PowerPoint 2013: Shining a spotlight on video and audio

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You want to say something, but your bullet points and graphics aren’t quite cutting it? Sometimes the best way to make your point is with video or audio clips. PowerPoint 2013 has a bunch of improvements that make video and audio easier to include in your presentation. In this blog post, we’ll discuss how we’ve brought multimedia to the PowerPoint Web App, as well as how we’ve made multimedia better in PowerPoint 2013.

You asked for it, and we delivered. Many of you loved our first version of the PowerPoint Web App, but you wanted to see and hear the video and audio in your presentations. We’re happy to tell you that the PowerPoint Web App now supports multimedia playback!

If you’re using an HTML5-capable browser or have the Microsoft Silverlight plug-in installed, then you can now view your presentation’s multimedia in the PowerPoint Web App. The Web App also now supports playback of online Flash videos (e.g. YouTube) that you’ve inserted in PowerPoint 2010 or 2013. Want to see all this in action? Check it out in the embedded presentation below!

We didn’t keep the multimedia love to just the PowerPoint Web App. We also gave PowerPoint 2013 a major upgrade to its multimedia infrastructure. What does that mean for you?

Out-of-box playback support for the ubiquitous H.264 video and AAC audio codec standards Older versions of PowerPoint previously required third-party installs to play these back. Better, smoother playback performance of your high definition videos in slide show Higher quality output when we optimize or compress your videos

We’ve also made it easier to find and insert online videos with a new Insert Online Video experience. If you have your video stored on SkyDrive or Facebook, you can insert them directly from PowerPoint. If you don’t have a video already, you can search through other online videos with Bing Video Search or YouTube:

Thanks for reading, I hope you enjoy using video and audio in your next big presentation.

--James Yamat, Program Manager, PowerPoint Team

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Creative Spotlight: Ryan Boyle

Ryan Boyle caught our eye with his Adobe Ideas-created and Photoshop Touch-edited artwork. Instantly, we knew his comic book-like creations would make a great feature as our Adobe Touch Apps Twitter background. Following a Twitter correspondence with the illustrator, we were able to ask a few questions about his ideal travel destination and how the Adobe Touch Apps have made transitioning between iPad and desktop software virtually seamless. Check out what he had to say, along with his Adobe Touch Apps work, currently being featured as our Twitter background, below.

Creative Layer: How have the Adobe Touch Apps changed your creative workflow?

Ryan Boyle:  It’s definitely a lot easier to carry an iPad or other tablet device around for sketching and brainstorming rather than my laptop and Wacom. What’s especially nice about Adobe Ideas is the ability to take the concept from the iPad into Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop to prep for production without having to scan the image in or lose any quality.

How much of a difference has direct touch input made to your creations?

I can create something wherever the idea hits me. Before, I would have to wait until I got home to sketch out a concept and hope that I hadn’t forgotten what was brilliant about it.

Of the different Touch Apps, which is most instrumental to your creative process and why?

I do a lot of sketching so Adobe Ideas is my favorite. I particularly love its vector capabilities and that I can scale my sketches and designs up as large as I want without losing quality.

If you had the opportunity to travel to anywhere in the world with your Touch Apps, where would it be and why?

Italy, for sure. With all of the amazing art and architecture, where else could you find so much inspiration?

What are the top three sources you look to for inspiration?

I would say my top three inspirational web sites are FFFound.com, Dribbble.com and Behance.net.

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Solution Spotlight: A look inside Integrated Content Review

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