Record your screen using PowerPoint
Did you know PowerPoint has a built-in function to do screen recordings?
This is a feature that's been available going all the way back to PowerPoint 2013.
You can access it under the Insert tab by coming over here to Screen Recording. When you open that
up it brings up the screen recording menu options where you can start a recording, stop a recording,
select an area of the screen that you want to record and in this case we'll just do the entire
screen, and it gives you a choice of being able to turn on and off the audio recording,
and turn on and off the pointer recording. Now let's go ahead and record something
and insert it into our PowerPoint presentation so we can see how that works.
I'm going to go ahead and start the recording by clicking this button and you'll notice that to
stop the recording you have to hit the Windows logo key plus shift plus Q. You can also come
up to the top of the screen. This window will pop up and you can select Stop there.
So let's go ahead and record and it'll start a countdown for us.
"I'm going to open up our calculator and do 1 2 3 times 4 5 6 =" and stop. That's our recording.
It automatically inserts it into our PowerPoint presentation and we can hit this play button
to see what it looks like. "I'm going to open up our calculator and do 1 2 3 times 4 5 6 ="
Now you'll notice when I have the recording selected in PowerPoint it comes up with this
Video Format tab. Here you have a bunch of editing options for your recording.
For example, I can change the brightness and contrast, I can change the color,
I can add what's called a poster frame which is just an image that comes out
at the beginning of your recording. So let's select one from our stock image list
and we'll pick this right here and insert it.
If you don't like your settings you can reset it and there's some pre-built video
styles that you can choose from where it adjusts the border, the shading, beveling,
and if you come down here you'll even have some 3D options that are kind of cool. If you don't like
those individual video styles you can always come over here and manually adjust them like change the
shape to whatever you want, adjust the border to a different color if you don't like that,
and add those 3D shadows, beveling, and other options.
There's also a crop setting here where I can come in and adjust the frame a little bit
and crop that down. Now let's play this again and see what it looks like.
"I'm going to open up our calculator and do 1 2 3 times 4 5 6 ="
There's also another tab called Playback and this controls the playback options of your recording
inside of that PowerPoint presentation. It lets you do things like trim your video
so let's say we want to get rid of the beginning
and the end where I had the recording turned off.
Hit OK. There we can also do fade in and fade out. You can adjust the volume,
you can check some boxes here to control the video, like make it loop until it stopped,
and you can even come in here and insert captions if you want. The tabs up here
for Video Format and Playback control how your recording works within a PowerPoint presentation
but let's say you want to save this out as an external file. Well, there's two methods
you can do that. First thing is click on your recording and right-click and Save Media As.
We'll go ahead and put it on the desktop and we'll call this MediaSave.
That saves it out as an mp4 for playback. Another option is to come over here to File and go to
Export, select Create a Video, and you have some options here to adjust the resolution
and actually record some narration along with it. When that's all set go to Create Video
and we'll call this one MediaExport.
Down here it's working on exporting that video out and creating your mp4 file.
Those two file formats are now available on our desktop
and let's take a look and see how it acts differently for each one of those.
This is the one that we did the Save As.
"I'm going to open up our calculator and do 1 2 3 times 4 5 6 ="
Now you can see it saved that out as the original file recording without
any of our cropping and any of our editing options. Now let's take a look at the export.
"Open up our calculator and do 1 2 3 x 4 5 6 =" This one saved all of our video format
options as well so you can see you have a couple of different options there if
you want to export that file out as an mp4 depending on how you're going to use it.
Now of course you can leave it here in PowerPoint as part of your presentation rather than exporting
it out to an mp4 but you get the idea. I'll mention one other option if you do recording
quite frequently. You can come up here to the ribbon and right-click and customize the ribbon
and in the list you'll see Recording as an option. Turn that checkbox on and hit OK and now you have
a Recording tab. Here you'll see that we have our screen recording option, we can save it as a show,
or export it to video. Those are the same options that we used earlier but in addition to that you
have options here to do screenshots where you can capture just a portion of your screen as an image
and insert it into your PowerPoint presentation, and you can record an entire slideshow. These
options here are quite powerful and add to your ability to do recordings related to video.
And that's a quick look at screen recording using PowerPoint. Be sure to click on the links at
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