Inserting Video to PowerPoint

Things you should know:
PowerPoint can only recognize video in AVI, MPEG, MWV formats and
Any movie cannot be EMBED in PowerPoint but linked to it.
Embed means that PowerPoint just ask the system to play the video from your local drive and the video is not included in the PowerPoint presentation.

1. Add AVI, MPEG, MWV video to PowerPoint
Insert-> Movies and Sounds-> Movies from file

2. Insert QuickTime Video to PowerPoint
If you want to add an quick time video, see this Solution
PowerPoint
A. Insert > object > create from file to add a QuickTime video object

B. Convert the file to WMV or AVI in QuickTime pro and use insert > movies & sounds

3. Insert Google video to PowerPoint
As Google Video grows in popularity, the number of available videos is growing exponentially. As many find out early on, you are able to download videos to your computer for watching instead of using Google's online player. The only negative is that when you download the video, it is a *.gvp file that you must Google Video Player to watch it

Then how to do it?
Download GVideoFix to convert the Google video to an avi file at
http://www.jlrconcepts.com/

Insert the AVI video to PowerPoint
PowerPoint-> Insert -> Music and Movies -> Movie from File

4. Insert Youbute video to PowerPoint
Solution 1:
Open http://vixy.net
Paste your URL, select the video format "avi""mpeg" etc. then press "start". You'll get what you need at the end.

Solution 2:
A. download the video from youtube
B. get firefox-> get video downloader-> download youtue video
C. convert youtube video to mpeg/avi/mwv with a video converter
http://www.erightsoft.net/SUPER.html
D. insert the converted video to PowerPoint
PowerPoint-> Insert Movies and sounds -> Movie from file
and then find the clip.

More PowerPoint tips
Question :Import video into editing software (adobe premiere), then export as an avi file. When I try to insert into PowerPoint, I can see the first frame, but once I push play, the video goes white. I don't know what the problem is since I've done this before and it worked fine.

Answers: Read this to learn the solution
http://www.ppt-to-dvd.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2192