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How
to avoid the wait time of loading a YouTube video during your presentation?
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Getting
Started
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the installation is complete, a new button - Insert Flash Movie…
- appears on a floating palette in the working area of PowerPoint,
as well as in PowerPoint's Insert menu. Open an existing PowerPoint
presentation, or create a new presentation, then choose the slide
or slides in the presentation where you want music to play. |
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How
to Insert a Movie
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1. Inside PowerPoint select Insert
> PowerPlugs: FlashReady or from the floating FlashReady menu
- Insert Flash Movie
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| 2. You will see the following
dialog. |
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3. To insert a Flash movie click
on your choice of gallery images above.
4. Or click on the "..."
button to select another Flash movie not included in the gallery.
When you click on the “…” button above, you will
see two options:
a) Flash Movie on this PC
b) Online Video
5. To insert a Flash movie available on your machine click on
- Flash Movie on this PC. It will bring up a standard file Open
dialog. Use it to select any (.swf format) Flash movie on your
PC which will then be automatically inserted into PowerPoint..
6. To select a Flash video available anywhere on the Web click
on - Online Video. It will then open up the dialog box below.
7. Now, for your convenience, using the dialog box above you may
use the “Open Web Browser” button below to start up
your default Web browser (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox).
8. Use your browser to find the Flash video you’d like to
insert on YouTube.com or any other such video sharing site.
9. Then copy and past the Internet
address of that video (such as: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXFi7AdhhGk)
into the white text entry box below.
10.Then click OK and you should ready to go with your Flash video
inserted into PowerPoint.
11. Tip: If you want to move the Flash video after it has
been inserted, you can simply click on it and drag it to your
preferred location. To resize it, click on the Flash movie, then
click on the small white circles with black borders that appear
on the sides or top and bottom, and drag them to achieve your
Flash movie’s preferred size.
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How
to avoid the wait time of loading a YouTube video during your presentation?
To avoid the wait time of loading a YouTube
video during your presentation, here is a simple workaround
1. Before you present your presentation, select “View Show” or “View
Show with Effects”.
2. Go to the slide with a YouTube video embedded.
3. Hit “Play” to let the video load.
4. Once the video has loaded completely, hit “Play” again to pause the
video.
5. Then drag the timeline slider back to the beginning of the video.
(You must drag the slider back to the beginning; otherwise the video
will freeze when you return to the YouTube slide.)
6. Then return to the title slide for your presentation and then proceed
normally from there.
How
to Remove Flash Movie
Steps to remove music from individual
slide(s):
Select the Flash Movie that you've applied to your presentation.
Click the "Delete" button.
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