From your Google photos

Google have not made it straightforward to insert your videos into a Google slides presentation, follow these steps:

  1. Add a new slide to your presentation
  2. Click on the slide and click ‘insert’ and ‘video’
  3. Now you will see the YouTube logo
  4. Click on the Google Drive tab, however this just shows your files on Google drive and not any photos/videos stored in Google photos
  5. Go to Google photos and find your videos
  6. Select the ones required by clicking the tick box on each video
  7. Now click the 3 dots on the top right and click ‘download’
  8. This creates a zipped file in your downloads folder
  9. Double click on this folder then click ‘extract all’, you can specify a folder in a new location and give it a meaningful name
  10. Now go to Google Drive, click on ‘new’ and ‘folder upload’
  11. Navigate to the folder you just created and click ‘upload’
  12. Once uploaded your videos will appear on Google Drive
  13. Now if you refresh your insert video screen on the presentation you will be able to select your video
  14. Click insert and the video will be inserted into your slide