How to Make Videos Using Only PowerPoint – No Extra Software Needed

an overlooked feature of Microsoft PowerPoint is  the ability to create videos from right within   your presentation so let's say you've made your  presentation you don't need another thirdparty   app to record your screen you can use PowerPoint  and you can even go through and edit it and then   when you're done shared as a video uploaded as a  YouTube so this is great so if you have a business   and you need training videos or maybe you're  an instructor and you've already made all these   PowerPoints with a few clicks inside PowerPoint  you can record everything let's go through through   this step by step hi I'm Jamie and  welcome to teachers Tech I've created this   little PowerPoint here today as a demo it's about  dog grooming so just a random topic but let's say   I have a business and I have this information  that I want to share with my clients or maybe   employees about how to do this I don't want to  just share it as a PowerPoint with them I want to   be able to give the instructions so that they can  hear me or even see me and we can do this inside   PowerPoint and then as I said before send it as a  video I even have notes on each slide that I like   to follow so let's start with the first step what  do we do to start turning this into a video I'm   using the Microsoft 365 version of PowerPoint  yours might look slightly different if you're

using something else but this feature has been  around for a while now if I go across the top   here in my tabs you'll see that there's a record  option I'm going to select that now once this   opens up the ribbon it shows me all the things I  can do inside this presentation now to begin with   all I'm going to be doing is just clicking  from beginning but notice that I can click   from current slide to record from there's screen  recording and after I'm done showing you how to   take a video I'm going to show you how this screen  recording works because you can record your screen   inside PowerPoint and that's a great feature in  this tutorial I am focused on about how to create   this as a training video with placing yourself in  there with video or voice but you don't even have   have to do that inside PowerPoint if I had a  presentation like these nine slides right here   and I had my animations and timing and everything  in it I can export it as a video right now so I   could click on this and go through the steps I  will be talking about this later when I'm done   showing you how to create these training videos  with the video of yourself and audio captured   just to begin with I'm going to just click on from  beginning cuz I want to point out something about

cameos as well but I'm going to click on from  beginning and you're going to see that it opens   up in this view notice that I'm down here right  now this is the Cameo and we can change where   this goes as well if I don't want the camera on  you don't have to have the camera so across the   top and I haven't started recording I have to  hit this red button to record or in this case   I can hit R and it will start recording as well  but if I don't want the camera on I can click it   right here or turn it off and you won't see me  but I can quickly turn it back on the same thing   with the microphone I do want to point out to uh  pick I have multiple cameras on mine so what I can   do is go to the microphone or camera and select  which one I want from the list to make sure you're   getting the highest quality because one thing  when you're recording these type of videos you   want to make sure you have a good mic uh it makes  a big difference in the quality that you'll get   but these are some quick options up here again I  haven't started recording yet some other things   that you might want to think about is at the very  bottom maybe you have a background where you don't   want to be showing things this down here is a blur  background now mine won't really make a difference   because it's just you see the gray back there but  this is to make it blurry if You' like it that   way and this is our view of how we want to present  we I have it in presenter view right now there is   teleprompter and you can adjust how fast you want  this to go I don't have a lot of notes on this but   then if you'll see there's a scroll speed  so if I hit play right now as you're presenting   this is built into PowerPoint so you can follow  along with your notes remember what you're seeing   on this screen up here isn't going to be recorded  it's just the presentation with my Cameo here now   I can also change it to a different view you see  there is slide view this inside here is what's   going to be recorded I'm just going to keep this  in pres presenter viw for this demo here today if   you want to get out of this you can simply go back  to edit or you can hit escape on your keyboard and   it brings you right back that you know what the  Cameo is I want to show you how you can customize

this if I go up to Cameo and I'm just going to  do the drop- down arrow here and I can insert   a cameo into the slides or all slides so I can  choose where the Cameo is going to be showing up   so I can go Slide by slide so if I click on just  this slide it places The Cameo right here and   notice designer is going to give me some options  of what they think you might want uh how to place   it so if I click on one of these like this it  quickly changes this if you're new to PowerPoint   and want to learn more about PowerPoint I'll  put my beginner's guide because I do talk about   designer in that as well but check the link for  that up above in the card but so if you like this   you can go ahead and just keep it if I undo this  with contrl Z what I can also do with the Cameo   I can move this around I can size this just like  this I can go through and add all these different   styles to this so you can pick what you want or  choose one of the designers here for you so let's   say if I go ahead and have this here and this is  going to be on this slide I can go see what I look   like in this so if I just click the camera on here  it gives me a better idea of what I'm going to be   looking like when I present here notice that the  preview is up top if you don't want to do it   one by one you can go through and uh go back to  your record Cameo all slides and I can go ahead   and delete this one because I don't need to have  two on it but now they Place The Cameo on each one   I can go through and use designer in a hurry to  move my Cameo around on each of these so I could   go through find one I like and just go through  and pick this way and do the little preview if you   would like so that's a little bit more about  Cameo but let's go back to record now and I'm not   going to customize all these I just want to make  sure you knew how to do this I'm going to go to   record again and from beginning  and we're going to do a bit of recording now

