Thanks to a LinkedIn Post of my preferred PowerPoint Subject Matter Expert Peter Claus Lambrecht I was informed that Microsoft is currently rolling out Cameo, an addition for PowerPoint to embed your video & web camera into PowerPoint slides.
I have opened immediately my PowerPoint and checked for latest updates if it has already arrived – I am not part of an Office Insider Channel (what I assumed)
![PowerPoint Cameo: how to activate in Beta Channel 1 PowerPoint without Beta Channel](https://ragnarheil.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/PowerPoint-without-Beta-Channel-1024x690.png)
So I searched for an official Microsoft instruction and tutorial how to get into the Office Insider Program and access Beta Channel. I found this website here.
It told me that in my case where I am logged in with my personal MSA Microsoft Account I should see the switch to move between different kind of Office Insiders Channels -what I don’t see!
So I open Command Prompt (in Admin Mode) and entered these lines:
C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\ClickToRun>OfficeC2RClient.exe /changesetting Channel=BetaChannel
C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\ClickToRun>OfficeC2RClient.exe /update user
After a reboot I could finally see the option to switch between different Office Insider Channels and could pick “Beta”
![PowerPoint Cameo: how to activate in Beta Channel 2 How to join Office Insider](https://ragnarheil.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/How-to-join-Office-Insider.png)
PCL (Peter Claus Lambrecht) also recommended a Blogpost from our friends at Practical365.com (Thank you, Steve Goodman!) where he learned about relevant registry key editing. They were relevant for him. He decided to change HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE instead of HKEY_CURRENT_USER.
Voilá – now Cameo is visible when clicking at “insert” in PowerPoint and my video is embedded into my slide (just one slide, not all. You need to copy each “Cameo Slide”)
![PowerPoint Cameo: how to activate in Beta Channel 3 cameo](https://ragnarheil.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/cameo.png)
![PowerPoint Cameo: how to activate in Beta Channel 4 cameo 2](https://ragnarheil.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/cameo-2-1024x504.png)
In my last screenshot, you see few options and configurations of Cameo:
- camera style: box, circle etc
- camera frame: color, thickness of line, brush style
- camera effects: shadow, mirroring, lightning effects, soft borders
- 3D rotation: coming soon
Current limitations:
- not rolled out yet for MAC Office Insider (thank you, Michael Greth!)
- not possible to work with different cams, you can only select one
- green screen not supported
- virtual cams like OBS not supported
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