In Studio you can create a video from your Powerpoint-presentation by bringing up the ppt-presentation on your screen, and make a screen recording. Here, you will first see a video demonstration (thanks to Per Warfvinge at LTH!), and below it there's a step-by-step guide of how to proceed.

Step-by-step guide: create video from a ppt-presentation

Click on the Studio symbol in the green global navigation to the left. You get to My Library, where your videos are shown. If you do not have any videos yet, the page is empty.

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In the upper right-hand corner, you see three buttons: Record, Add, och Search.

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To make a screen recording, click Record. You can choose to record only your screen, only your webcam, or both. To make a screen recording from your ppt, choose Screen Capture. In the window coming up, click Open link (down to the right).

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If it is your first time using Studio, you'll be asked to download the application. Choose Download. You only need to do this once. Next time, just click Open link.

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A new window pops up:

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Here, you can manage settings by clicking the blue cog (1). You can choose what type of recording you want to make (2), the screen size (3), and recording volume (4).

NB! Sometimes, the recording monitor hides under the ppt-presentation you want to record. It can be difficult to find it again if you do not know the hot key. The easiest work-around is to record your ppt-presentation in a part of the window instead of fullscreen. In (3), choose active window. You can adjust the frame popping up to fit the size of your ppt-presentation.

To change preferences, choose Preferences (5). Try it out some time, but you can just go ahead with your screen recording without changing the preferences. The preferences you can change include the pause hotkey, webcam big hotkey, mark timeline hotkey, count down, control bar, webcam preview, fullscreen rec controls, reposition cursor on resume, and keyboard controls while paused.

If you want to draw and zoom, choose the pen symbol (6). There are different lines, arrows, boxes, highlights, speech bubbles, colours, etc.

To start your screen recording, click the red Rec button (7). A count down starts, and after 3 seconds the recording starts.

Take up your ppt-presentation on your screen. Go through it and talk to every slide the way you would in class. Everything on your screen is recorded.

When you are done, click Pause and then Done.

NB! Pause does not mean you can pause and get back to your recording later - the contact will have been broken by then. It is therefore important to click Done.

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You now see a window where you can name your video, and do some editing before loading it up. To edit, choose Edit.

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There are quite a few editing possibilities before uploading your video. The most useful is trimming the beginning and the end - a good way to get rid of some clutter. Other editing features are adding a text box; inserting a new or an existing video; record a voice-over; replace part of the video by a new recording; slow down or speed up the video; and more.

When you are done, click Done down to the right.

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Your video will upload to My Library in Studio.

Related: Problems finding your screen recording?

Here's how to show your video in a course: Publish video from Studio into Canvas.

For questions, contact digital@education.lu.se