The Educational Technology Blog

We recently had a request from a faculty member who wanted to know how he could download a YouTube video and insert it into a PowerPoint presentation. To embed a YouTube video into PowerPoint 2007, it’s not necessary to download the video at all. You can simply link to the video’s URL and reference it as a Shockwave Flash (.swf) object in PowerPoint.To see a tutorial, watch this video:

However, if you’re set on being able to download the video first, read our previous post about how to download videos from YouTube. Once you have the video in a file format PowerPoint will accept, such as .wmv, .mpeg, or .avi, you can insert the file as a media clip into a PowerPoint slide.