Google Slides now helps you to document a presentation with inset video out of your webcam. Every recording could also be a most of half-hour lengthy. Now not do it’s essential to flip to a third-party software or internet assembly app, equivalent to Google Meet, to document a presentation. As a substitute, 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 Customary or Plus; Enterprise Starter, Necessities, Necessities Plus, Customary or Plus; and Schooling Plus editions.

Learn 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 digicam and microphone.

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

The system will swap to the display recording interface, with recording controls displayed beneath your slides. By default, the system will show your inset (picture-in-picture) video in medium measurement 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 regulate three settings:
4. 1. 1. Modify the placement of the inset (picture-in-picture) video body (Determine B). Choose the inset location icon, discovered to the speedy proper of the ahead slide (>) icon, to maneuver the placement to be any of the corners or middle space of a slide.

         

      2. Modify the dimensions of the inset video body. Choose the dimensions icon, discovered to the suitable of the video inset location icon, then select both a small, medium or massive video body measurement.
      3. Open speaker notes with the button discovered to the speedy left of the again slide (<) icon. This may show speaker notes on your reference whereas recording. (Ideally, you wouldn’t must consult with speaker notes, in order that you possibly can as an alternative look immediately on the digicam as you document.)

4. When you find yourself able to document, choose the big purple button on the backside of the display.
5. If prompted, chances are you’ll want to permit entry (Determine C) to the tab, together with the digicam and microphone. For instance, when recording on a Chromebook, chances are you’ll be prompted to “Permit docs.google.com to see this tab?” and “Additionally permit tab audio.” Choose Permit, if prompted.

In a couple of instances, chances are you’ll want to go to the next hyperlinks in Chrome to regulate permissions for:

1. 1. • Digicam: chrome://settings/content material/digicam.
      • Microphone: chrome://settings/content material/microphone.

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

7. To pause recording, press the big purple button on the backside of the display.
8. As soon as paused, chances are you’ll choose from two choices (Determine D):

After you choose Save to Drive, wait a bit till the system signifies the file has been saved. If you happen to go away or shut the tab too quickly, chances are you’ll lose your recording.

Learn how to choose inset video sizes and styles

On any slide, chances are you’ll 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. It’s possible you’ll reposition or resize the body: Choose the form, after which drag-and-drop it to maneuver it to a distinct 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 measurement 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 — until 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, measurement and placement of a video body.

Learn how to play, share and handle slide recordings

It’s possible you’ll entry slide recordings inside Google Slides on a pc. Nevertheless, not like recording, which requires you to make use of Google Chrome, chances are you’ll entry and play current recordings inside Google Slides on a wide range of fashionable 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, observe 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 product of the shows will show. Importantly, the system exhibits each the date and length 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 to switch entry settings and provides different individuals entry to the file.
  • Choose the Obtain icon within the down arrow above a tray icon within the higher proper space of the display to obtain the file.

4. Choose the three dot menu to the suitable 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 procure 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 information, which is a broadly supported internet video format. It’s possible you’ll simply open and play .webm information on each Apple and Android cell phones. Any recordings you make utilizing Google Slides must be simple to view on virtually any machine.

Does the power to document a presentation inside Google Slides streamline your workflow? What kinds of video shows will you create with this new functionality? Point out or message me on X (@awolber) to let me understand how you utilize display recording inside Google Slides.