Inserting Videos and Narration

When inserting movies into your presentation, you have two choices. You can choose a movie from your own file or you can insert a movie or motion clip from the Clip Gallery. PowerPoint automatically has motion clips in the Clip Gallery. Motion clips are like clip art except the images include animation. This animation can be seen when you run the slide show.

• Inserting Movies: From Clip Gallery
  
  • View the appropriate slide in Normal view
  • From the Insert menu, select Movies and Sounds » Movie from Clip Organizer. The Insert Clip Art task pane appears with all choices displayed.
    
  • The Clip Gallery dialog box appears.
  • Navigate through the different motion clip categories.
  • Select the appropriate movie.
  • The movie appears on your slide.
• Inserting Movies: From File
  When creating a movie using a digital camera, its file format is usually MPG of MPEG format. To insert digital camera MPG/MPEG movies, follow the steps below:
  • View the appropriate slide in Normal view
  • From the Insert menu, select Movies and Sounds » Movie from File. The Insert Movie dialog box appears.
  • Navigate through the different folders and files and select the appropriate movie.
  • Click OK
  • The movie appears on your slide.

  When creating a movie using a digital camcorder the file is usually avi format and is quite large. Because these files are often too large to load into PowerPoint you will need to link directly to the file outside of the presentaition. To insert avi and other large movie files, follow the directions below:

  • View the appropriate slide in Normal view
  • You will need to open the AutoShapes dropdown list to create a button to the page or simply type the text you want to click on to go to the file. To create an action button, follow this link and instead of a url, simply
  • Navigate through the different folders and files and select the appropriate movie.
  • Click OK.
  • The movie appears on your slide.
    
• Inserting Narration
  Perhaps you would like someone else to speak during the presentation. With PowerPoint XP you can record your own narration and select the slide to which you want the narration applied.
  NOTE: In order to record narration you must have a microphone. There are two ways to do this. I find the first to be the most reliable.
• Recording From the Sound Record Option in the Accessories Menu.
  • Open the Sound Record Option (Programs>Accessories>Entertainment>Sound Record.

  

  • The sound recorder dialog box will open:



• Click the red button to record. When finished click the black square stop button. Rewind and then click the play button to hear your recording.
• If you are satisfied with the recording, click File, save as, and give it a name, example slide1.
• Insert this sound just as you would insert a sound from a saved file (Insert>Sound>Vrom File)
• Record Narration Within PowerPoint
  • View the appropriate slide in Normal view.
  • From the Slide Show menu, select Record Narration.

• The Record Narration dialog box appears.

• If this is the first time you are recording narration, click Set Microphone Level.
• The Microphone Check dialog box appears.

• Follow the directions on the Microphone Check dialog box and click OK.
• To begin recording, from the Record Narration dialog box, click OK. A slide selection dialog box appears.
• To have the recording start on the current slide, click CURRENT SLIDE OR To have the recording start at the first slide, click FIRST SLIDE.
  
• The slide show automatically starts at the selected slide.
• As you go through each slide, add appropriate narration. NOTE: At the end of the show an alert box appears asking if you want to save slide timings.
• To save the slide timings, click SAVE OR To only save the narration, click DON'T SAVE.