One of the simplest ways of recording a video of your PowerPoint slides is to insert audio into each slide and then have that audio automatically play when viewed. You can then export the slides and audio as a video. Here is how to do that.
- Make sure you have the PowerPoint app installed on your Mac. If you want to know how to do that for free, read these instructions.
- Open or create a presentation and go to the first slide. Click on Insert in the menu bar.
- Click on Audio and then Record Audio.
- You might need to give permission for PowerPoint to use your microphone. Click OK
- Click on the record button to start recording
- Click on the stop button to stop recording
- Click on Insert to add the audio to your slide
- Click and drag the speaker icon to somewhere on the slide.
- Click on Playback in the menu bar and then click on the dropdown menu next to Start and choose Automatically.
- Once you have recorded audio for all of your slides, click on File and then Export.
- Next to File Format, choose MP4. Next to Quality, choose Internet Quality. Click on Export.
- Make sure you save your presentation as well. If you save it to your Douglas College OneDrive account, you can also share that presentation.
Here is an example of a shared PowerPoint presentation with audio recording for each slide. It also shows you visual steps of what is shared above.
