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If you're looking to shorten a YouTube video without editing software, you've come to the right place. This article will guide you through the process of trimming YouTube videos in Microsoft PowerPoint. It's a simple and fast way to trim videos from the popular website and offers a convenient shortcut when adding YouTube videos to your PowerPoint presentations. Below you'll find all the steps for trimming YouTube videos using Microsoft PowerPoint.
Steps
Trim videos with an internet connection
Find your desired video and click "Share". The "Share" option is represented by an arrow icon located below the YouTube video, to the right of the "like" and "dislike" icons.
- No matter where you find the YouTube video you want to edit, open it and follow the on-screen instructions on your computer, not on a mobile device.
Click on "Embed". This is the far-left option with the greater-than and less-than icons pointing in opposite directions.
Copy the entire HTML content. When you click on "Embed", you will see an HTML content box. Copy the entire content into your device’s clipboard.
- Remember to copy the HTML content, not the YouTube video URL.
Open Microsoft PowerPoint and click on the "Insert" tab. This is the third option from the left, right next to the "Home" tab.
- The order of tabs on the toolbar may vary depending on the version of Microsoft PowerPoint.
Click on "Video" and choose "Online Video". Find the "Video" tab at the end of the "Insert" toolbar. Click on it and select "Online Video" from the dropdown menu.
Paste the HTML code in the "From a Video Embed Code" field. PowerPoint offers two ways to insert videos from the web. You can search directly on YouTube using the "Search YouTube" field, but we prefer to embed the copied HTML code. Paste it into the field below, but don’t press "Enter" yet.
- If you want to search for videos within PowerPoint, enter the video title or related keywords in the search bar. You can also use this field to find other necessary videos for your presentation.
Identify the start and end points. You might already know the exact time markers, but if not, use the slider on the YouTube video timeline to define the start and end points of the video.
Edit the HTML code with the format end=__&start=__. Enter these characters immediately after the URL and at the beginning of the HTML code. Insert the desired values after "end" and "start".
- The HTML code only accepts positive integers and calculates the video duration in seconds. For example, to start the video at 0:20 and end it at 6:00, input "end=20&start=360".
- Make sure to enter the content within the quotation marks of the URL.
Press "Enter" on your keyboard. The video will be added to your presentation with the selected time range.
- This is the easiest way to trim a video for your PowerPoint presentation, but it doesn't allow you to save the edited video. To do that, you'll need to follow the steps for trimming videos without an internet connection.
Trim videos without an internet connection
Open a slide in PowerPoint. Make sure it's the slide where you want to insert the YouTube video.
Open the "Insert" tab and click on "Screen Recording" (Record Screen). This is the option on the far right, represented by an icon of a box with a small camera. The computer will display an interface that allows you to record the screen.
- The order of the icons may vary depending on the version of Microsoft PowerPoint you are using.
Open the desired YouTube video and click on "Select Area" in the control menu of the interface. The computer will show a small crosshair cursor. Click and drag to create a box around the video.
- PowerPoint will record the content within the box, so ensure it fits perfectly around the video.
- PowerPoint automatically records the sound from the screen and the cursor if it appears within the recording area. To adjust these settings, simply uncheck them in the recording interface's control panel.
Identify the starting point. Prepare to play the video from the exact moment you want. If you want to start the video from the beginning, just let it play as normal.
Click on "Record". Once you've chosen the starting point, click "Record" and begin playing the video.
- You can click "Pause" at any time to temporarily stop the screen recording. Don’t forget to pause the YouTube video, or it might skip to a different time when you resume the recording.
Click "Stop" when the video reaches the point you want to end. This is the action to stop the recording.
Save the PowerPoint content. Click on 'File' and select 'Save' to store your PowerPoint presentation. The recorded content will be added to the selected slide.
- You can save the video separately by opening PowerPoint in File Explorer, changing the file extension from '.pptx' to '.zip', and double-clicking the renamed file. This action will open a new File Explorer window containing all the presentation contents. The edited video will be found in the 'media' folder.
Advice
- PowerPoint versions 2016 and earlier offer a code option to select the start and end points for the video.
