If you've been around 20 years or poor, you know that we're living in a multimedia world and that images
and text just aren't enough anymore.
So we're going to add video to our Google Slides presentations.
Let me show you how.
I've got a blank presentation here, and I'm simply going to move to insert and video here, I have
three options I can search YouTube like we did earlier in the course.
I can provide a specific YouTube URL.
That's what I'm going to do.
I've already got one stored on the clipboard and notice.
It gave me a preview of the video, and now I'm going to click Select.
Once I do, it loads the video onto my slide.
There's a couple of options for the video here in the format options on the right hand side.
I have some options for video playback.
I can play on click, I can play automatically or I can do manual play.
I can also start at a specific point in the video and end at a specific point in the video.
So if I wanted to start at two minutes, 30 seconds.
And only play two or three minutes, 30 seconds.
I could just enter the numbers right here.
I also have the option to mute the audio.
Like any other element, I can control the size and rotation and the position from the Format Options
Bar.
Changing the size of the video is just like changing the size of an image.
I can drag away from the center or towards the center to change the size.
Here you can see I've got the image just about filling the slide.
I can click play.
As I go through the gate, I remember and the video will run right here, even while I'm designing the
slide.
If I want to go back to the initial state, I just click outside of the video itself.
I'm going to erase this video.
There are other times when I might want to use a video that isn't on YouTube, something I've shot myself.
So because this is part of the Google apps family, we have to upload the video to Google Drive first.
Google Drive is the cloud storage that's paired with Google Slides, Google Sheets and Google Docs.
If we have the video uploaded, it's easy to inserted into our presentation.
I'm going to go to insert.
VIDEO and click on the Google Drive option.
And here it shows me the videos that are in our Google Drive.
I don't remember what I'm doing in any of these videos, but I'll just click this one.
To select.
And the video is embedded.
We have all the same options that we had with the YouTube video, we can preview it, position it,
et cetera.
So that's it.
Videos in our presentations are pretty easy.
You just got to remember, if it's not on YouTube, you've got to upload the video content to your Google
Drive presence first.