it there, you can place it directly just like any other content. Use the Insert⇨Movies and Sounds⇨Movie from File command if you want it to play from within PowerPoint (recommended, if possible), or use Insert⇨Object to insert it to play with some external player for that type of content.
