Okay guys this is really exciting! Canva's just launched their own screen recording tool
so that you can record and share your screen directly from Canva.
This is perfect for teachers who still record and share online tutorials with their students,
for people who want to pre-record a webinar or for people like me who want to record
and share regular video tutorials. And the best news of all is that it is 100% FREE!
Hi guys and welcome back to my channel. If we've not met before I'm Nicky Pasquier I'm a
Canva Certified Creative and Canva Creator. So if you want to learn how to use Canva to successfully
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I publish a new video. Right so in this video I'm going to show you how to find your screen recorder
and how to set it up. There are four ways you can use your screen recorder and I'm going to walk
you quickly through each one. But before we get started some of you may be thinking at this point,
"Well I know how to record my screen in Canva because there's the Present and Record feature.
So why do I need to use the screen recorder?" You would be absolutely right in thinking that
because there is a Present and Record feature in Canva but that just limits you to recording
over a template in Canva, it doesn't allow you to share your entire screen. So that's the big
difference. And now if you follow me over to my Canva desktop I can show you the screen recorder
At the time of recording this video to access the screen recording feature
you'll need to open up a template and it doesn't matter what type it is. But for the sake of this
tutorial I'm going to open up this lovely presentation template that I've been using
and that will bring it up onto my desktop. There are two ways you can access this screen
recording tool so go to the left hand side toolbar and you can find it either
under the video tab. And to start using the screen recording tool you will click on Record Yourself.
Or you can find it under the Uploads tab, and I'm going to use this method. And you'll see why
very shortly so stay watching. Underneath the Upload Media tab you'll find Record Yourself so
I'm going to click on that. And now you can see the screen recording tool, "Hi guys!"
Right I'm going to walk you through the tools available to you. So if you go to the top right
hand corner of your screen you'll see three icons: one is a little mic icon so if you click
on that you'll see various options to connect your microphone. So I'm going to go ahead and select my
Røde microphone so that's what I want to use. That's done. The next icon along is a camera
so you'll be able to use whatever camera you're using. I only have one camera which is my Facetime
HD camera so that's already selected. And the next icon along those are your screen sharing options.
So the first way you can use your screen sharing tool is to select Camera Only and this means
that you won't be sharing your screen as such, you'll just be recording yourself.
So all you need to do is make sure that the Camera Only icon is selected, then you go
down to the bottom underneath where you see a screen of yourself and you click on Record.
And you have a really handy countdown timer and now I can see I'm recording myself. The area that
I'm recording is surrounded by a red frame. Once I'm done I have three options: I can just delete
it if I'm not happy with it at all; I can pause it so I can take a breather or have a sip of coffee,
or I can finish it completely by clicking on the Done icon. Now to go back into Canva I
will need to click on Save and Exit in the very top right hand corner of my screen.
And there is the recording of myself. I can now choose to enlarge the recording
over the top of my template, I can crop the video frame by just pulling on these sidebars
and I can also trim the video in the usual way by clicking on the scissors icon.
So this would be the perfect way to record a quick opener
for a presentation for example. I'm just going to delete that go back into the recording studio.
And now I'm going to show you the second way that you can use the screen recording tool.
So go back up to the top right hand corner of your screen and click on Screen Share.
Just to be clear this will allow you to record your entire laptop screen so whatever you have
on your laptop you can record and share using this tool. So what you'll need to do is click on the
screenshot underneath and then click on Share. And you have this really bizarre sort of Alice
in Wonderland sort of screen in front of you which shows you recording yourself recording yourself
recording yourself and it will go on forever! But don't worry because this will disappear once you
start sharing your screen. So the important step now to take is to hit Record which is underneath
that weird screen. So I'm just going to do that. And I have the handy countdown timer okay and
now I can click on anything that's open up on my desktop to start recording it. So for instance I
can share and record my emails if I wanted to, I can also share and record my Canva Creator tab.
