How to Insert a YouTube Video into Google Slides
Google Docs is the online alternative to Microsoft Office offering different apps like Docs (like Microsoft Word), Sheets (like Microsoft Excel) and Slides (like Microsoft PowerPoint. It is an excellent alternative to the offering from Microsoft. The Google Docs apps run online and you can access them anywhere through a web browser.
Google Slide works like PowerPoint and allows you to make slide presentations easily. You can add text, photos, graphics and videos. Watching videos in slides has a way of gaining viewers attention more than other kinds of media. Using slides without videos in presentation can be boring to a point but having some video in the presentation can make things more interesting.
Videos particularly adds spice to a presentation and makes your presentation professional. In this post, we examine how to embed YouTube video into Google Slide.
How to Insert a YouTube Video into Google Slides
Here’s how to insert a YouTube video within a Google Slides.
1. Sign into Google Drive and click the + button to create a new document. Select Google Slides. This will cause a new presentation document to be launched.
2. Choose from any of the theme available, import or create a new one.
3. In the menu bar of Google Slides, select Insert and next, Video. You’ll be presented with three options: Search, By URL and Google Drive.
4. You can use the URL option if you have the YouTube video address or use the Search option to look for the YouTube video.
5. Click Select. You’ll see it down the screen. And then after selecting it, the video will be shown on your slide.
A border will surround the video. This border can be used to drag, drop or resize the video. If you drag the corner, you can resize the video.
How to Embed a local or non-YouTube video into Google Slides
Maybe the video you want to embed into your slide is not available on YouTube or you just want to insert a video from your computer. You’ll use Google Drive and embedding this kind of video would just work fine. Here’s how:
1. Sign into Google Drive. Upload your video into Google Drive by dragging and dropping.
2. Right click on the video you uploaded to Google Drive and click Get Link. Copy the link.
3. Screenshot the part of the video you want to use as thumbnail. First, play the video in full screen mode and when you get to the point you want to use as thumbnail, pause the video. Next hit PrtSc on your keyboard and a snapshot will be taken. You can then resize the screenshot in your image editor.
4. When you’re done with editing the screenshot. Upload it to your video in Google Drive.
5. On your slide, click the position you want the video in and click Insert from the menu bar. Next, select Image and put the image into the slide.
6. With the screenshot still selected, click Insert and then Add Link. Paste the link of the video you uploaded to Google Drive and click Apply.
The link will be embedded in the screenshot so that the video streams from Google Drive whenever you click the screenshot.
Rounding Up…
You can give your viewers a more exciting experience by embedding videos in your slides. It engages them and makes this interesting. We hope you found this article helpful. If you did, kindly leave a comment and don’t forget to share.
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