Find out how to Document a Video Presentation With Google Slides

Google Slides now permits you to report a presentation with inset video out of your webcam. Every recording could also be a most of half-hour lengthy. Now not do it is advisable flip to a third-party software or internet assembly app, similar to Google Meet, to report a presentation. As an alternative, you can begin and end the duty with nothing greater than Google Slides on a laptop computer.

As of March 2024, slide recordings could also be made by clients who use Google Workspace Enterprise Normal or Plus; Enterprise Starter, Necessities, Necessities Plus, Normal or Plus; and Schooling Plus editions.

Find out how to make a primary slide recording in Google Slides

To create a slide recording, you’ll want to make use of Google Chrome on a pc that has a digital camera and microphone.

1. Go to Google Slides and open your presentation.
2. Choose the Rec button within the higher proper space, then choose the Document new video button (Determine A).

The system will change to the display screen recording interface, with recording controls displayed beneath your slides. By default, the system will show your inset (picture-in-picture) video in medium dimension within the decrease proper nook of a slide, since this portion of a slide is commonly empty.

3. Optionally, earlier than you begin recording, you may modify three settings:
4. 1. 1. Modify the situation of the inset (picture-in-picture) video body (Determine B). Choose the inset location icon, discovered to the quick proper of the ahead slide (>) icon, to maneuver the situation to be any of the corners or middle space of a slide.

         

      2. Modify the scale of the inset video body. Choose the scale icon, discovered to the fitting of the video inset location icon, then select both a small, medium or massive video body dimension.
      3. Open speaker notes with the button discovered to the quick left of the again slide (<) icon. This may show speaker notes on your reference whereas recording. (Ideally, you wouldn’t must seek advice from speaker notes, in order that you possibly can as an alternative look immediately on the digital camera as you report.)

4. If you end up able to report, choose the big crimson button on the backside of the display screen.
5. If prompted, you could want to permit entry (Determine C) to the tab, together with the digital camera and microphone. For instance, when recording on a Chromebook, you could be prompted to “Enable docs.google.com to see this tab?” and “Additionally permit tab audio.” Choose Enable, if prompted.

In just a few instances, you could want to go to the next hyperlinks in Chrome to regulate permissions for:

1. 1. • Digital camera: chrome://settings/content material/digital camera.
      • Microphone: chrome://settings/content material/microphone.

6. A short countdown ought to show (i.e., 3, 2, 1), then your recording will start. Document your video, advancing your slides as desired.

7. To pause recording, press the big crimson button on the backside of the display screen.
8. As soon as paused, you could choose from two choices (Determine D):

After you choose Save to Drive, wait a bit till the system signifies the file has been saved. Should you go away or shut the tab too quickly, you could lose your recording.

Find out how to choose inset video styles and sizes

On any slide, you could use the Insert | Speaker highlight choice (Determine E), then choose a formed video body. This inserts a body the place the speaker video will show on that slide. Chances are you’ll reposition or resize the body: Choose the form, after which drag-and-drop it to maneuver it to a special place in your slide, or choose a nook and drag it to resize it.

Whenever you insert a speaker highlight form, that supplants the place and dimension you might need chosen on a primary recording. In different phrases, the speaker’s video will show in one of many corners or the middle, and within the small, medium or massive form chosen with the settings — except you’ve inserted a speaker highlight form on a web page (Determine F). Use the speaker highlight choice to convey essentially the most polished skilled impact, because it permits exact management over the form, dimension and site of a video body.

Find out how to play, share and handle slide recordings

Chances are you’ll entry slide recordings inside Google Slides on a pc. Nevertheless, not like recording, which requires you to make use of Google Chrome, you could entry and play present recordings inside Google Slides on a wide range of trendy browsers. For instance, the next steps all work once you use Google Slides inside both Google Chrome or Apple’s Safari browser.

To entry recordings related to a Google Slides presentation, comply with these steps.

1. Go to Google Slides and open your presentation.
2. Choose the Rec button within the higher proper space. The recordings you’ve fabricated from the displays will show. Importantly, the system reveals each the date and period of every recording.
3. To view, share or obtain a recording, click on anyplace on the playback icon or title of the recording (Determine G). It ought to open in a brand new tab. Inside this tab, you may:

• • Choose the Play icon within the middle of the video picture to play the recording.
  • Choose the Share button within the higher proper nook of the display screen to switch entry settings and provides different folks entry to the file.
  • Choose the Obtain icon within the down arrow above a tray icon within the higher proper space of the display screen to obtain the file.

4. Choose the three dot menu to the fitting of a listed recording to:

• • Rename a file one thing aside from the default recording title.
  • Take away a beforehand made recording you not want.
  • Copy hyperlink and acquire the Google Drive URL for the recorded file.

All Google Slides recordings are saved in a Slides recordings folder on Google Drive. The recordings are saved as .webm recordsdata, which is a extensively supported internet video format. Chances are you’ll simply open and play .webm recordsdata on each Apple and Android cell phones. Any recordings you make utilizing Google Slides ought to be straightforward to view on nearly any machine.

Does the power to report a presentation inside Google Slides streamline your workflow? What types of video displays will you create with this new functionality? Point out or message me on X (@awolber) to let me know the way you employ display screen recording inside Google Slides.