How to Embed Flash Video into PowerPoint

Want to embed flash video into your PowerPoint? Actually, Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 and 2010 includes the built-in function that lets you to embed flash SWF file to your PPT presentation easily. The below step-by-step guide will show you how to do it:

Step 1: Open your PPT presentation and go to the page which you need to embed flash video to. Open PowerPoint options and select the “Show Developer Tab in the Ribbon” option.

Step 2: Click the “Developer Tab” icon and select the “Shockwave Flash Object” from the appeared window.

Step 3: Draw a rectangle on the PPT canvas, right click on it and select the “Properties”. Then, type the location of the SWF files in the Movie Property.

PS: Here, you are able to add flash SWF files from your local computer or online SWF files directly. 

Step 4: Finally set “Playing = True”, you now successfully to embed flash video in Microsoft PowerPoint.

Apart from Microsoft PowerPoint’s built-in flash embed function, you can embed flash into your PPT presentation with the help of AST SWF Video Converter. This SWF to PPT Converter lets you convert SWF to PPT accepted AVI or WMV. Then you can easily embed flash video to PowerPoint.

Step 1: Download, install and run AST SWF Video Converter. Click “Open Local File” to import local flash file. Or click “Download From Web” to download online flash file.

Step 2: Click the “Output Format” then “Export Video Settings” to select AVI or WMV as output profile.

Step 3: Click “Start” to start converting SWF to AVI or WMV. After conversion, a dialog will pop-up to show you the output folder.

Step 4: Open your PPT and select the page which you want to insert the SWF video. Click “Insert” then “Video”, and choose “Video from File...” to insert the flash video.

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