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Formatting the Appearance of the Video
Much like pictures, PowerPoint allows you to format the appearance of the video by applying a video style, adding a border, changing the shape, applying effects such as 3-D rotation, making image corrections, and adjusting the color. You can also add a poster frame, which is the placeholder image that your audience will see before the video starts playing. The poster frame is often just a frame taken from the video itself, but you can also use a different image if you prefer.
To Create a Poster Frame:
- Select the video.
- Start playing the video. When you see the frame that you want to use, click the Play/Pause button to pause it.
- From the Format tab, click the Poster Frame command. A drop-down menu will appear.
- Select Current Frame.
Adding a poster frame
- The current frame will become the poster frame.
The new poster frame
If you would prefer to use a picture from your computer, you can select Image from file from the menu.
To Apply a Video Style:
- Select the video. The Format tab will appear.
- Select the Format tab.
- In the Video Styles group, click the More drop-down arrow to display all the video styles.
Viewing all of the available styles
- Select the desired style.
Selecting a Video Style
- The new style will be applied to the video.
The updated video
For information on corrections, color adjustments, borders, shapes and effects, check out our lesson on Formatting Pictures.