Including videos in your Google Slides presentation can boost your audience’s attention and interest, especially when it provides comedic relief after a few serious slides. It’s a piece of cake to include a YouTube video in your slide, as you’ll see in the above video.However, if you’re in an organization where YouTube is blocked, as seen in some education and government organizations, adding a video isn’t as simple. Here’s a quick work-around to show you how to include any mp4 file in your Google Slides presentation.
To embed a non-YouTube video:
To embed a non-YouTube video:
- Find the mp4 file you want to include in your slide in your Google Drive.
- Take a screenshot of the video to serve as a hyperlink placeholder to your mp4 file.
- Go back to Google Slides, and find the slide you want to add the video link to.
- Insert the screenshot you just took.
- Downsize the screenshot as you see fit for your slide.
- Select the screenshot and insert the hyperlink.
- You can do this with CTRL + K (on a PC) or Command + K (on a Mac).
- Paste the shareable link of the mp4 file in Google Drive.
- Click Apply once you’ve pasted your link.
- Now, your image is hyperlinked to take the user to the video located in Drive.
- Click Insert on the menu bar.
- Select Video.
- A window will appear where you can search for a YouTube video, or you can select URL at the top of the window, and paste a URL for a specific YouTube video.
- Click Select.
- Your video is now embedded in your slide.