Include a YouTube Flash video in your presentation

Problem

You'd like to include a YouTube video in your presentation but don't know where to start.

Solution

We bring you not one but two, two, two! two-torials!

Here's one from the PowerPoint Team Blog

And from PowerPoint MVP Jean-Pierre Forestier, you can read about another method right here.

Preparation

• Download and install ClipFinder
• Download and unzip/install JW FLV Media Player
• Create a folder where you'll save your presentation. We'll call this the presentation folder from here on.
• Copy the player.swf file from the unzipped JW FLV Media Player folder and paste it into the presentation folder.

Get the video from YouTube

• Go to the Youtube site and find the video you want to include. Copy the web address of the video from the browser's address bar.
  
• Open ClipFinder and click on URL Address (at the top right of the ClipFinder screen)
  
• Paste the video's web address (use Ctrl+V) into the Address of the video box, then click Download to save the video to the presentation folder.
  

Add the video to your presentation

• Open your PowerPoint presentation.
• If you use PowerPoint 2007, click the Developer tab (use Office Button | PowerPoint Options to display it if it's not already visible). If you use PowerPoint 2003 or previous, choose View | Toolbars and put a check next to VIsual Basic if there's not one already there. Then click Control Toolbox on the Visual Basic toolbar.
• Click More Controls (it's the icon with the crossed hammer and wrench with "..." below them).
• In the (long) list that appears, locate and double-click Shockwave Flash Object.
• The More Controls dialog box will disappear and you'll be returned to PowerPoint with a crosshair cursor active. Use it to draw a shape on the slide where you want the movie to appear.
• Right-click the shape you just drew and choose Properties from the pop-up menu that appears.
  
• Next to Movie, write the complete path to the presentation folder followed by player.swf followed by ?file= followed by the name of the movie you downloaded. Add no extra spaces. For example, it might look like this:
  C:\Presentations\MyYouTubeShow\player.swf?file=MyKewlMovie.flv
• Click theX in the upper right corner of the Properties window to close it.
• Press F5 to start the slide show.
• Click on the arrow to start the film.

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