It is a great way to make your presentation more attractive for audiences if you can insert or embed a video into your PPT. However, you may receive a ' PowerPoint cannot insert a video from the selected file' error message when you try to insert an video or movie in PowerPoint 2016, 2013, 2010, 2007, 2003 or the lower version. This issue occurs mainly because the format of the video that you want to insert is not friendly for PPT. But what's the best video format for PowerPoint and how to convert a video to the format that can be embedded in PowerPoint? Keep on reading and this article will tell you.

You May Like: • • • Part 1:Best Video Formats for PowerPoint The best video formats for PPT can be varied depending on what version of PowerPoint and what computer system you are using. Here is the details: 1. Best Video Format for PowerPoint 2013 or Later in Windows In PowerPoint 2013 or later, you can add videos in formats of ASF, AVI, MP4, M4V, MOV, MPG, MPEG, SWF, and WMV.

However, if your computer doesn't install according video and audio codec, the video embed may cannot playback. For the best video playback experience, • If you are using a Windows 8 or Windows 10 computer, we recommend you to add.mp4 videos encoded with H.264 video and AAC audio to PowerPoint 2013 or later; • If you a Windows 7 or Windows Vista or Windows XP computer, we strongly recommend you to insert WMV or MPEG-1 videos. Best Video Format for PowerPoint 2010 in Windows Video formats that work with PowerPoint 2010 in Windows include ASF, AVI, MPG, MPEG, SWF and WMV. Also, for the best playback experience, you'd better insert an video in WMV or MPEG-1 format to PowerPoint 2010.

Edit Article How to Add a Video to Powerpoint on a Mac. In this Article: Import a Video from a File into PowerPoint Import a Video from the Movies Folder, iMovie or iTunes Embed a Hyperlink to a Video Stream on the Web Edit the Playback Settings of a Video File in Mac Community Q&A Video clips saved to a computer hard drive or streamed over the Internet can easily be imported into a Microsoft.

Best Video Format for PowerPoint 2007 in Windows Video formats that work with PowerPoint 2007 in Windows include ASF, AVI, MPG, MPEG and WMV. That's why you can't play MP4 in PowerPoint 2007/2003/2002/2000/97/95. Best Video Format for PowerPoint 2011/2016 on Mac Video formats that work with PowerPoint 2011 include MPEG4, MPG, AVI, MOV, QT, and SWF. Since whether you are using OS X 10.9 Mavericks, 10.8 Mountain Lion, 10.7 Lion or 10.6 Snow Leopard, MP4 is the native playback format, so MP4 is granted the best video format for PowerPoint 2011 and the future PowerPoint 2016.

Summary: Is there a format that works both on Windows and Mac? From the list above, you'll find that the MPG (MPEG-1) video is compatible with PPT both on PC and Mac. Part 2: How to Convert Video to Embed in PowerPoint on Windows/Mac To embed video into PowerPoint without any trouble, you can convert videos to MPEG-1. Can help you have this job done. As a processional video converter, FonePaw video Converter can convert your videos to PowerPoint compatible formats like MP4, SWF, WMV, AVI, ASF, and MPG (MPEG-1). Besides converting videos to PowerPoint, this software also helps to convert other video and audio formats, such as and converting M4A to MP3.

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Now, download FonePaw Video Converter Ultimate and run it. Add source video to the program Click 'Add File(s)' button to upload the video file you want to embed to PowerPoint to the program.

You can upload them in batch. Set PPT supported video format Click the drop-down button on the right side of the 'Profile' button to select PowerPoint supported 'MPEG-1 Video (*.mpg)' as output format from 'PowerPoint' category.

You can also check part 1 again and choose other PPT supported video formats that in line with your computer and powerpoint version. Convert video to PPT format Click 'Convert' button to finish converting video to PowerPoint MPEG-1 or WMV or MP4. Insert and Play MP4 in PowerPoint After the conversion, simply click 'Open Folder' to get the converted video. Then open PowerPoint and insert the video to your powerpoint Besides being a PowerPoint Video Converter, FonePaw Video Converter Ultimate is also an, iPad Video Converter and Android Video Converter. Thereby, don't hesitate to download it to solve all your video and audio format issues.

Part 3: Powerpoint Cannot Play Media, What to Do? Some users reported that after sending out the presentation, the recipients can not play the video/audio embeded. This is probably caused by a codec problem - the media file on the presentation is based on a codec that is unavailable on the recepients' computer. To solve the unavailable codec problem on powerpoint 2016/2013/2010: • Select Info on the File tab; • If the media inserted might have compatibility issues when played on another device, the Optimize Compatibility option will pop up. • Click Optimize Compatibility and the PowerPoint will begin to improve the media file. Note: • Embedded subtitles and alternate audio tracks will be lost in this optimization process.