Recordings can be paused by pressing F11 again or stopped by pressing F10. Please see the short video.Īs with PowerPoint, a three-second countdown takes place before the recording begins. To start a recording, you can either click the record button (the red circle) or press F11. Users can also choose whether to include audio with the recording and whether mouse clicks that take place in the recording should be animated (blue rings appear around the cursor when the mouse is clicked). The advanced settings allow users to specify a filename and location as well as the format and frame rate of the recording. The basic control panel will appear, with buttons to start and stop recording, a drop-down menu to choose which window is to be recorded (use Fullscreen to capture the whole screen, choose an option from the list of windows currently active or choose Custom to select the area to be recorded manually) and a collapsed settings menu offering more advanced features: To access ScreenCap: Start Menu > All Programs > Corel VideoStudio X9 > Corel ScreenCap X9. Please see the ScreenCap X9 offers an alternative solution to PowerPoint and one that allows users to record and save screen capture clips as standalone files without having to follow the additional steps needed in PowerPoint to save the clip as a separate file. To save the clip as a separate file, right-click on it and select Save Media As in the option menu that appears. When you stop the recording, the video clip you have created will appear in the PowerPoint slide currently open.
A three-second countdown will then begin with an instruction on how to stop the recording (Windows logo key + Shift + Q):
Here is a short screencast to show you how to start the screencast for PowerPoint. (To record the whole screen, you should drag the red dashed box from the top-left corner of the screen to the bottom-right corner of the screen.) Once an area has been selected, you can begin the recording by clicking Record: If either of the Audio or Record Pointer buttons is highlighted in peach (as Record Pointer is in the image above), this means that those features will be included in your screen recording.īefore you can begin the recording, you need to select the area of the screen you wish to record by clicking Select Area and dragging the red dashed box over the area to be recorded. Start by selecting the INSERT tab in the menu toolbar at the top of the screen and then clicking the Screen Recording icon at the far right end of the toolbar: PowerPoint 2013Ĭreating a screen recording in PowerPoint 2013 is fairly straightforward.
Here is a short screencast to show you how to download Corel ScreenCap X9 from the Software Center.
(To access the Software Center: Start Menu > All Programs > Install Applications, highlight VideoStudio X9 and click Install. Screen capture clips can be recorded in either PowerPoint 2013 or an application called Corel ScreenCap X9, which can be accessed by installing VideoStudio X9 from the Software Center. The advantage of using screen capture clips (as opposed to a live demonstration) is that it provides a lasting visual step-by-step demonstration of each process that colleagues can access independently, as and when needed, at a pace that suits them.
One way around this is to illustrate each step with a static screen shot however, this can lead to guidance documents being padded out by a lengthy series of similar images and a few lines of text that still fall short of demonstrating how a process is carried out.Īnother solution is to record video clips of the actions taken on screen when carrying out a task (known as ‘screen capture’ or ‘screencasting’) and including those clips alongside the written instructions. Many of our processes are quite technical in nature, which often makes it difficult to find the right words to explain how to perform particular actions in concise, uncomplicated terms that are easy for all to follow.
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