Record a slide show with narration and slide timings

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All recording tools are in the Record tab in the ribbon, but you can start by selecting the Record button.

You can also record by selecting one of the options in the Record section of the Record tab.

If you have notes in your presentation, they’re turned into text at the top of the screen so you can use them like a teleprompter as you record.

Tip: Use the auto-scroll feature in teleprompter and set it to scroll at your preferred speed.

There are several options you can use when you record a presentation. You can turn your camera and microphone on or off by selecting the icons at the top.

There are several options you can use when you record a presentation. You can turn your camera and microphone on or off by selecting the icons at the top. To change your camera or microphone, choose the Select more options <···> icon.

You can even add a customizable camera that can be resized, repositioned, and formatted to go with your slide content. Select Edit, then select Cameo. Adjust the formatting for the camera, then select Record again to return to the recording environment.

In the Select the camera mode menu, you can select Show Background or Blur Background.

You can also change the layout in the Views menu to switch between Teleprompter, Presenter View, or Slide View.

In the Teleprompter view, select the auto-scroll feature. Then adjust the scroll speed as per your preference to refer to script with ease while recording.

1. When you’re ready, select Start recording and a countdown will begin.
2. Use the onscreen laser, colored pens, or highlighters in the tray below markup slides and it’ll record as well.
3. To record narration for a specific slide, use the previous or next arrows.Note: Narration won’t record during slide transitions so let those play first before you start speaking.
4. Pause the recording as needed or select Stop if you’re done.
5. To review the video, select the Play button.
6. To quickly delete and re-record your video on current slide or on all slides, select Delete. While Clear will delete the recorded narration, Reset to Cameo additionally replaces the recorded narration with the camera feed for an easy retake.
7. When you’re done, select Export > Export Video.
8. After you successfully export the video, you can view the video by selecting View and share video.

At any time, you can return to your document by selecting the Edit button.

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About Record in PowerPoint

Create a self-running presentation

Export or turn your presentation into a video

Preview the recorded slide show

On the Slide Show tab, click From Beginning or From Current Slide.

During playback, your animations, inking actions, audio and video will play in sync.

Preview the recorded sound

In the Recording window, the triangular Play button near the top left corner lets you preview the recording of the slide that currently has the focus in that window.

In Normal view, click the sound icon or picture in the lower-right corner of the slide, and then click Play. (When you preview individual audio in this way, you won’t see recorded animation or inking.)

You can pause playback while previewing the audio.

Set the slide timings manually

PowerPoint for Microsoft 365 automatically records your slide timings when you add narrations, or you can manually set the slide timings to accompany your narrations.

1. In Normal view, click the slide that you want to set the timing for.
2. On the Transitions tab, in the Timing group, under Advance Slide, select the After check box, and then enter the number of seconds that you want the slide to appear on the screen. Repeat the process for each slide that you want to set the timing for.If you want the next slide to appear either when you click the mouse or automatically after the number of seconds that you enter—whichever comes first—select both the On Mouse Click and the After check boxes.You can use manual slide timings to the trim the end of a recorded slide segment. For example, if the end of a slide segment concludes with two seconds of unnecessary audio, simply set the timing for advancing to the next slide so that it happens before the unnecessary audio. That way you don’t have to re-record the audio for that slide.

Delete timings or narration

The Clear command is for deleting timings or narration from your recording that you don’t want or that you want to replace.

In the Recording window, the Clear command in the top margin of the window allows you to:

• Clear recordings on the current slide
• Clear recordings on all slides

In Normal view, there are four different Clear commands that allow you to:

• Delete the timings on the currently selected slide
• Delete the timings on all slides at once
• Delete the narration on the currently selected slide
• Delete the narration on all slides at once

1. If you do not want to delete all the timings or narration in your presentation, open a specific slide that has a timing or narration that you do want to delete.
2. On the Recording tab of the PowerPoint for Microsoft 365 ribbon, on the Record Slide Show button, click the down arrow, point to Clear, and then choose the appropriate Clear command for your situation.

Turn off timings or turn off narrations, and ink

After you’ve recorded your PowerPoint for Microsoft 365 presentation, any timings, gestures, and audio you performed are saved on the individual slides. But you can turn them all off if you want to view the slide show without them:

• To turn off recorded slide timings: On the Slide Show tab, clear the Use Timings box.
• To turn off recorded narrations and ink: On the Slide Show tab, clear the Play Narrations box.

Publish the recording to share it with others

Once you’ve edited the recording to your satisfaction, you can make it available to others by publishing to Microsoft Stream.

1. With the presentation open, on the Recording tab, select Publish to Stream.
2. Type a title and a description for the video.
3. Set other options, including whether you want others in your organization to have permission to see the video.
4. Select the Publish button.The upload process can take several minutes, depending on the length of the video. A status bar at the bottom of the PowerPoint window tracks the progress, and PowerPoint shows a message when the upload is finished:
5. Click the message to go directly to the video playback page on Microsoft Stream.

Create closed captions

To make your video more accessible by including closed captions, choose from these options, which are described in separate Help articles:

• Manually write a closed caption file yourself
• Get a closed-caption file automatically generated by Microsoft Stream

Once you have a closed-caption file, you can add it to your video file by using PowerPoint.