Inserting video clips into PowerPoint is usually easy. Also, PowerPoint allows ample control over how you want the video to play while in slide show mode. However, video in itself comes from disparate sources: from camcorders to stock footage libraries and in-house rendered content to downloads from the Internet. An amazing number of video formats actually are bestowed with an even more amazing number of codecs. And if you don’t know what this format and codec thing means, you have come to the right place!

