Creating a Video Style Presentation with Google Slides

 

Google Slides can be used for way more than just presentations. It can be a welcome bellringer screen, a powerful graphics tool, a collaboration resource, a drag and drop question creator, a video playlist, a content organizer, and more. In this tutorial, we are going to use Google Slides to create a video style presentation that uses pictures and music, and can be set to play automatically.

Step 1) Create your title slide. 
Step 2) Insert pictures on each slide. 
Step 3) Insert your audio on the first slide. Go to Insert > Audio. 

            

If you are looking for some music to use, here is a folder 
with some royalty free music you can use.

Step 4) Click on the audio icon, and click "Format Option." You'll most likely want to:

    • Change Start Playing option to Automatically
    • Check to Loop Audio so the music doesn't end before the pictures end
    • Uncheck Stop on slide change so the audio continues to play

Step 5) To present the SlideShow as a Video, you need to Publish it. Go to File > Publish to the web.


Step 6) Change your Publish to the web settings, and click Publish.

    • Choose the Auto-advance slides setting (1, 2, 3, 5, 10, 15, 30, or 60 seconds)   
    • Decide whether or not you want to "Start slideshow as soon as the player loads"
    • Decide if you want to "Restart the slideshow after the last slide"

Step 7) Once you have published, copy the link. This is the link you will use to present your video.


Step 8) Now that you have your link, paste it in your web browser to begin the "show." Not ready to present? Return to  File > Publish to the web when you are to access your link again.

Pro tip: If one of the Auto-advance slides settings doesn't meet your needs
 (1, 2, 3, 5, 10, 15, 30, or 60 seconds), change number at the end of the link. 
The delayms=3000 represents 3 seconds (3000 milliseconds). 
Multiply the number of seconds you want by 1000. 
Or if you are creating a stop motion video, change it 250 or 500. 


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