So another cool trick you can do in PowerPoint is to use a looping video as your background.
It will instantly make it look like a really real video.
So what's a looping background.
Well it's an animated video background so it can go on and on endlessly.
Let me show you an example.
So I want insert video video on my PC and I downloaded this video here which is called Falling Stars.
OK.
So when I start this video it will keep going like this endlessly.
It's a loop.
I mean you can set it to behave as a loop.
So when it will restart it will not actually see that it's restarting.
OK.
So when you go an animation is an animation pane you can see here that you have first action is to start
the video and then another action is to pause the video so you can create anything that you want in
between.
And this new object here will appear and animate and move the way you animated them while the video
in the background is playing.
For example like this
fate
now let's see what happens.
So there's a video.
And then anytime I click right click up the object appears and you can do whatever you want with it.
It will keep on going as a loop.
So this is an interesting way to create a dynamic video because you have that moving background.
However there are several limitations.
The first limitation is that you cannot do transitions between slides because if you do a transition
then the video will stop and will restart at the second slide.
However you can always edit it in the video editing software but it will become really really annoying.
So better to do everything on one slide and the other limitation is where do you find these videos.
Well as usual on the Internet.
So they're called either something like looping videos or a video loop backgrounds.
For example if you go on YouTube and you type looping video all right you have some of them here.
So once again you check the ones which are free or the ones which are paid or you can also just take
a very long video.
Right this video here is three hours.
So it doesn't matter if it's looping or not since your video will be shorter than this.
You can take a big Ransey do like this and then make all your animation on top of it.
Let's see what this is.
For example
you see this is pretty cool actually something related to nature.
You can make all your animations in PowerPoint on top of that video and flowers and everything else
will be moving behind it nicely.
So of course you always have to check whether this video is free or how you download it and to practice.
Don't forget that you can use this thing called Klip converter.
Right.
So you can clip converter you copy the link of the video here and then continue.
And that way you will be able to download any video from YouTube.
But of course only do it for practice.
Don't steal videos.
And of course I'm pretty sure there are also specialized web sites which provide you this looping videos.
Now let's take a look at another cool thing that you can do with videos in PowerPoint.
So first of all you can actually transform this video as you want.
Right.
So you can rotate it and you can also give it to 3-D shape.
For example here for months video three year rotation.
All right.
You can you can do it like this.
And then you have your video here right now.
Let me show you another example.
Let's take a phone I can from the Noun Project for example this one right now let me inservice I can
play.
Let me take this video once again.
All right.
Inlets corrupt inside the video screen
right let's grab this and let's send it back.
OK.
Now this is cool.
And now let's apply some 3D rotation to all of this.
Like the phone is lying on the table I'm not sure this is correct but whatever this is just to show
you.
So imagine you have this right.
And then and go like this.
Whoops.
I'm not sure I put the animation here.
Oh wow.
OK.
So basically doesn't work if it's grouped the video is grouped so I just ungrouped everything.
So now let's add this animation here play.
And now let's send it to back.
OK.
So basically you can group it together to move it around so they stay proportional both the phone and
the video behind.
And then you grab them and then you make the animation to play.
Now let's see.
All right.
So something like this.
Of course this is very basic I did it in a few seconds but if you want to make it better then you can
have some sort of 3D phone.
And this phone can be playing showing something on the side of your PowerPoint of course have to move
both of them together and then you can be explaining something else on this side of the powerpoint.
While there is a video playing on the other side.
So this is pretty cool.
And finally the last thing which concerns video is that PowerPoint integrated a function to create screen
casts so you can actually do screen casts thanks to PowerPoint.
So just go here and you click on screen recording and then you can select the area that you want to
record right.
Select areas are like this and you say record
and now it will start recording etc..
So whatever you do is this
and then you can just go up here and click stop
right.
So now this video was generated inside power and now it will start recording cetera.
So whatever you do is this
right so this is a basic screen casting solution but it works if you don't have a screen casting software
you can use this and it works very well.
All right.
Oh and finally while we're here if you want to paste a screenshot of something on PowerPoint.
Well it's very simple.
You just go to what you want to make a screenshot of.
So let's say it's a Web site.
All right.
So you want to make a screenshot of this.
So you press the button screen screenshot on your keyboard.
Right.
And then you just paste it inside PowerPoint like control V and that's it.
And here you have your screenshot.