From the course: PowerPoint: Audio and Video
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Use a video as a slide background
From the course: PowerPoint: Audio and Video
Use a video as a slide background
- [Instructor] So far we've been focusing entirely on importing videos as part of the content of our slides and that's how you're going to be using videos for the great majority of the time. But there's also a workaround you can implement to use videos as the background of a slide. So instead of a static background image, like we see here, we can actually have a moving background. Again, like with any usual use of video and motion something like this should be used sparingly and only if it helps to enhance the impact of your slide and not distract or take away from the content you're trying to get across. But let's see how we do this. In this case I want the media clip to appear on the background of all of my slides so I'm going to come up to the View tab and I'll choose Slide Master and I'll scroll up here to select the very top one so that anything I change here will cascade down to all of the slide masters. Then I'll go to the Insert ribbon, choose Video, Video on My PC, and in…
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