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When you insert a video clip within a PowerPoint slide, you’ll find it placed as a traditional rectangular shape. And that’s what most users expect, as it seems safe and conventional. However, PowerPoint allows your video to play within different shapes such as a circle or oval, or a wave, a triangle, or any of the shapes that PowerPoint’s Shapes gallery includes. However, just the fact that a video can be placed within a shape is no reason to forego the conventional rectangle. Do remember that most other shapes may crop out important parts of your video clips.
To learn more, choose your version of PowerPoint. If we do not have a tutorial for your version of PowerPoint, explore the version closest to the one you use.
Video Shapes in PowerPoint 2016
Video Shapes in PowerPoint 2013
Video Shape in PowerPoint 2010
Movie Shape in PowerPoint 2011
Tutorial Code: 14 02 09
Previous: 14 02 08 Video Effects in PowerPoint
Next: 14 02 10 Crop Video in PowerPoint
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Here’s the most comprehensive list of PowerPoint keyboard shortcuts that we know. How many of these do you presently use? Speed up your PowerPoint usage with these shortcuts, and enjoy some free time!
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If you need to share a PowerPoint presentation with colleagues, or even publish it online, remember that your slides may include hidden data or information that you or your company may not want to share. The Inspect Document option enables you to check your presentation for such hidden properties and personal information, and clean whatever information or data you want to be removed.
To learn more, choose your version of PowerPoint. If we do not have a tutorial for your version of PowerPoint, explore the version closest to the one you use.
Inspect Document in PowerPoint 2016
Inspect Document in PowerPoint 2013
Inspect Document in PowerPoint 2010
Tutorial Code: 16 01 03
Previous: 16 01 02 Check Accessibility in PowerPoint
Next: 16 01 04 Exporting Word Handouts in PowerPoint
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Once you insert a video in your slide, you can crop it in almost the same way you crop a picture. The Crop option allows you to remove non-required areas of a video. For example, if the subject of your video is a speaker surrounded by a large, distracting background of other people or moving objects, you may want to crop the video so that the cropped video now focuses more on the speaker, and gets rid of all extra distractions.
To learn more, choose your version of PowerPoint. If we do not have a tutorial for your version of PowerPoint, explore the version closest to the one you use.
Tutorial Code: 14 02 10
Previous: 14 02 09 Video Shapes in PowerPoint
Next: 14 02 11 Resize, Rotate, and Flip Videos in PowerPoint
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After inserting a video within your presentation, you may see a blank/black rectangle instead—caused by the file format of the video clip inserted on the slide. Not all the formats show these blank/black rectangles. In fact, you may also see the first frame of the video clip in some cases. However, if you do see this blank/black rectangle, do note that it may look professional. With PowerPoint’s Poster Frame option, you can easily overcome this limitation, and change the black rectangle to a picture of your choice by selecting a frame from the video itself, or even a picture from a different source.
To learn more, choose your version of PowerPoint. If we do not have a tutorial for your version of PowerPoint, explore the version closest to the one you use.
Poster Frames for Videos in PowerPoint 2016
Poster Frames for Videos in PowerPoint 2013
Poster Frames for Videos in PowerPoint 2010
Poster Frames for Videos in PowerPoint 2011
Tutorial Code: 14 02 03
Previous: 14 02 02 Insert Video Clips from the Clip Art Pane in PowerPoint
Next: 14 02 04 Video Correction Adjustments in PowerPoint
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