These tutorials support Camtasia 2018, Camtasia 9 for Windows, and Camtasia 3 for Mac. Start Here Record, edit, and share a video with this series of essential skills and techniques, or pick just the one you need to perfect your project. Microsoft PowerPoint allows you to save PowerPoint as video in Windows Media Video (.wmv) file format. If you plan for sharing your presentation as a video before creating it, you can decide whether to record the narration before creating the presentation.
Use Shift-Command-5 in macOS Mojave
With macOS Mojave, press Shift-Command (⌘)-5 on your keyboard to see all the controls you need to record video and capture still images of your screen. Use these onscreen controls to select whether to record the entire screen, record a selected portion, or capture a still image of your screen. If you haven't upgraded to Mojave, you can record the screen with QuickTime Player.
Record the entire screen
- Click in the onscreen controls. Your pointer changes to a camera .
- Click any screen to start recording that screen, or click Record in the onscreen controls.
- Use the thumbnail to trim, share, save, or take other actions.
Record a selected portion of the screen
- Click in the onscreen controls.
- Drag to select an area of the screen to record. To move the entire selection, drag from within the selection.
- To start recording, click Record in the onscreen controls.
- To stop recording, click in the menu bar. Or press Command-Control-Esc (Escape).
- Use the thumbnail to trim, share, save, or take other actions.
Trim, share, and save
After you stop recording, a thumbnail of the video appears briefly in the lower-right corner of your screen.
- Take no action or swipe the thumbnail to the right and the recording is automatically saved.
- Click the thumbnail to open the recording. You can then click to trim the recording, or click to share it.
- Drag the thumbnail to move the recording to another location, such as to a document, an email, a Finder window, or the Trash.
- Control-click the thumbnail for more options. For example, you can change the save location, open the recording in an app, or delete the recording without saving it.
Change the settings
Click Options in the onscreen controls to change these settings:
- Save to: Choose where your recordings are automatically saved, such as Desktop, Documents, or Clipboard.
- Timer: Choose when to begin recording: immediately, 5 seconds, or 10 seconds after you click to record.
- Microphone: To record your voice or other audio along with your recording, choose a microphone.
- Show Floating Thumbnail: Choose whether to show the thumbnail.
- Remember Last Selection: Choose whether to default to the selections you made the last time you used this tool.
- Show Mouse Clicks: Choose whether to show a black circle around your pointer when you click in the recording.
Use QuickTime Player
QuickTime Player also has a screen-recording feature, and you don't need macOS Mojave to use it.
- Open QuickTime Player from your Applications folder, then choose File > New Screen Recording from the menu bar. The Screen Recording window opens.
- Before starting your recording, you can click the arrow next to to change the recording settings:
- To record your voice or other audio with the screen recording, choose a microphone. To monitor that audio during recording, adjust the volume slider (if you get audio feedback, lower the volume or use headphones with a microphone).
- To show a black circle around your pointer when you click, choose Show Mouse Clicks in Recording.
- To record your voice or other audio with the screen recording, choose a microphone. To monitor that audio during recording, adjust the volume slider (if you get audio feedback, lower the volume or use headphones with a microphone).
- To start recording, click and then take one of these actions:
- Click anywhere on the screen to begin recording the entire screen.
- Or drag to select an area to record, then click Start Recording within that area.
- To stop recording, click in the menu bar, or press Command-Control-Esc (Escape).
- After you stop recording, QuickTime Player automatically opens the recording. You can now play, edit, or share the recording.
Learn more
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- When saving your recording automatically, your Mac uses the name ”Screen Recording date at time.mov”.
- To cancel making a recording, press the Esc key before clicking to record.
- You can open screen recordings with QuickTime Player, iMovie, and other apps that can edit or view videos.
- Some apps, such as DVD Player, might not let you record their windows.
- Learn how to record the screen on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.
Contents
Windows Users
Mac Users
- Use Office 365 (local version)
- Use Google Slides
- Use Keynote($20)
- Use Screencast-o-Matic.com
- Use ScreenFlow($90 ed. discount)
Related
If you are using Windows . . .
- you may quickly record your narrated lectures using Microsoft PowerPoint(version 2013 or higher) and convert them to video for easy online viewing through YouTube. Microsoft Office is available free to UIDAHO faculty and staff (Download Office now).
If you are using a Mac . . .
- If you are running Office 365 locally, you may now record narrations and export presentations as mp4 videoes for upload to YouTube--just as you can on Windows. However, this feature is not available for the cloud version of Office 365 nor is it available for Office 2016. To confirm your version of Office on the Mac, choose PowerPoint > About PowerPoint at the top of your screen and confirm License: Office 365.
- If you don't have access to a local version of Office 365, you may use Keynote to produce lectures for YouTube or use Screencast-o-Matic. Keynote's advantage over Screencast-o-Matic is that each slide can be edited independently as needed. However Keynote costs $20 and Screencast-o-Matic.com is free.
- WARNING: If a narrated Microsoft PowerPoint presentation was created using a Mac, the only way to create a video of it without losing the audio is to save the presentation as a .pptx file and then transfer it to a Windows machine. Load the .pptx file into a Windows version of Microsoft PowerPoint and then Export the Presentation as Video.
Recording Tips
- Record a test run to check your audio levels.
Record Narrated PowerPoint
- Open your slides in Microsoft PowerPoint(version 2013 or higher) (Windows only).
- Go to the Slide Show tab.
- Click Record Slide Show.
- Tip 1: Try not to speak while transitioning between slides, it may cut you off.
- Tip 2: Use PowerPoint's Laser Pointer to focus on key points.
- Once you've finished recording your narration, press Esc to exit the recording process.
- Save your presentation to a safe place on your computer.
- Listen to the presentation to be sure it meets your expectations.
- If you need to re-record a slide, navigate to the slide you want to edit, use the pull down for the 'Record Side Show' button to Start Recording from Current Slide.... When you are done recording the edit for that slide, hit the ESC button rather than moving forward to the next slide. If you move forward instead, you will be re-recording the audio for the next slide as well.
Export Presentation as Video (MP4)
- Once the presentation is finished, click the File menu in PowerPoint.
- Select Export, and then Create Video.
- Leave these default settings:
- Computer & HD Displays
- Use Recorded Timings and Narration
- Click the Create Video button.
- Watch the Creating Video progress bar at the bottom of the PowerPoint window to know when the video is done.
Upload Video to YouTube
YouTube provides a free, stable video service and links/embeds well into BbLearn. Learn how to Upload Video to YouTube. YouTube automatically produces Closed Captioning (CC) for most of the shorter uploaded videos using speech recognition technology. This process may take several days to complete. Since the CC is automatically generated, the quality of these captions will vary from video to video. You will probably want to edit YouTube's automatic captions to improve their accuracy.
If you do not see the CC button on the video after waiting several days, the uploaded video may be longer than YouTube is willing to process. However, closed captioning can be created and uploaded using captioning software or by paying for captioning services (~$1.00/min) (see YouTube Help).
An alternative video distribution service is Vimeo. This service does not automatically produce Closed Captioning, but does offer Password Protection for videos uploaded to it.
FAQ: Why not upload video into BbLearn?
Answer: Uploading videos into BbLearn is not recommended because...
- BbLearn does not provide a built-in video player and thus, your students' video experience will be inconsistent and may not work.
- The file size of an MP4 video is much larger (i.e. slower to download) than a processed video hosted from a service like YouTube or Vimeo.
- BbLearn is not designed to function as a video delivery service and does not have the resources available to house files of this size.
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