Video can aid people acquire how to practise things such as use an app, navigate a process with many steps, or complete a difficult-to-describe task. When people ask how to do something, y'all can respond with a link followed by, "Watch this video. Does that respond your question?"

Sometimes, though, you want people to meet several videos in sequence. Yous tin can create a YouTube playlist, but but if all of the videos are on YouTube. Otherwise, you might gather a listing of links to videos stored on YouTube, Google Drive, and elsewhere.

Google Slides lets you show specific segments of videos, and surround the videos with boosted text or images.

Here are 4 tips to aid you work with video in Google Slides.

ane. Insert YouTube or Google Drive videos in Slides

Y'all can upload your videos to either YouTube or Google Drive, and so insert the video into Google Slides from a desktop browser. Generally, I see people upload videos intended for public sharing to YouTube. Videos intended for private use, such every bit internal employee or educational viewing, are oft stored on Google Drive.

To insert video on a slide, become to Insert > Video in the menus. You can then search for a video from YouTube, paste the URL of a video from YouTube, or navigate to and select a video file stored on Google Bulldoze.

2. Gear up your Slides to private or public

You can configure your Slides to be as public or individual every bit y'all cull. Since the early on days of Google Slides, you've always had the ability to fix access permissions to yourself, to people yous choose, to people in your system, or to anyone with the link. Select the blue "Share" button in the upper right while in Slides to adapt permissions.

3. Slides supports autoplay segments

From Google Slides in your desktop browser, you can specify a kickoff and finish time to play merely a segment of your selected video. If you do this, when you lot nowadays your slides — in a desktop browser or on mobile devices — just the segment y'all've selected plays during your presentation.

Separately, yous can select "autoplay" or "mute," as well. Every bit expected, the get-go starts the video when you switch to the slide, and the 2d turns off the sound. Autoplay works with your segment settings: When you switch to a slide with both autoplay and start and cease times, Slides volition autoplay the segment specified. If you select play after autoplay ends, the video starts at the beginning of the video. To replay your selected segment, switch to another slide, and so switch back.

4. On mobile, catechumen video to a GIF for Slides

When yous piece of work on Android or iOS, you may notice that you can't insert video into your Google Slides app. You need a full desktop browser for these functions as of late January 2018. Fortunately, video yous've added on desktop will play on mobile.

Equally an culling, you can catechumen a video into a GIF, and so insert this image in the Google Slides mobile app. The downside? You'll need to convert your video to GIF segments smaller than fifty MB and these segments volition lack sound, since GIF is an image format. However, if your video is already captioned or works without sound, this can be a viable option. (I've used GIF Maker-Editor on Android and GIF Toaster Pro on iOS to catechumen video to GIF format.) Once you accept your GIF, tap the plus ("+") in Slides, choose "From photos," and so select to insert your GIF. Ane do good of this approach is that your GIF will continually wheel, different video, which stops playback.

Your feel?

If you apply Chiliad Suite, exercise you share videos for your organization on Google Drive, YouTube, or elsewhere? What has your experience been sharing videos — and related grooming or "how to" data — with Google Slides? Let me know in the comments or on Twitter (@awolber).