How to Record a PowerPoint Presentation with Right Timing

How to record a slide show with the right timing and narration easily? You might find the recording utility baked in PowerPoint a hassle for finishing the task. It’s also troublesome to set and record the timing, and for old PPT versions, voice will not be recorded during the transition of slides. Besides, with mere a PowerPoint, you can’t edit and cut your PowerPoint recording after you find some mindless mistakes. Is there any workaround to resolve the above issues?

As a powerful and easy-to-use video processor, VideoProc has screen recorder tool kit built-in, readily accessible for you to capture screen, select area to record, and even recording webcam and screen simultaneously, thus automatically create PiP videos with yourself presenting a PowerPoint presentation.

Step 1: Download VideoProc > Start up > Click Recorder button.

Step 2: Hit Screen button on the upper toolbar.

Step 3: Open your PPT and start the slide show, hit Rec to begin recording. VideoProc will run silently in the background.

Tips: Press the hot keys you’ve set before to call out Paint Tool if you want to highlight something.

Step 4: Go on with your PowerPoint presentation, when it’s finished, hit Stop to end recording (or use shortcut key you set) and save your PowerPoint presentation.

Tips: You can edit and cut your video directly in VideoProc. Trimming off part of PPT presentation you don’t need is easy.

How to Record Yourself Presenting a Powerpoint

VideoProc allows you to simultaneously record the facecam and PowerPoint content on computer screen. In so doing, you can record yourself presenting a PowerPoint. While you are talking with facecam on, and moving the cursor on PowerPoint, both yourself and the slideshow are recorded.

Step 1: Start up VideoProc > Click Recorder button.

Step 2: Hit Screen & Webcam > Choose Record screen and check whether your webcam is capturing the front scene.

Step 3: Select Record screen while showing facecam.

Step 4: Press with Red REC button to start recording.

Step 5: Now you can make a slideshow presentation while the recorder have you also recorded.

Tips: Videos are automatically saved, you don’t need to worry about data loss.

How to Record Yourself Presenting a Powerpoint with Greenscreen

The steps are almost the same as the previous part. You only need two extra step to let the magic happen.

Step 1: On the right panel, tick the box “remove webcam background”.

Step 2: Set the color value the same as your background: using the color picker tool, and click on your background (the green screen).

By so doing, VideoProc will automatically remove that green screen background.

How to Record on PowerPoint — All Versions

In fact, you might find it troublesome to end your recording, and according to Microsoft support, in old versions of PPT, voice will not be recorded when transiting between slides. But still, if you want to stick to the native way, here are the steps to record a PowerPoint presentation with Office 365 and PowerPoint for older Windows versions and macOS.

#1 Record PPT on Office 365 for Windows Version

Step 1: Go to Slide show tab and click Rcord Slide Show.

Step 2: Select Start Recording from Begining if you want to save the whole file as a video, else choose Start Recording from Current Slide.

Step 3: Go on with the presentation and stop recording once you are done.

#2 PowerPoint for Older Windows Versions

Step 1: Open up PowerPoint and click slide show on the upper toolbar.

Step 2: Tick the boxes for your recording in the pop-up window and hit Start recording.

Tips: You can pause and re-record your slide show in the upper left corner of the window.

Step 3: Right-click in the final slide to put an end to your show.

Tips: Using this approach, it’s like stitching together each slides and it’s hard to have natural voiceover recorded.

#3 PowerPoint for macOS

Step 1: Hit the Slide Show button and click Record Slide Show in your starting slide.

Tips: Press Ctrl and click to call out pointer options while recording.

Step 2: Hit End Show to finish your recording.

Step 3: Choose Yes to save your slide show in the pop-up window.

Wrap-up

Record a PowerPoint presentation could be useful to make video tutorials for lectures, illustrate your point more persuasively and share you idea conveniently in different scenarios. VideoProc as excellent video processing software with handy tool kit of recorder, is easier to handle even for beginner-level users. Besides, you can rely on VideoProc to convert incompatible video format for PPT, thus solving codec unavailable issues.