You can have as many windows open as you like so you can have a split window
and you can open up another window by the side of it. Or you can open up a PDF document for instance
and go through that and record it at the same time. So really recording and sharing your entire
screen gives you a lot of options. When you've finished go back into the screen recording tab
in Canva and as before you have three options at the bottom. You can simply delete this recording
if you're not happy with it and start again; you can pause it or you can click on Done to
finish the recording, and that's what I'm going to do. Don't forget if you want to
keep your recording and go back into Canva you'll need to click on Save and Exit in the
very top right hand corner of your screen. And there is the finished recording of my screen
and myself. One thing to point out is that both of these recordings are independent of each other
so you can move one around, you can crop the screen recording by pulling on the sidebars
or you can reduce it in size in the usual way. You can also move yourself around the screen if
you're not happy with the position so I can place myself in the top left hand corner of my screen
or I can pop it right down the bottom right hand corner, which is actually my preference. Now for
the third way to use the screen recording tool, I'm just going to delete this from my template
I'm going to go back into Record Yourself, click on Share Screen again and I have the option to
share just a Window. And that's pretty self-explanatory because whatever window
you have open on your laptop you can then share it by selecting it
and then clicking on Share. So for instance you can go ahead and share a presentation or a PDF.
So let's just assume I want to share and record this PDF I'm going to select it and click on Share
and I can go ahead now and share and record this presentation. However do not forget to take this
one important step. You may think that by sharing your screen you're actually
recording it but you're not. You need to go back into Canva and you need to press Record.
And that's really really important it's something I forgot so many times when I was testing this
out. So you need to press Record, you get your usual countdown timer and then click back into
the presentation that you wanted to share. And this option would be absolutely ideal for teachers
for tutors who are still recording and sharing lessons online and also for people who want to
pre-record webinars for example, this option would be absolutely ideal. So let me just minimise that
go back into Canva. And again once you're finished you have three options
(and this screen is stuck!) you can delete the recording. you can pause it or you can click on
Done to finish it, and that's what I'm going to do, click on Done and then click on Save and Exit to
go back into Canva. So there's my recording on my screen and again you can go ahead and
you can move the recording around your screen and you can move your own self-recording around
if you wanted to place it in a different position. So you're free to go ahead and edit it how you
would like. So I'm going to delete this again I'm going to go back into the screen recording tool
I'm going to click on Screen Share again and the final option is to share just one tab that's open
on your laptop. And I have three chrome tabs open at the minute: I've got my email tab which I'm not
going to share; I also have a tab open for my Canva Creator page. So I'm going to select it
and then click on Share. And this is my Canva Creator page. Now again you may be tempted to
think that you're actually recording this in Canva but you're not, you've just opened the screen.
So what you'll need to do is you need to use this really handy little toolbar
right at the top to go back into Canva and click on that all important Record button.
So there's my countdown and now I can go back into the tab that I wanted to share and
record it. To stop sharing your screen of course you can click on Stop Sharing,
go back into your Canva tab and that has actually stopped the recording. So
you can now either delete it if you're not happy with it or you can Save and Exit it.
Incidentally if you don't like the recording of yourself which happens to me a lot of the
time you can just delete it from your screen by clicking it with your cursor and hitting delete
and then deleting the little photo frame as well so you just have the recording of your screen
left. So that's it guys, don't forget that the screen recording tool has only just been
launched so it is very much brand new and I'm sure along the way Canva will be making some tweaks.
If you really want to learn how to use the screen recording tool the best thing to do is just
open it up and have a go and just play around and see what it does. Do let me know if you have
any comments about the screen recording tool, just drop them in the comments box below and I can then
pass them back to Canva because I'm sure they'd be really interested to know what you think about it.
At the start of this tutorial I mentioned about the Present and Record tool
so you may want to check it out by clicking on this link here. And for everything else
related to Canva you can dive into my Canva playlist and I will leave a link right here.
Have fun in the meantime thank you so much for watching and I will see you next time.