Video in PowerPoint – Basics: Crop Video in PowerPoint

Created: Friday, July 14, 2017, posted by Geetesh at 10:26 am

Updated: Thursday, March 17, 2022 at 3:59 pm

Insert a video in your slide, and you can crop it in the same way you crop a picture. The Crop option allows you to remove non-required areas of a video.

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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.

Microsoft Windows

Crop Video in PowerPoint 2016

Crop Video in PowerPoint 2013

Crop Video in PowerPoint 2010

Apple Mac

Crop Movie in PowerPoint 2011

PowerPoint Crop Video

Tutorial Code: 14 02 10
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