Increase playback speed of video in PowerPoint

I'm using PowerPoint 2016. In my presentations I can include mp4 videos but I would also like to increase the speed of the playback (e.g. 16 times faster). How can this be done? I did not find any possibility to do this.

2 Answers

You can change the playback speed of a video in powerpoint, which i discovered after following this tip. Here are the steps required:

1. Enable the 'Developer' Tab in the ribbon, found under Powerpoint options > Customize Ribbon > Main Tabs.
2. In the Developer Tab in the ribbon, in the 'Controls' section, access the 'more controls' option.
3. In the More Controls popup, scroll to the bottom of the list and select 'Windows Media Player'
4. Click anywhere on your slide to create a new windows media player instance. Note: this may raise a security warning as you are activating an ActiveX control. You must enable to continue.
5. Right click on the windows media player and select 'Properties' or 'Property Sheet'
6. Click the three dots icon next to 'Custom' to launch a dialog, where you can initiate file selection or manually enter a url (alternatively, you can enter the file path or URL directly into the URL property). Note: your file or url must be a windows media playable file.
7. At the 'Custom' property, click to open windows media player options window.
8. Click the 'advanced' tab, and alter the figure in the 'Rate' field.

Voila!

The normal / default playback rate is 1.0000. Change this figure to .5000 to play the video at half speed (i.e. slower), or change it to 2.0000 for double-speed playback (i.e. faster).

Ha!

I found another way after trawling ALL day for answers. However, I'm using PwrPt 2013, so maybe it will work for you and maybe it won't.

• Open Windows Movie Maker.
• Add your video file to it.
• Under the Edit tab, set your preferred speed from dropdown menu.
• Under Home tab>> Save Movie dropdown menu>> For Computer/High Definition (whichever you prefer. Without doing this, your file won't be compatible with PwrPt)>> choose folder location and file name>> save.

The video will be converted into a suitable file format while saving the preferred speed and you can insert it into Powerpoint.

Apparently, this also works for VLC player, but haven't used it myself.