How to Add a FLV to PowerPoint

Video Transcript

"Hi my name is Dave Casuto and I am the Director of San Francisco Computer Tutors here in San Francisco, California. In this tutorial we are going to show you how to embed flash files into a Powerpoint presentation. This can be a little bit of a complicated task so bear with me here but you will see that it is pretty easy once you know the steps. So we're in Powerpoint 2007. So up here you are going to have your conceptual tabs up at the top and we want to go to our developer tab. Now you notice here you don't have as many icons which is really nice but you're going to have one section called your controls. Now you are going to see something that looks like a hammer and a wrench. That's where we are going to go because we want to go to more controls because what we see here is not enough. So we are going to have a little window pop up in just a second and then what we want to do is scroll all the way down until we get to Shock Wave Flash Objects because that's what we are embedding. So we click on that and then click o'kay and what we are going to do is we are going to draw out a box for our movie. Just like that, we click on this box and right now it is empty and we just have to bring it in. So at this point what you want to do is right click on that box and choose properties. Now on the left hand side a very big and intimidating window is going to pop up for you. So starting from the top what we want to do is we want to change some of these things to allow the movie to come in. So over here it says embed movie, so we want to go to the right of that and then click the word false and you see a little drop down comes up and we want to change false to true and then we want to go to loop to say instead of true we want to say false. Now this is the most important part is we want to put in the path or the file path basically where your computer is, where your program is located where this file, this flash file is located and we want to put that in. So I did that earlier I went in and just copied the path from my documents to where it was and now I can just paste it in. So I'm going to click on there, right click and then you see there it is so in my computer it is in my C drive, documents and settings in a folder called flash play and then globe.swf, alright and then I'm done. So it should be an swf or an flv file for this to work and then I'm going to come over here and then I'm going to actually play it by hitting F5 and you'll see just like that I have brought in a flash file, alright isn't that cool? So it is as easy as that so go ahead and review this video until you get that down pretty good but it is not as hard as it seems but a really nice impact for when you are doing presentations or anything else you can bring in all the hard work you have on Flash or anyone else has done and bring it into your Powerpoint presentation. Alright well I hope you had as much fun as I did. Feel free to contact me at any time at dave@deyec that's deyec.com and you can check me out on the web also at deyec.com. Thanks and have a great day."