Recording indicator shows a red circle when recording is in progress and a grey circle otherwise. Preview recording allows you to preview your recorded narration, animations, ink, and laser pointer gestures on the current slide without exiting the record window.
With a microphone, speakers, and a sound card, you can record your presentation and capture your voice narration, slide timings, and laser pointer gestures.
Try it! Record narration and timings for your presentation to give it a professional and polished feel. Record narration and timings Open the slide you want to start recording from. Near the upper right corner of the PowerPoint window, select Record. When you're ready, select the round, red Record button, wait for the countdown, then start speaking. To record from a specific slide, go to it ...
Add closed captions to a video You can add captions to presentations that you've recorded with video narration, screen recordings, and any other video (except online videos) that you insert into PowerPoint. In PowerPoint, in the Normal view, open the slide that has the video that you want to add captions to. Select the video on the slide.
You can record a narration before you run a presentation, or you can record it during the presentation and include audience comments. If you do not want narration throughout your entire presentation, you can record separate sounds or comments on selected slides or objects. For more details, see Record a slide show with narration and slide timings.
When you make a recording of a presentation, all its elements (narration, animation, pointer movements, timings, and so on) are saved in the presentation itself. In essence, the presentation becomes a video that your audience can watch in PowerPoint. So you have two options for turning your presentation into a video that's ready to view: Save/export your presentation to a video file format ...