PowerPoint 2007: Insert YouTube Videos, Part 2

by AJ George

Last week I showed you how to insert YouTube videos into a PowerPoint 2007 presentation, but in order for it to work you would need to be presenting on a computer with an internet connection. This week I'll show you how to insert a YouTube video when the computer you'll be presenting from does not have an internet connection.

1. Find the YouTube video you would like to insert into your PowerPoint presentation.
   
   
2. Copy the URL for the video.
   
   
3. Navigate to www.mediaconverter.org (there are other free media converters, but I've tried and had success with this one) and click Enter a link.
   
   
4. Paste in the URL for the YouTube video and click OK.
   
   
5. Click go to the next step.
   
   
6. Select an output file type and click OK.
   
   You can choose either avi or wmv, but if you will be following along next week to learn how to insert YouTube videos into PowerPoint 2008 for the Mac, I would choose wmv.
   
   
7. Click Start to begin the conversion.
   
   
8. When finished, click Download and save the file to your desired location.
   
   
9. In PowerPoint, select the slide on which you would like to insert the video.
   
   
10. On the Insert tab choose Movie > Movie from File.
    
    
    
    
11. Navigate to where you have saved the downloaded video and click OK.
    
    
12. When asked how you would like the movie to start in PowerPoint, click When Clicked (unless you would like the video to begin playing automatically).
    
    
    
    
13. Move and resize the inserted video as desired.
    
    
14. When you view your slide show, click the video to play it.
    
    Click the video again to pause or stop it.
    
    

 

Related Posts:

PowerPoint 2007: Insert YouTube Videos (with internet)

PowerPoint 2008 for the Mac: Inserting YouTube Videos

PowerPoint 2010: Inserting YouTube Videos

Video image source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Bmhjf0rKe8

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About the author: AJ George is IconLogic's lead Technical Writer and author of the both "PowerPoint 2007: The Essentials" and  "PowerPoint 2008 for the Macintosh: The Essentials." You can follow AJ on Twitter at http://twitter.com/andrayajgeorge.

Comments

[Anthony]

Thanks! I'm glad there is finally a workaround for this. It's terrible being able to create a PowerPoint on my computer with full functionality and not have any work on another.

[susanne]

Although it is a quick and foolproof solution, I'm a bit concerned about copyright violation using this method. Isn't permission from the video creator required prior to downloading a YouTube video? What exactly is the rule? When do FairUse and TEACH apply?

[AJ George]

Hi Susanne,

I had never downloaded videos for use in PowerPoint in a setting where it would have been an issue, so I'd never really thought about it, but you inspired me so I made a call to our coporate lawyer for some answers and posted a blog post up about it today.
Check it out here:
http://iconlogic.blogs.com/weblog/2011/04/elearning-is-using-copyrighted-materials-okay-.html

[suzanne]

After some hiccups I managed to succesfully insert my clip into PPT which was an amazing feeling after so long with no success! Thank you! The only problem I have now is the sound is not playing - can you please advise? Thank you. My presentation is in the week so the sooner the better please! Thanks.