Automatically pause a video at a specific spot and resume with a click - PPT 2013-2019

Can you automatically pause a video at a specific spot and then move on without restarting the video from the begining.

To do that you need to apply Bookmarks and attach a trigger to them.

Insert your video on the slide (Insert - Video - Video on my PC - Select the video - Insert).

Activate the Animation tab and click Animation Pane. PPT automatically adds a trigger allowing you to start and stop the video by clicking on it. Remove the play option by selecting it and pressing Delete.

Your animation pane should look like this:

Now add the bookmarks and triggers which will allow you to stop the video without having to click.

Click in the player control bar on the desired spot.
Under Video Tools click the Play tab, click the Add bookmark button. Repeat for the other bookmarks.

Go to the Animation tab and in the Advanced animation group click the Add Animation button, choose Pause. The video will run, select the animation by clicking on it. Click on the Trigger button and choose On bookmark and then Bookmark 1.

repeat for bookmark 2. So, add the pause and then add the trigger.

The animation pane now looks like:

Start the presentation, click on the video, it will play till it reaches the first bookmark and then stop, click again and it will play till the second bookmark and stop. Always click on the video not next to it.

What if you want the video to start automatically and stop when you reach a specific point?

Insert your video on the slide (Insert - Video - Video on my PC - Select the video - Insert).

Under Video tools, click the Play tab, click on the list arrow next to start and choose Automatically.

Select the Animation tab, click on Animation pane button. The video starts automatically (see the 0 next to the first animation item). There is a trigger that allows you to stop the video.

Now add the two bookmarks as described above.

The animation pane finally looks like:

Start your presentation, when you reach the slide with the video it plays automatically till it reaches the first bookmark and stops, click again and it continues to reach the second stop. Click again and it plays till the end. Always click on the video not next to it.