one thing I like to do before I start is I just  click or I can use the right arrow to go through   and see how things are with the cameos uh this one  well I don't want this kind of a messy background   or maybe I changed the background or this is  where I could use the blur just to make sure   can hide things I don't want to be shown and as  I go through it shows where the Cameo is in each   case I'm not going to worry about where each Cameo  is for this demo I'm going to get ready to record   so I'm just going to go back to the first one when  I'm ready to record I have all my right cameras   and my uh correct mic I can click here or hit  r on my keyboard which might be a little easier   than bringing your mouse up here but that would  be your choice I'm going to click on it count does   the countdown and right now it it's recording  so I can go through and introduce my topic of   dog grooming maybe I want to use the tools down  here for marking things up if I draw something   uh on here all this is going to be added to this  if I go to the next slide I I'm still presenting   we're talking about pregg groming preparation  post grooming preparation and all this um I'll   do a little bit more markup here and we'll go just  one more slide here uh just for the demo purpose   purposes here I'll change my color and Mark this  up a bit now I can go ahead and hit stop at this   point if I notice it shows me for each slide what  I'm on and in then the total one as well so I'll   hit stop and you're maybe wondering uh what do  I do with this now well I could actually export   what I've done already I could go to export this  way but what I like to do is go back uh to edit   and you're going to see now if I click on the  PowerPoint I have the video inside that I can   watch of the slides that I did so if I go to this  one hit play and right now it's recorded so I can   and on each of these slides that I was presenting  I have the video that I can go through and play   on it so I went through those three slides these  ones here just have the place holder of the Cameo   I haven't recorded anything yet but that doesn't  mean I can't record anything now because I could   go from current slide and I could start recording  on this one so we'll let this count down I'm not   going to say very much uh but now this is going  ahead and recording this I'm going to go ahead   and stop and edit so now on this slide I have  this video inside these videos you can do some

editing as well so if I click on this right here  if we look up in the tabs we have playback notice   we have a couple different options  here uh but we're looking at playback we can   trim the video or fade it in and out uh but if I  go trim video if I don't want something maybe at   the very beginning I wasn't quite ready yet  I can trim the video from each side I can't   splice it and cut things out of the middle but I  can uh trim from each side uh now if I hit okay   that's going to adjust the ends of it and I can  go back to check it where I would like so that's   a great feature to have as you go through and  create your different slides and have your audio

and video placed in it's a good idea to save your  PowerPoint making sure that nothing is lost uh the   other thing I want to point out is on any of these  you have the option to clear your recordings or   cameos I can reset a cameo uh so in this case if  I wanted my Cameo to go back to uh maybe I'll pick   current slide you can see how it just changes  contrl Z will place that back I can also clear   my record recording so if I wanted to start all  over again I could go and clear on all slides and   notice how all the markups and all the recordings  are gone I'm just going to put it back here for uh   the option of the exporting it to video because we  haven't turned it into a video yet and PowerPoint   makes this very easy so if I go and just go over  to the export options notice I have this option

save as a show so this will create a separate  slideshow you could do it this way but in this one   I'm talking about creating a video so let's export  this as a video I could exported it as a video at   the very beginning even without recording myself  in it or putting my audio you could reexport it   just as a blank PL PowerPoint it would have all  your timings in it I just want to point out when   I export this it's going to have all nine slides  in it even though I haven't recorded uh any of   the uh ones on these slides here so you could go  through and delete maybe ones that if they weren't   finished yet but I'll show you what happen happens  when I export it before I just go ahead and click   on export video I want to show you a few options  so the file name just picked up as the name that   I called the PowerPoint you can change this if  you would like it's going to be an mp4 so this is   easily sharable uploading to YouTube but I could  go browse at this point if you wanted to save this   in a different spot on your computer you can pick  where you can also save it to the cloud that makes   her easy sharing that way as well you can also go  to custom export here customize export because you   can choose if I drop down on this 1080 here I  can choose 4K 720 480 so depending on what size   and quality you need uh do you want to have the  recording timings and variations that are used as   part of the PowerPoint you can also don't use them  so I'm just going to leave those ones on seconds   spent on each slide it's going to go at 5 seconds  in that case so if you get everything set up the   way you want just go ahead and hit create video  and it's going to ask you where you want this save   I can hit export at this point it's going to go  through and this one will be pretty quickly but   it will go through and create the video saved in  that location tells me that the video was exported   successfully I can view uh and share so if I click  on this one I'm just going to say yes it will open   up the video I can hit play and introduce my  topic of dooming maybe I want to use animations   were part of it if I just go ahead as I bring this  through you can see the markup on each of these   slides how it goes through uh with me talking  on each one and this is in video format this   is no longer a PowerPoint if I go through and I'm  going to keep going you can see how these slides   at the end uh were placed in here uh even though  I didn't present on any of these so like I said   at the beginning you don't have to put yourself in  it you could just export your slideshow as a video   this is the file on my computer where I have  my PowerPoint saved so this is what we started   with and this is the finished video so we have two  different files if I want to share the video this   is the file that I need to send people or place in  the cloud or I could take this file and upload it   to YouTube remember there was one last thing that  I wanted to show you uh that I mentioned earlier

and that was about how to record uh screen  record with PowerPoint and we can place it   right in one of the slides and can this can be  part of your finished video as well so if I go   and I put in a blank slide here I could go to  screen recording so if I click screen recording   and I just have this as a demo I have Microsoft  Excel open I can go ahead and pick an area so I   can select an area that I want to record if I  just go like this I can hit record or I could   hit Windows logo key shift d and this will stop it  when I go or else hit Windows logo key shift Q we   have our audio and our pointer so if I hit record  it will count down and now this is recording what   I'm telling it to capture on my screen when I'm  all done I could hit the shortcut control shift   and then uh D or go back up here and hover over  and click on there so now this screen capture is   placed right inside that slide and if I was going  to uh go to record and Export this is a video this   screen capture becomes part of this so this is  a video if I hit play you hear my uh voice in   it and I can do what I showed you before with the  playback I could do any trimming on this as well   so this is a great feature if you need to capture  anything on your screen I hope this tutorial on   how to create videos with PowerPoint has helped  you out and you can start using it right away for   your next training video or educ video and  it will be easy to share with others thanks   for watching this week on teachers Tech I'll see  you next time with more Tech tips and tutorials