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Tutorial: Record a PowerPoint Presentation

Use the Camtasia Studio PowerPoint Add-in to quickly and easily record and produce PowerPoint presentations right from within PowerPoint.

Use the Camtasia Studio PowerPoint Add-in to quickly and easily record and produce PowerPoint presentations right from within PowerPoint.

PowerPoint Example

Choose the Record PowerPoint option in the Task List.
Open a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation to record.
Select the recording options from the PowerPoint add-in toolbar.
- To record voice narration, click Record Audio
- To record camera video (Picture-in-Picture), click Record Camera
- To preview the camera stream while recording, click Camera Preview
- Click Camtasia Studio recording options to change settings.
Click the Record button
The presentation opens in presentation mode and a Camtasia Studio dialog opens in the lower right corner of the screen. Click the Click to begin recording button.
Progress through the PowerPoint presentation slides as you normally would, speaking into the microphone to record the Voice Narration.
At the end of the presentation, press the ESC key to end the recording.
Click Stop recording.
Enter a file name and location and click Save. The recording of the presentation is saved as a Camtasia Studio recording file (.camrec).

Use these PowerPoint best practices when creating a presentation to get very best results when recording and sharing your presentation.

Best Font: 32 Arial
Use Sans serif fonts
Use high contrasts: Either a light background with dark font or a dark background with light font
Use simple backgrounds
Spell check before recording
Use the Notes option - imports into Camtasia Studio as captions.
Use Title placeholders - text imports into Camtasia Studio as table of contents markers
Use well-cropped images
Use simple animations
Add transitions between slides in PowerPoint, not Camtasia Studio. Use the same transition throughout the entire presentation.