New Ways to Video in G Slides!

By Anonymous -

Up until recently, YouTube was the only option when inserting video files into a Google Slides presentation. This caused many teachers headaches due to wanting to use their own videos in slide show, but not wanting to go through the process of uploading those to YouTube. Now, Google has made it possible to pull videos right from your Google Drive into your slide show!

There are four new options for using video, that give it more customization than ever before.

Embed Drive Videos in Slides


Just like before, choose Insert  > Video > and select the Google Drive option. Just watch out for adjusting your sharing permissions, like any other file in Google Drive, you need to set it so that anyone viewing the slides would have access, if necessary. 


Start/Stop Times

If you only want to share part of the video, the option to choose start and stop times is available when you click on the options menu for any inserted video file. 

Auto-Play Videos

Similarly as above, if a video should start right when the slide is presented, just click on the Autoplay when presenting option in the same menu. 

Mute a Video

Again, just like above, if you want to mute the video so that only the image is playing, click that option in the Video Option menu. This way, the students or teacher can narrate the video so that specific content can be the focus. 

For more specific details, check out the Insert or delete images or videos help topic in the Doc Editors  Help article. 


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