PowerPoint 2010 Loves Video More than Flash?

PowerPoint 2010 has been upgraded not only with a new browser version, but also a slew of bells and whistles have been added to the desktop version. Overview the most new and amendatory features, beyond questions, Microsoft did a lot of works in improving the video functions for PowerPoint 2010. To Flash, we cannot view even any changes happen. Does PowerPoint 2010 love video more than Flash?

For looking for the answer, let’s go to view the changes about video on PowerPoint first. I’m sure that you will be surprised at its powerful functions. Let’s take a brief overview of these features.

1. Embedding videos into PowerPoint 2010 presentation
Earlier versions of PowerPoint did not have an option to embed videos in PowerPoint presentation, they were linked. So when you move your PowerPoint with video inserted other where, it would not worked normally. Delightedly, PowerPoint 2010 solves this problem perfectly. The video can be inserted into your PowerPoint presentation completely. Now you do never worry about the problem of video playing in your presentation anywhere any more.

2. Inserting/embedding online videos in PowerPoint presentation
PowerPoint 2010 enables users to insert and embed online videos to PowerPoint presentation easily, you never need to seek and download online videos and then insert into your presentation.

Additionally, you can also embed videos from video sites like YouTube. In such case, you just need to paste the embed code directly into a textbox then the video will be embed into your presentation.

3. Formatting and editing the video
PowerPoint 2010 integrated much more powerful capabilities of video editing and formatting. Thus you never need extra editing software any more. You can trim the video, control the video playback, and schedule an animation where to start to run and some other useful video editing features.

4. Publish PowerPoint 2010 presentation to Video
Creating a video PowerPoint slideshow is an outstanding feature of PowerPoint 2010. The ability of outputting a video from PowerPoint saves a lot of money and time for the users who are seeking a PowerPoint to video converter. Just in one click, you could create a video from PowerPoint easily.

Take a full peek at these video features in PowerPoint 2010 above, the video fans would be grateful for all these features. However, for Flash fans, they would be depressed. There is no shortcut to insert their favorite Flash movies into PowerPoint 2010 presentation and no options to create Flash movie from PowerPoint 2010. Does PowerPoint 2010 have a preference to video? Maybe, LOL. Don’t worry, Flash fans, I think in near future, Microsoft will do more work to perfect their office suite. PowerPoint 2010 will add more excellent Flash features for PowerPoint users.

Flash fans, if you want to insert Flash into your PowerPoint 2010 presentation, please go to view this tutorial - How to insert Flash movie to PowerPoint. The steps to insert Flash movie to PowerPoint 2010 is similar to PowerPoint 2007.

If you want to convert your PowerPoint 2010 presentation to Flash movie, please use some PowerPoint to Flash converting tools, such as PPT2Flash.