Similar to Shape Styles that you apply to shapes, PowerPoint
provides you with Video Styles for your inserted video
clips. These pre-built Video Styles add edges, shapes, and effects to videos, and apply with just a single click. Your videos no longer need to be
rectangular. Some of the Video Styles change the video clip so that it plays within an oval or a rounded rectangle. Video Styles also transform the
look of your inserted videos by applying borders, 3-D effects, shadows, frames, etc. around your video clip. Follow these steps to apply Video Styles
to a selected video clip in PowerPoint 2013:
- Open your presentation, and navigate to the required slide where you have already
inserted a video clip. Just select or double-click the video clip to bring
up the two Video Tools tabs in the Ribbon. These two tabs are
Format and Playback. Click the Format tab to activate it, as shown in Figure 1
(highlighted in red).
Figure 1: Video Tools Format tab of the Ribbon
- When you insert a video on your slide, it may display a black rectangle on the slide (see Figure 1, above). If your video clip does
not show a black rectangle, then directly proceed to Step 3.
If you see the black rectangle in place of the video clip, then you will not see any
live preview of the video styles you choose. This is because you see a
black rectangle instead of a frame associated with the video clip. To make sure you see a video frame during live preview, add a
Poster Frame to your video clip. That way you will see a
video frame in the place of black rectangle, as shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2: Video clip with a poster frame added
- Once you have made the video frame visible, select the Video Tools Format tab, and locate the Video Styles
group. Then click the More button (the down-arrow highlighted in red within Figure 3).
Figure 3: More button within the Video Styles group
- This brings up the Video Styles drop-down gallery that you can see in Figure 4. This gallery displays a
collection of pre-built Video Styles that are ready to use.
Figure 4: Video Styles drop-down gallery
Note: If you have added a
Poster Frame to
your inserted video clip, just hover the cursor over any of the style previews within the
Video Styles drop-down gallery. Also,
place your video clip in an area that is not covered by the
Video Styles drop-down gallery so that you can see the
live preview. As you move over different previews, the selected video
clip shows a live preview of the style applied.
- Click on any of the preview thumbnails within the Video Styles drop-down gallery to apply the style to the selected video clip.
- Figure 5 shows the selected video with a Video Style applied (compare with Figure 2).
Figure 5: Video Style applied to the video
- Click on the Slide Area away from the video to deselect it. Play your
video clip to see the difference.
- Make sure you save your presentation.
See Also:
Video Styles in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows
Movie Styles in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac
Video Styles in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows
