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Narrate a PowerPoint Presentation (Quicktime)

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***Quicktime is recommended for PowerPoint presentation narrations that feature annotations or digital laser pointers.**

Office 365 - PowerPoint for Mac - creating a screen recording with audio

Since recording audio over slides in PowerPoint for Mac is not supported, this article details how to use QuickTime to do a screen recording of a PowerPoint presentation with audio recorded from the internal microphone.

  • Open QuickTime:

  • Go to the file menu and select “New Screen Recording”:

  • The Screen Recording window will open:

  • Click the down arrow next to the record button and select the Microphone as the Internal Microphone:

  • Click the record button:

  • Once the recording starts, start the PowerPoint presentation and speak as needed during the recording.
  • Once the recording is completed, click the stop button on the menu bar. A window with the recording will come up. Go to File and click Save and save the file to your Desktop.