Microsoft 365: PowerPoint Intermediate (2023): Audio and Video

Name: Microsoft 365: PowerPoint Intermediate (2023): Audio and Video
Author: Deanna Schmuck

Insert audio and video into your Microsoft PowerPoint presentations

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Hello. In this lesson, I will show you which audio file types can be inserted into PowerPoint and then how to insert audio files. Inserting audio into PowerPoint can enhance your presentation significantly. With audio added to your presentation, you can engage your audience with music, narration, sound effects, all that complement your content. Microsoft PowerPoint 365 web supports a variety of audio file formats that can be inserted into your presentation. Some of the most common audio file formats supported are listed here for you, such as MP3. These file formats are widely used for recording, storing, and playing, back, high quality audio. Additionally, PowerPoint web allows you to embed online audio files from popular streaming services like YouTube. So this gives you a wide range of options for including different types of audio content into your presentations, from background music to voiceovers, sound effects, and more. When adding audio files to your presentation, just remember the file size and compatibility with different devices to ensure that your presentation runs smoothly for all viewers. You can access royalty free music and sound effects by creating a free account at studio.youtube.com. I have this here for you. So I have already created my free account, and I have it open in a separate tab. I'm going to go to the next slide here that we will use to insert some audio files. And I am going to go to my tab that I have open. I've already created this free account and signed into it. And let's take a look. So I'm in studio and I'm going to look on the left hand side here and we're going to go to audio library. I click on audio library and I've got all sorts of different music under this tab, under the music tab that we can use in a presentation. I've got sound effects that we can use in a presentation, kids playing, a truck driving, all sorts of fun, different things, train whistles. And then I have this starred category. I have nothing in here yet, but if I see something that I like, say under music, I can click to add the star and it'll put it under starred for us. It's kind of like saving it. Okay, we have a play button that we can listen to each of these. I'll go ahead and click on one. Okay, so I stopped that. If I liked that music, again, I could start it to add to the starred section, but what I can also do is come all the way over to the right hand side and I can click download. So what we need to do is we need to download this music to our own computer so that we can upload it or insert it into PowerPoint. So let's find a few things that we like. Let's pick a song or under music and then let's pick a sound effect. I'm going to come over to the right hand side of that and I'm going to click download and that is going to download as an MP3 to my computer. And we had said previously that an MP3 is an acceptable file format. Let's go over to sound effects. How about train whistle? Let's listen to that. Okay, I'm going to download the wooden train whistle. I'm going to click download. It's going to download to my computer. So now I can go back to my PowerPoint by clicking on the tab at the top and we can insert these videos now that we just downloaded. Okay, let's go to insert and then we're going to go to audio and we are then going to need to navigate our own computers. I'm going to go to my downloads and I am first going to upload on what we found under music afflutes morning. I'm going to click on that and click open. It takes just a second to upload and then you get this picture of a speaker and that picture can be moved around. When you click on it though, you can see that it's more than just a picture. That is your audio file that you could play here. Okay, so we uploaded the music. Now let's upload or insert the sound effect. Insert audio. And here is it's under my downloads. The wooden train whistle sound effect that I downloaded. I'm going to click on it and click open. And again, you're going to get just this picture of the speaker. But you can see that it's more than just a picture. Let's click play. Okay, so once you have added an audio file to your slide, you can adjust various settings to customize the audio playback and we will explore that in the next lesson. So stay tuned for the next lesson where I will show you how to adjust various settings to customize your audio playback. Thank you for watching.

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Course Description

Adding audio and video elements to a PowerPoint presentation can significantly enhance the overall impact, effectiveness, and professionalism of a PowerPoint presentation. Audio elements such as background music or sound clips can also add a layer of interest and help to convey tone and emotion. The use of videos can make the content more engaging, more memorable, and more easily understood by your audience. Visual aids such as videos can help to break up text-heavy slides and provide visual cues that reinforce key points and concepts. Both audio and video elements added to slides can assist with information retention and recollection.

In these lessons, you will learn how to add and customize audio from your computer or a streaming service such as YouTube. You will also learn how to add and customize video that’s been saved to your computer, linked from YouTube, or created on your own.

What You'll Learn

Add audio to PowerPoint slides from your computer or a streaming service such as YouTube
Customize audio elements on your slides
Add video to slides that is saved on your computer, linked from YouTube, or created on your own
Customize videos on your slides
Explore sources for audio and video files

Key Takeaways

Adding audio and video elements to a PowerPoint presentation can enhance its overall impact, effectiveness, and professionalism.
Audio elements such as background music or sound clips can add interest and help convey tone and emotion.
Videos can make content more engaging, more memorable, and more easily understood, and help break up text-heavy slides with visual cues that reinforce key points.
Both audio and video elements added to slides can assist with information retention and recollection.
Audio and video can be sourced from your computer or a streaming service such as YouTube, and video can also be created on your own.

Frequently Asked Questions

What will I learn in this course?

You will learn how to add and customize audio from your computer or a streaming service such as YouTube, and how to add and customize video that has been saved to your computer, linked from YouTube, or created on your own.

What topics do the lessons cover?

The lessons cover Adding Audio to Slides, Customizing Audio, Adding Video to Slides, and Customizing Videos.

Why add audio and video to a PowerPoint presentation?

Audio and video elements can enhance the impact, effectiveness, and professionalism of a presentation, add interest, convey tone and emotion, make content more engaging and memorable, break up text-heavy slides, and assist with information retention and recollection.

What skills are associated with this course?

Associated skills include Microsoft PowerPoint, Adobe Presenter, PowerPoint Animation, Presentation Software, Video Editing Software, and Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) - PowerPoint.