How to Record PowerPoint with Audio – 2 Most Efficient Methods You Should Know

How to Record A PowerPoint Presentation

Part 1: The Best Method to Record A PowerPoint Presentation as Video

What is the ultimate method to record a PowerPoint presentation as a video format? When you want to include everything in the presentation video, such as the commentary files, webcam footage, microphone voice, system sound and more files. 4Videosoft Screen Capture is a versatile PowerPoint presentation recorder to capture all onscreen activities. Moreover, you can also tweak the audio/video settings, add annotation/shapes/watermark, and even manage the recording files with ease.

Step 1Download and install the PowerPoint presentation recorder, you can launch the program on your computer. Go to the Video Recorder menu from the main user interface. When you need to tweak the video and audio settings, you can click the Gear icon and set up the desired output accordingly.

Step 2Go back to the Video Recorder menu and select the Custom option to choose the windows of PowerPoint presentation only. Of course, you can also add the webcam footage via the Webcam menu, or even enable the microphone voice via the Microphone menu instead.

Step 3Once you are satisfied with the settings, you can click the REC button before you start the slideshow of PowerPoint. During the recording process, you can also add the commentary, facecam, or even add the annotations about the important points of the video presentation.

Step 4To preview and edit the recorded PowerPoint presentation, you can clip the video by inputting the start time and the end time, adjust the volume and take snapshots of the videos, or even re-record and save the video of the presentation within the program directly.

Step 5After that, you can click the Save button to set the save path and show all recorded files to you in a few seconds. Of course, you can also preview the videos, rename the files, add to another folder, share to the social media websites, or delete them accordingly.

Part 2: How to Turn PowerPoint Presentation into A Video as Default

When you want to record a PowerPoint presentation, you can either save the PowerPoint as PPSX file, or even save your presentation to a video format, such as MP4 or WMV, you can just simply take advantage of the default Recording feature to record PowerPoint with audio with ease.

Step 1Before recording a PowerPoint presentation as a video, you can click the File menu and select the Save option to ensure all your recent work has been saved in PowerPoint presentation format.

Step 2Go to the File menu and choose the Create a Video option from the Export option. After that, you can tweak and adjust the export settings for your PowerPoint presentation video accordingly.

Step 3Select the PowerPoint video quality from the drop down according to your requirement. If you need to control the PowerPoint slide timings, you can check the Use Recorded Timings and Narrations box.

Step 4After that, you can click the Start Recording option to open up a Save As window. Set a folder and filename for your output video and in the Save as type box to save the desired videos.

Step 5Choose either MPEG-4 Video or Windows Media Video. If you need to capture a large video file, you can set it up to be created overnight. To play the video, double click the video within the designated folder location.

Step 6After you have created the video file, you can upload it to a video-sharing site. Microsoft Stream is an enterprise video service where people in an organization can upload, view, and share videos. (Get Microsoft Screen Recorder here)