For Beamer Lovers

Today, I want to start the first official post of my blog explaining how to put a video in your latex beamer presentation. I thought it might be useful for those who are latex lovers.

First of all, your latex compiler needs the package called “movie15” which can be downloaded by following link:

http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/movie15.zip

In .tex file, the \usepackage[3D]{movie15} should be included.

To give an example, the slide containing video can be:

\begin{frame}{Video slide}

\begin{figure}[ht]

\includemovie[poster,

text={\small(Loading Video)}, % a text before the appearance of the video

mouse, repeat,

]{11cm}{7cm}{Movies/video.mp4} %the path of the file containing the video file

\end{figure}

\end{frame}

In my case, I saw the above-mentioned .tex file needs to be compiled two times. The generated PDF file was perfectly opened and video was played using Acrobat reader.

Good luck and have fun with your beamer.