Recording audio for PowerPoint slides and exporting as a video (Mac)

One of the simplest ways of recording a video of your PowerPoint slides is to insert audio into each slide and then have that audio automatically play when viewed. You can then export the slides and audio as a video. Here is how to do that.

1. Make sure you have the PowerPoint app installed on your Mac. If you want to know how to do that for free, read these instructions.
2. Open or create a presentation and go to the first slide. Click on Insert in the menu bar.​
3. Click on Audio and then Record Audio.​
4. You might need to give permission for PowerPoint to use your microphone. Click OK
5. Click on the record button to start recording
6. Click on the stop button to stop recording
7. Click on Insert to add the audio to your slide
8. Click and drag the speaker icon to somewhere on the slide.​
9. Click on Playback in the menu bar and then click on the dropdown menu next to Start and choose Automatically.​
10. Once you have recorded audio for all of your slides, click on File and then Export.
11. Next to File Format, choose MP4. Next to Quality, choose Internet Quality. Click on Export.
12. Make sure you save your presentation as well. If you save it to your Douglas College OneDrive account, you can also share that presentation.

Here is an example of a shared PowerPoint presentation with audio recording for each slide. It also shows you visual steps of what is shared above.