 If you are delivering a PowerPoint presentation, you can now leave inside your PowerPoint. In this video, I will show you how to create cool effects like this and highlight four challenges you need to overcome when using this feature. Let's get started. I have a PowerPoint presentation here. The first thing you will notice is that I have designed this presentation with empty space on one side. This is where I will place my camera view to get started. Click on insert and select cameo. Click on the icon. This will place a camera object into your presentation. You can drag it just like any other object and place it wherever you want in the presentation. We can resize the object to see the camera view. Click this video icon which is currently off and you have your webcam inside the presentation. Let me rearrange it. Make it a little bigger and sure it is perfectly centered and that's it. Click on the camera format option and we can choose different types of formats. I like the first one. There are additional options under camera shape, camera border and camera effects. You can play with this effects to your heart's content. PowerPoint treats the cameo object just like any other object. This means you can apply transitions, animations and any other effects that you generally use in PowerPoint. For example, to create the cool morph effect that I used in the intro, all I have to do is select transition, make sure I'm on the first slide and choose morph. Next, duplicate the slide by right clicking and duplicate slide. Go to the second slide and move the objects around. So let me move the camera to the right, the text to the left, adjust all the objects and that's it. To play this presentation, go to the first slide and present. When I go to the next slide, it will apply the morph effect like this. If you want the camera view on the other slides, all we have to do is select the object, press Ctrl C, go to the next slide, press Ctrl V. Depending on the availability of the space on each slide, we may have to resize the camera view like this. As I mentioned earlier, PowerPoint treats this like any other object. Let's say I want to apply an animation for this particular camera view, select animation and choose your animation type. Let's say fly in. When I play the slide, this is how it will appear to the audience. You can copy paste the camera view to any slide that you want and your presentation is done. The cameo feature is amazing, but it has some challenges. The first challenge is related to the limitation within Windows itself. In Windows, only one application can access your camera. For example, let's say we are in a Zoom meeting. Let me start a new meeting in Zoom. I'm now in a Zoom meeting with my video on. Let's go to our presentation and immediately we get an error indicating that the camera is in use by another app. I cannot switch on the camera in PowerPoint anymore. If I switch off my video in Zoom, then switch to PowerPoint and PowerPoint is now able to show me my camera view. To use this feature effectively, make sure that your video is switched on only in one application at a time. The second issue that you need to be aware about is related to the frame rates. What do I mean by frame rates? When you are in an online meeting with your video on, meeting software such as Zoom will prioritize frame rates so that your video appears smooth. On the other hand, when you do screen sharing, Zoom will automatically drop the frame rates to ensure that the audience can read what is on the screen, but this impacts your video quality. To mitigate this, what you can do when you're presenting with cameo is first make sure that your video is switched off, go to your presentation and show your video is switched on and I like to keep my PowerPoint in the presentation mode before I start screen sharing. I do that by clicking here. Now I can go to Zoom, click on share screen, choose the window that we want to share. In our case, that's a PowerPoint right over here. If the presentation has audio, click on share sound, but most importantly, make sure you click on optimize for video clip, then click share. Now you're presenting to the audience, your PowerPoint along with your camera. How cool is that? The third point that you have to keep in mind is that whenever you want to use this camera object in different slides, you have to copy and paste them in each slide and resize them and set them in the right place. This can be time consuming, but if you really want to create engaging content, it is well worth the trouble. Once you have set up the camera on one slide, it is simply a matter of copy with control C. Go to the slide where you want to insert it and press control V, perhaps resize it a bit and move it around and do this for each and every slide. And the fourth item that you need to keep in mind is that currently PowerPoint only supports USB cameras. If I click on camera format and choose this drop down under preview, it will only show me cameras that plug in directly into your computer. As of now, it doesn't support virtual cameras like OBS. So that is Microsoft Cameo. Have fun with your next presentation.