Tech Tip #30 from the MSU OIT Technology, Training, and Integration Division
If you’d like to include a YouTube clip as part of your PowerPoint presentation, you can easily embed a video to play directly within your slideshow.
- After copying the YouTube video’s URL, you need to add the Developer tab to your PowerPoint Ribbon
- Click on File and select Options
- Click on Customize Ribbon
- Under Choose commands from: select All Tabs
- Click on Developer and click Add
- Click OK
- On the Developer tab, click on More Controls in the Controls group
- Select Shockwave Flash Object from the list
- Click OK
- Draw a box on the slide where you want the video
- Right-click on the box and select Properties
- In the Movie line, paste the YouTube video’s URL. You must change the watch?v= to v/ in the URL. For example; when you paste the video URL it will look something like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlPqL7IUT6M. Change the highlighted section to v/ so it will look like this:http://www.youtube.com/v/AlPqL7IUT6M
- Run the slideshow to see the video