A workshop presented at the Faculty of Veterinary Science (University of Pretoria) VetEd Symposium on 22 July 2015.

1. Saving your breath: narrating
and recording a PowerPoint
presentation for future use
Dr M Pienaar

2. In this workshop
• Using your own headset/microphone
• Using the Sennheiser microphone
• Using Camtasia - Demo
Saving your breath: narrating and recording a PowerPoint presentation for future use

3. Using your own headset/microphone
Saving your breath: narrating and recording a PowerPoint presentation for future use
Left click the microphone icon: set volume
Right click the microphone icon and select Recording
devices
Select and enable the recording device
Setting up for recording

4. Using your own headset/microphone
Saving your breath: narrating and recording a PowerPoint presentation for future use
Open up the presentation
Click on the Slide Show tab to display its ribbon
Click on Record Slide Show
On the pop-up window, click the Start
Recording button, when ready
The presentation starts automatically
A timer/recording toolbar displays

5. Using your own headset/microphone
Saving your breath: narrating and recording a PowerPoint presentation for future use
A sound icon appears on each of the slides
To listen to the audio before saving the file,
click the From Beginning button
Save the file; choose Slideshow or PowerPoint
Audio can be deleted (Select > Delete)

6. Sennheiser microphone
Saving your breath: narrating and recording a PowerPoint presentation for future use
Left click the microphone icon: set volume
Right click the microphone icon and select Recording
devices
Select and enable the recording device
Setting up for recording

7. Sennheiser microphone
Saving your breath: narrating and recording a PowerPoint presentation for future use
Setting up for recording

8. Sennheiser microphone
Saving your breath: narrating and recording a PowerPoint presentation for future use
Setting up for recording
Insert batteries
Press and hold the ON/OFF button
Check that both the receiver and the
transmitter are on the same frequency

9. Sennheiser microphone
Saving your breath: narrating and recording a PowerPoint presentation for future use
Setting up for recording
On the transmitter, press SET button
Scroll to Sensitivity
Press the SET button again
Scroll to -12dB (or higher)
Press the SET button again
Press the ON/OFF button

10. Sennheiser microphone
Saving your breath: narrating and recording a PowerPoint presentation for future use
Setting up for recording
Insert the microphone jack into the transmitter
and fasten

11. Sennheiser microphone
Saving your breath: narrating and recording a PowerPoint presentation for future use
Setting up for recording
Insert the RF cable jack into the receiver and
fasten

12. Sennheiser microphone
Saving your breath: narrating and recording a PowerPoint presentation for future use
Setting up for recording
Plug the receiver into the computer’s
microphone jack

13. Sennheiser microphone
Saving your breath: narrating and recording a PowerPoint presentation for future use
Open up the presentation
Click on the Slide Show tab to display its ribbon
Click on Record Slide Show
On the pop-up window, click the Start
Recording button, when ready
The presentation starts automatically
A timer/recording toolbar displays

14. Sennheiser microphone
Saving your breath: narrating and recording a PowerPoint presentation for future use
A sound icon appears on each of the slides
To listen to the audio before saving the file,
click the From Beginning button
Save the file; choose Slideshow or PowerPoint
Audio can be deleted (Select > Delete)

15. Sennheiser microphone
Saving your breath: narrating and recording a PowerPoint presentation for future use
Press and hold the ON/OFF button of both the
transmitter and the receiver
Remove batteries

16. Camtasia
Saving your breath: narrating and recording a PowerPoint presentation for future use
2 Ways to record PowerPoint
From within PowerPoint
From within Camtasia

17. Camtasia
Saving your breath: narrating and recording a PowerPoint presentation for future use
Left click the microphone icon: set volume
Right click the microphone icon and select Recording
devices
Select and enable the recording device
Setting up for recording

18. Camtasia
Saving your breath: narrating and recording a PowerPoint presentation for future use
Setting up for recording
Begins recording your PowerPoint presentation
Records audio for the PowerPoint slides
Records camera with the PowerPoint presentation
Displays the Camera preview during recording
Recording options to adjust specific settings for recording
Opens Help topics for more information

19. Camtasia
Saving your breath: narrating and recording a PowerPoint presentation for future use
Click Record to launch the slideshow
Check the microphone input level. When ready, select
the Click to begin recording button or use the hotkeys
Control the PowerPoint presentation, as you normally
would, during the recording
Press Esc to stop recording
During recording

20. Camtasia
Saving your breath: narrating and recording a PowerPoint presentation for future use
After recording
At the end of the recording; choose whether to Stop
recording or Continue recording
If you choose to Continue recording, click the Stop
recording button in the PowerPoint recording toolbar
After you save the file, choose whether to:
• Produce your recording
or
• Edit your recording before producing it

21. Tips
• Get a decent quality recording device
• Record a demo
• Place microphone in the right position
• Relax, speak clearly and lower tone, don’t rush
• Set animations/transitions to advance on mouse click: avoids
truncating the narration
• Don’t go back to previous slides: audio will be overwritten
• If you have to go back to previous slides: timer/recording toolbar >
pause; resume recording when applicable
Saving your breath: narrating and recording a PowerPoint presentation for future use

22. Contact
Dr Marius Pienaar
Senior Instructional Designer
Office:
Student Administration Building, 1-24
Telephone:
+27 12 529 8323
Saving your breath: narrating and recording a PowerPoint presentation for future use