Open your slides, click Screen and share the slideshow, then press Record and talk through it with your camera in the corner. Afterwards, trim the takes and save an MP4, all in your browser at no cost.
Start a new scene from one source or combine screen and camera.
A recorded presentation works best when viewers can see the slides and the speaker at once. With recorder.video you share the window or tab your slides are in, your webcam sits over them or beside them, and your microphone carries the narration. It works with PowerPoint, Keynote, Google Slides or any other slide app, because it records what’s on screen rather than plugging into the app.
Use it for lectures, class assignments, conference talks, sales pitches and training. This guide covers getting the slides ready, picking a layout, recording in short sections, and putting the final video together.
Get your slides into a window or browser tab you can share, such as Google Slides in its own tab or PowerPoint in Reading View.
Click Screen and pick the tab or window that holds the slideshow. If your slides fill a second display, share that whole screen instead.
Your webcam shows as a bubble over the slides. Drag it to a corner the slides leave empty, or open Layout and choose Presenter to put it beside them.
Press R, wait for the countdown, and present. Press R again at the end of the section; every recording becomes its own scene.
Trim the start and end of each scene, drag the scenes into order, and click Export all to join them into a single video.
The cleanest recording comes from sharing only the slides, not your whole desktop. Viewers then never see your notes, other windows or pop-up alerts.
Open the deck in Chrome or Edge and share that tab in recorder.video. Start recording, go back to the tab and click Slideshow. With the tab audio box ticked, any video or sound in your slides is captured as well. Choose Presenter view from the Slideshow menu if you want your speaker notes in a separate window that stays out of the recording.
To keep PowerPoint in a window, switch to Reading View from the View tab and share that window. On Windows you can also make the slide show itself play in a window under Slide Show > Set Up Slide Show > Browsed by an individual (window).
Keynote’s usual slideshow fills the screen, so share the entire display it plays on. With two displays, play the slides on one, keep recorder.video on the other, and share only the slide display.
With only one screen, share the entire screen and start recording before you launch the slideshow. Close chat apps and turn on do not disturb first, because anything that pops up ends up in the video.
PowerPoint and Keynote can both show presenter notes on one display and the slides on another. Sharing just the slide display keeps your notes private.
Open Layout before you record to decide where your camera goes:
PowerPoint, Keynote and Google Slides all start new decks at 16:9, so the Landscape size under Size keeps slides edge to edge. Turn on background blur in the camera menu if the room behind you is busy.
Settle on the layout before you press Record, because the finished video uses the layout it was recorded with. Each scene also keeps the screen and camera as separate tracks in its Source tracks ZIP, in case you want to rearrange them in an editor later.
Your microphone records along with the slides. Pick it in the mic menu and say a line to see the meter on the mic button jump. A headset or USB mic close to your mouth sounds clearer than a laptop mic across the desk.
Press B to pick up the pen and draw over the slides in the recorder’s preview. The marks go into the recording, never onto your slide file or desktop. Choose the pen or the highlighter and one of four colors; lines fade after a few seconds unless you switch that off, and X clears them.
Because the pen works on the preview, switch to the recorder.video tab when you want to circle something, then switch back to advance the slides. The recording keeps running while you move between them.
In Chrome and Edge, a small floating window shows your camera with Record, Pause and Stop buttons, so you can control the take without leaving your slides. The Picture-in-Picture switch in Settings turns it off.
Working from a script? Paste it into the Prompter and it scrolls over the preview without being drawn into the video. If you share your entire screen, keep the prompter on a display you aren’t sharing.
Takes line up in the Scenes list. Select one and drag the yellow handles, or play it with K and press I and O to set the start and end at the playhead. The original stays intact, so you can loosen a trim later.
When every section is ready, drag the scenes into order and click Export all. It joins them into one video with your trims applied. Joining replays the scenes to build the new file, so a long talk takes a while to export.
You can still download a single scene from its menu: MP4 or WebM, audio only for a podcast version, or a GIF of up to 20 seconds as a teaser.
Captions help people who watch with the sound off. recorder.video can transcribe each scene on your computer and either burn the captions in or save them as an .srt or .vtt file, after a one-time model download of about 75 MB. Check names and technical terms, which automatic transcripts often get wrong.
Slide apps have recorders of their own. PowerPoint’s Record feature captures narration slide by slide, with your camera in recent Microsoft 365 versions, and exports the result as a video. Keynote can record a narrated slideshow from the Play menu and export it as a movie.
Those work well inside one app. recorder.video suits you when you want the same setup across apps, a deck that lives in Google Slides, a drawing pen, or a choice of camera layouts.
Open the deck in Reading View or a windowed slide show, share that window in recorder.video, and press Record. Your camera floats in a corner of the slides while the mic picks up what you say. Download an MP4 when you’re done.
Yes. Share the Google Slides tab, keep your camera on, and start the slideshow in that tab once you’ve pressed Record. Embedded videos and music come through too, as long as tab audio is ticked.
Play the slideshow on a display you share in recorder.video, ideally a second screen so your presenter notes stay out of the recording. Your camera appears as a bubble or beside the slides, depending on the layout.
Yes. Turn on Draw (shortcut B) and mark up the preview with a pen or highlighter. The marks become part of the video but never touch your slide file, and they can fade on their own after a few seconds.
Yes. Share only the slideshow tab, window or display, and keep your notes in a presenter view on another window or screen. You can also paste a script into the Prompter, which shows on your screen but stays out of the video.
recorder.video doesn’t limit the length. Long talks take up browser storage, so record in sections, check free space in Settings, and delete scenes once you’ve downloaded them.
Put the scenes in running order by dragging them in the Scenes list, then press Export all. You get a single video of every scene back to back.
Use Landscape 16:9 to match standard slides. For a vertical clip, choose 9:16 with the Stacked layout so your slides sit above your camera.