How To Embed A Youtube Video In Powerpoint 2008 For Mac

This tutorial describes how to insert YouTube video and other videos into your PowerPoint Presentations on Mac and PC. PowerPoint for Windows and PowerPoint for the Mac support different video formats. As long as you can choose the suitable video types for your PPT, you can insert YouTube videos to your PowerPoint presentations on both Mac and PC.

For Mac (Powerpoint 2008) users: Download the YouTube video using Safari download feature (tutorial); Convert the video (.flv format) to mac-. In PowerPoint for Microsoft 365 for Mac or PowerPoint 2019 for Mac, you can insert an online video from YouTube or Vimeo on a slide. In PowerPoint for Microsoft 365 for Mac, you can also insert an online video from Microsoft Stream, a video service for enterprises—people in an organization can upload, view, and share videos with one another.This feature requires PowerPoint.

In order to put a YouTube video into a PowerPoint Presentation, basically you will need to:
1. Download the video from YouTube
2. Import the movie into PowerPoint

Before you can download a YouTube video, you must install a capture/converter program. Here we recommend DVD to iPad Converter for Mac by Socusoft. It is an all-in-one video audio converter for media players such as iPad, iPhone, iPod, Blackberry, PSP, mobile, etc.

Step 1. Run DVD to iPad Converter for Mac.
Step 2. Click “YouTube” icon from the upper right hand corner, see bellow figure:

Select the Guest operating system “Apple Mac OS X” and the version “10.15” then click next. Type a name for the Virtual Machine, to be known for you, type macOS Catalina on AMD. Then specify the location where you want to store macOS Catalina and click next. Due to VMware's graphics acceleration not being compatible with macOS, you will NOT have any graphics acceleration in your virtual machine. Things like the Launchpad will be extremely laggy, the Dock will be opaque and the virtual machine will not have multiple monitor support. Apple's online services (App Store, iCloud, iMessage, FaceTime. MacOS Catalina on VMware on AMD Systems. If you’re a Windows user who is interested in installing macOS on Windows doesn’t matter whether VMware or VirtualBox, you can probably do so. Reaching til this post, I’d definitely bet you’ve searched, followed and attempt to install macOS Catalina on Windows in different ways. VMDK (Virtual Machine Disk) is a file format that describes containers for virtual hard disk drives to be used in virtual machines like VMware Workstation or VirtualBox. The macOS Catalina’s dmg file will be released as a free update later this year, but for now, you can use the created macOS Catalina virtual image to install macOS Catalina. To reconfigure the settings of the created Virtual Machine, open the location where the created VM is saved. Find there a file which has the vmx extension with it, right-click and open it with the Notepad. Open the Configuration file with Notepad. Copy the below code and paste it inside the VMX file. Smc.version = “0” cpuid.0.eax = “0000.

Step 3. Open YouTube website on browser, choose and play a video, here we pick up Dennis Rodman Emotional Hall of Fame Speech from URL:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQQu-JWzBug&feature=topvideos_sports

Step 4. Copy and paste the above URL from your browser address bar to the “Video Link” field of the YouTube Downloader within DVD to iPad Converter for Mac, click “Download” button on the lower right hand corner.

Step 5. Run PowerPoint for Mac.
In PowerPoint 2008, turn on the Movie toolbar by using the VIEW menu. From the VIEW menu choose the submenu TOOLBARS and then MOVIE.
The first button on the toolbar is INSERT MOVIE. Click it.
Select the movie in the dialog box, then click the CHOOSE button.

Step 6. Preview and play the downloaded Youtube Video on your PowerPoint.

Please note:
1． If you are using the windows version of PowerPoint on a PC, click on the Insert menu and choose Movie to import the downloaded youtube video to play in PowerPoint.
2． PowerPoint for Windows PC support many video formats. However PowerPoint for the Mac supports mainly AVI, MOV, MP4, MPG. When you download a YouTube video to your Mac, you may need to convert the Youtube video to above formats.
3． DVD to iPad Converter for Mac from Socusoft can convert and save videos directly from Youtube. You do not need to convert the downloaded YouTube videos for PowerPoint for Mac. This powerful built-in YouTube downloader can download Youtube videos and save them directly as MP4, FLV, 3GP, HD MP4 on your Mac. In this case, we leave the video to the default MP4 which works with PowerPoint for Mac or Windows.