How to Embed a YouTube Video in Google Slides
YouTube is the best known place to find all manner of videos. You may even have a YouTube channel where you upload your own videos. Because YouTube is a Google company, adding videos to your slides from the service is pretty straight forward.
How to Add a Video to Slides from Google Drive
Adding videos to your Google Slides presentation from Google Drive is only slightly different from adding a YouTube Video. It starts the same, but the difference is in where you find the video. You can also select Mute audio to have the audio from the slide automatically muted when it plays. In addition to these options, you also have options for Size & Rotation, Position, and Drop shadow. Use these options to adjust the appearance of the video on your slide.
How to Add Video to Google Slides from an Outside Source
If you want to add a video to Google Slides from your hard drive or from somewhere else on the web, you won’t be able to directly add it to Google Slides. You’ll have to first upload or add the file to Google Drive, and then use the steps above to add the video to your presentation.
My Drive: This is where you’ll find files that you’ve created in or uploaded to Google Drive.Shared drives: This option is for drives that are shared with other people. For example, if you have a family shared drive that a relative uploaded a video to, you’ll find it here.Shared with me: While it might seem like this is the same a shared drive, it’s not. This is where you’ll find files that belong to someone else who has shared them with you (the file only, not the whole drive).Recent: If you’ve recently opened the video that you want to embed in your Google Slides presentation, it will probably show up here.
You also cannot add video to Google Slides using a URL for a site other YouTube. If the video you want to use lives on another site, you’ll first need to get it into Google Drive (which could mean downloading it to your hard drive and then uploading it to Google Drive) before you can use it.
