HomeVideos are an effective way to explain complicated subjects or demonstrating a product or process. That's why many people want to embed a video to PowerPoint presentation. But PowerPoint doesn't support any video format to embed. For example, if you insert an AVI video to PowerPoint, you may get failure. To make it more clear, you can see the supported video and audio formats of PowerPoint below.
Video and audio file formats supported in PowerPoint
Applies To: PowerPoint 2016 PowerPoint 2013 PowerPoint 2010 PowerPoint 2007 More...
Video recommendations: In PowerPoint 2010, we recommend that you use .wmv files. In PowerPoint 2013 and later, and in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac, for the best video playback experience, we recommend that you use .mp4 files encoded with H.264 video (a.k.a. MPEG-4 AVC) and AAC audio.
Audio recommendations: In PowerPoint 2010, use .wav or .wma files. In newer versions of desktop PowerPoint, use .m4a files encoded with AAC audio.
This supported video and audio formats are extracted Office Support site. So the information will be credible. From the information, we can know clearly that AVI is not a friendly format to PowerPoint, especially to PowerPoint 2013 and later versions. To fix the problem that PowerPoint doesn't accept AVI, you can use a file converter to convert AVI to PowerPoint more supported MP4 video for PowerPoint 2013 and later version or transcode AVI to WMV for PowerPoint 2010 or 2007 version.
Best Software to Convert AVI to PowerPoint 2016, 2013, 2010, 2007
A web search for "video converter" will show you numerous converters. One of the excellent video converters is Pavtube Video Converter. This award-winning video transcoder can transcode various AVI videos to PowerPoint 2016, 2013, 2010, 2007. It can convert DivX AVI, XviD AVI to PowerPoint and also can transcode Fraps AVI, Camtasia Studio AVI, Action! RAW AVI files to PowerPoint supported WMV and H.264 MP4 with AAC audio. You can freely check and change the video and audio codec, bitrate, frame rate to make the video more suitable for PowerPoint.
Before converting AVI to PowerPoint, you can trim a long AVI video to a small clip or merge some AVI clips into a single one file. If your AVI video has some black area, you can crop it using this software. If needed, you also can insert and hard burn external subtitles to the AVI video files. Pavtube Video Converter works only on Windows. For Mac users, the equivalent Pavtube Video Converter for Mac can help convert AVI to PowerPoint on macOS High Serria, macOS Sierra and El Capitan.
Step-by-Step to Re-encode AVI to PowerPoint 2016, 2013, 2010, 2007
Step 1. Load AVI files
Once you have successfully launched the AVI to PPT Converter software, the very next step is to load the video AVI file that you want to convert. There are two methods with which you can load the files. You can add the files easily by dragging it into the interface or by clicking on the “Add Files” button located at the top. Once you have clicked on the “Add Files” button, it will open a file explorer from where you can choose the desired .avi video file for conversion. This software supports batch conversion so that you can add multiple AVI files to batch convert to PPT.
In addition, Pavtube Video Converter also supports to convert MP4, MKV, FLV, etc to PPT, so you can add other formats video here.
Step 2: Choose PowerPoint Supported format
What format should we choose? It depends. If you use PowerPoint 2013 and later version, the MP4 format is suggested while WMV format is recommended for PowerPoint 2010 and lower version.
After selected the format, you can click "Settings" to check the video and audio parameters. For example, you should make sure that if your MP4 video is H.264 video codec and AAC audio codec. If you need to reduce the video size, you can adjust video bitrate. The output video size can be previewed at the bottom chart.
Step 3: Start to convert AVI to PowerPoint
Press on "Convert" button to start to convert AVI to PowerPoint 2016, 2013, 2010, etc. Once the conversion ends, you can get the generated files in output folder.
How to Embed Converted AVI to PowerPoint?
In PowerPoint 2010 and later, you can link or embed a video from your PC directly into your presentation. So you can directly add your converted AVI video to PowerPoint from PC or you can upload your video to YouTube then insert the URL to the PPT.
Embed a video stored on your PC
1. In Normal view, click the slide in which you want to embed the video.
2. On the Insert tab, in the Media group, click the arrow under Video.
3. Select Video from file, and then browse to the location of your video, and select it.
4. On the Insert button, click the down arrow, and then click Insert.
Link to a video stored on your PC
1. On the Slides tab in Normal view, click the slide to which you want to add a video or animated GIF file.
2. On the Insert tab, in the Media group, click the arrow under Video.
3. Select Video from file, and then browse to the location of your video, and select it.
4. On the Insert button, click the down arrow, and then click Link to file.
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