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How to Record a PowerPoint Presentation (with Sound & Video)
Recording with audio and video will enhance the overall presentation
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Updated onJuly 25, 2024
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Recording yourPowerPoint presentationwith audio and video can make it more attractive and exciting. This can help to keep your audience engaged and focused, making it more likely that they will stay engaged throughout your entire presentation.
Microsoft PowerPoint offers options to record PowerPoint presentations with audio and video, allowing you to present the slides whilecapturing your camerafeed.
There are two ways to create a PowerPoint presentation with sound and video: by recording a slideshow with audio and video or by adding external audio and video to your presentation.
Can you record PowerPoint with audio?
PowerPoint allows you to record your screen along with your voiceover narration. You can either record your voice as you present the slides or add apre-recorded audiotrack to your presentation.
During recording, you can turn off your camera, allowing you to include only your voice narration orbackground musicin your presentation.
When you’re done recording, you can save the presentation as a video file or PowerPoint Show that includes both the slides and the audio.
How do I record PowerPoint presentations with audio and video?
1. Check your microphone and camera settings
2. Convert older Powerpoint presentations
3. Record PowerPoint with audio and video
The recordings are added to the presentation on a slide-by-slide basis. So, if you need to modify a recording, you only need to re-record the specific slide or slides affected.
4. Check the Recordings
For each slide, you should see a speaker icon or a thumbnail image in the lower-right corner, along with a recording time indicating how long the recording is.
Once you are satisfied with your recording, you can export the entire recorded presentation as a Slide show or a video.
5. Save the presentation as a PowerPoint Show
If you’re looking for other useful tips, here’s our guide onhow to print a PPT with noteswith a few clicks.
6. Save the presentation as a video
It may take some time to create the video, depending on your computer’s performance. Once the video is created, it can be played on any video player.
How to add audio and video to a PowerPoint presentation?
Instead of recording audio and video directly in PowerPoint, you can add external audio and video files to your presentation.
1. Add audio to a PowerPoint presentation
2. Add video to a PowerPoint presentation
There are many advantages to recordingPowerPoint presentations.They can be used as a record of a meeting that can be uploaded to the internet, shared with those who could not attend the meeting, or used as instructional videos to convey information.
Also, before you leave, find out how tomake the image background transparent in PowerPoint.
If you need tojump to a slide in a long PowerPoint presentation, read the highlighted guide to learn how to do that.
To learn more about PowerPoint, we have a great guide on how toinsert an Excel file into PowerPoint as icon, so don’t miss it.
If you found this guide helpful, don’t hesitate to share your experience with us by using the comment section below.
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Loredana Harsana
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Loredana is a passionate writer with a keen interest in PC software and technology. She started off writing about mobile phones back when Samsung Galaxy S II was on top of the world and she fell in love with tech of all sorts.
Whenever she’s not at her work desk, you’ll find her enjoying refreshing tea flavors, spilling stories on paper, and listening to the radio.
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