Recording
Voiceover in PowerPoint
You can
record your PowerPoint presentation and capture narrations, slide timings, and
ink gestures. After you have made the recording, it's like any other
presentation that can be played for you or your audience in Slide Show—or you
can save the presentation as a video file. For instructions on how to save the
presentation as a video file, see this article.
For macOS:
1.
Open the presentation you want and click the Slide Show
tab.
2.
Select the slide where you want the
recording to begin, and then click Record Slide Show
3.
PowerPoint doesn't record audio or video during transitions
between slides, so don't speak while advancing the slide. Also, include a brief
buffer of silence at the beginning and the end of each slide to make the
transitions smooth and ensure that you don't cut off audible narration while
transitioning from one slide to the next.
4.
During recording, you can use Ctrl+click to access the
recording commands that let you navigate through the slides or change cursors
(under Pointer Options). This is particularly useful if you would like
to make the cursor either hidden or more obvious, depending on if you would
like to annotate or point to particular parts of the slide as you are speaking.
5.
Click End Show to stop recording.
6.
A Save dialog box appears. Click Yes to save your
recording, or No if you want to record it again.
7.
Click Play from Start to preview your recording.
Notes:
·
Recordings are added to the presentation on a per-slide basis,
so if you want to change a recording, you only have to re-record the affected
slide or slides. Also, you can rearrange the order of slides after recording
without having to re-record anything. This also means it's easy to pause for a
break while recording a presentation.
·
As soon as you finish your first slide recording, play it back.
This way, you can make sure that the audio sounds the way that you expect
before you get too far down the road of recording your presentation.
For Microsoft
365 for Windows:
1.
Turn on the Recording tab of the ribbon: On the File
tab of the ribbon, click Options. In the Options dialog box,
click the Customize Ribbon tab on the left. Then, in the right-hand box
that lists the available ribbon tabs, select the Recording checkbox.
Click OK.
2.
To get ready to record, select Record Slide Show on
either the Recording tab or the Slide Showtab of the ribbon.
a.
Clicking the upper half of the button starts you on the current
slide.
b.
Clicking the lower half of the button gives you the option to
start from the beginning or from the current slide.
3.
The slide show opens in the Recording window (which looks
similar to Presenter view), with buttons at the top left for starting, pausing,
and stopping the recording. Click the round, red button (or press R on your
keyboard) when you are ready to start the recording. A three-second countdown
ensues, then the recording begins.
a.
You can record audio or video narration as you run through your
presentation. The buttons at the lower-right corner of the window allow you to
toggle on or off the microphone, camera, and camera preview:
b.
If you use the pen, highlighter, or eraser, PowerPoint records
those actions for playback also.
4.
To end your recording, select the square Stop button (or press S
on your keyboard).
5.
To preview the recorded slide show, click the Slide Show
tab, click From Beginning or From Current Slide.
During playback, your animations, inking actions, audio and
video will play in sync.
Notes:
·
If you re-record your narration (including audio and ink),
PowerPoint erases your previously recorded narration (including audio and ink)
before you start recording again on the same slide.
You can also re-record by going to Slide Show > Record
Slide Show.
·
PowerPoint doesn't record audio or video during transitions
between slides, so don't speak while advancing the slide. Also, include a brief
buffer of silence at the beginning and the end of each slide to make the
transitions smooth and ensure that you don't cut off audible narration while
transitioning from one slide to the next.
·
As soon as you finish your first slide recording, play it back.
This way, you can make sure that the audio sounds the way that you expect
before you get too far down the road of recording your presentation