How to record your screen in PowerPoint?

Few days back, a tweet from Jen Gentleman, community manager at Microsoft, asking "Do you know you can record your screen using PowerPoint?" evoked lots of responses. And all were eager to know how to do this? So I thought as so many PowerPoint users are interested, why not post about this feature.

How to record your computer screen in PowerPoint?

You can record your computer screen and related audio, and then embed it in your PowerPoint slide or you can save it as a separate file. Let us check the steps: 

• Open the PPT slide that you want to put the screen recording.
• On the Insert tab of the ribbon, select Screen Recording.
• On the Control Dock, click Select Area (Windows logo key+Shift+A), or, if you want to select the entire screen for recording, press Windows logo key+Shift+F.
  
  
  The Windows logo key+Shift+F keyboard shortcut is only available if you have an Office 2016   Click-to-Run installation; MSI-based installations don't have the shortcut.

If you have opted to select an area, you see the cross-haired cursor . Click and drag to select the area of the screen you want to record. (If you have already done a screen recording during your current PowerPoint session, your prior area selection will appear on the screen. You can proceed with recording if that selection area suits you, or you can click Select Area to start over.) 

PowerPoint automatically records the audio and the mouse pointer, so by default those options are selected on the control dock. To turn them off, deselect Audio (Windows logo key+Shift+U) and Record Pointer (Windows logo key+Shift+O).

•  Click Record (Windows logo key+Shift+R).Unless you pin the Control Dock to the screen, it will slide up into the margin while you record. To make the unpinned Control Dock reappear, point the mouse cursor at the top of the screen.
• To control your recording:
•  Click Pause to temporarily stop the recording (Windows logo key+Shift+R).
•  Click Record to resume recording (Windows logo key+Shift+R).
•  Click Stop to end your recording (Windows logo key+Shift+Q) (shown below).
  
  
  
• When you are finished recording, save your presentation: File > Save. The recording is now embedded on the slide you selected. To save the recording itself as a separate file on your computer, right-click the picture on the slide that represents the recording, and select Save Media as. In the Save Media As dialog box, specify a file name and folder location, then click Save.

To set your video 'Start' settings, right-click the video frame, click Start, and pick how you want your video to start in your presentation; automatically when a slide appears, or when you click the mouse.

To Trim your video,Right-click the video frame, and click Trim.To determine where you want to trim your video footage, in the Trim Video box, click Play.When you reach the point where you want to make the cut, click Pause. Use the Next Frame and Previous Frame buttons to specify precise timing. To trim the beginning of the clip, click the start point, when you see the two-headed arrow, drag the arrow to the desired starting position for the video. Similarly, to trim the end of the clip, click the end point, when you see the two-headed arrow, drag the arrow to the desired ending position for the video. Click OK.

To apply a style to the video frame, right-click the video frame, click Style, and pick a style you like.

 If you are running older version of Office, like Office 2013, please check the source for the steps.

Make better PowerPoint presentations

Here’s another video from the Office Casual series- Make better PowerPoint presentations -

Doug Thomas shows you how to give great presentations with some expert advice from Seth Godin, Guy Kawasaki, and Garr Reynolds, along with a tour of PowerPoint's underutilized Presenter's View feature in this video.

Office Mobile 2010 PowerPoint Streaming on Windows Phone 7

A new video of  Microsoft's Chris Capossela demoing the streaming capabilities of Office Mobile 2010 PowerPoint on Windows Phone 7.

pptPlex – Present your PowerPoint Slides as a Tour

Microsoft Office labs has come with one more cool project, pptPlex. pptPlex will provide an alternate method of presenting PowerPoint Slides. This plug-in will allow you to arrange slides on a canvas then zoom between the slides during the presentation. You can move around the canvas and show groups of slides, individual slides, or even zoom in to show a particular section of a slide.

You will have an idea if you had seen the Bill Gates’s TouchWall demonstration done at CEO Summit. The prototype software used was Plex (also developed by Office labs). pptPlex, though not the same prototype but  uses the idea and concept of Plex.

So using pptPlex, you can present your slides as a tour through a zoomable canvas instead of a series of linear slides. This adds a new dimension in PowerPoint Presentation. pptPlex works with Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007.

You can check more details, FAQs, Help videos and download it from here. Try it Now !

UPDATE : Just installed and trying it out.After installing this add-in, pptPlex will add a new tab in the Ribbon ‘pptPlex’ with various options.

 

 

I would say pptPlex is the Best thing that happened to PowerPoint 2007. You should try it out.

 

Check out this video and other Help videos at the Office Labs site.

(Thanks Steve)

ZoomIt Updated

An updated version of ZoomIt v1.6 has been released. I had earlier also had posted about it when it was released.
ZoomIt is one of the tools by Mark Russinovich of Windows Sysinternals.
ZoomIt is screen zoom and annotation tool for technical presentations that include application demonstrations. ZoomIt runs unobtrusively in the tray and activates with customizable hotkeys to zoom in on an area of the screen, move around while zoomed, and draw on the zoomed images.

Its very useful for using it during the Power Point presentations.
Where the presenter can zoom a particular portion of Slide, He can highlight a portion by drawing Rectangles, Circles and can also type. So the features of highlighting part of the slide in the presentations by drawing rectangles and circles is the new feature addition.
The following image shows a portion of the Power Point Slide being Zoomed and highlighted using a rectangle.Download ZoomIt v1.6.

ZoomIt

How many times during any presentation, you might have thought to zoom a portion of the slide , while explaining, or want to draw a line or write or annotate a portion, to stress a point while explaining a PowerPoint presentation. So for all this and much more there's a tool ZoomIt from Microsoft.

"ZoomIt is screen zoom and annotation tool for technical presentations that include application demonstrations. ZoomIt runs unobtrusively in the tray and activates with customizable hotkeys to zoom in on an area of the screen, move around while zoomed, and draw on the zoomed image."

ZoomIt has been written By Mark Russinovich.

The Top fig. shows the regular slide, while the bottom one is the Zoomed and marked slide using ZoomIt.

"The first time you run ZoomIt it presents a configuration dialog that describes ZoomIt's behavior, let's you specify alternate hotkeys for zooming and for entering drawing mode without zooming, and customize the drawing pen color and size.
ZoomIt also includes a break timer feature that remains active even when you tab away from the timer window and allows you to return to the timer window by clicking on the ZoomIt tray icon."