PowerPoint Add webcam and microphone options to "Record Silde Show" experience
The narration recording function is good but the actual face of the presenter cannot be videoed via the webcam on mac. This is available on the windows version and it seems an odd function to leave off the mac version as this is so widely used. It is really complicated, time consuming and potentially expensive to get this to work on mac due to having to purchase additional hardware/software.
Simon Holmes
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Woo hoo! This one is also in progress and coming up via an update. Thanks for your patience. Remote learning has become incredibly important and we want to make sure you all have the right tools to succeed.
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Anonymous
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I agree with the comments here, it is extremely disappointing to buy the latest powerpoint software and not be able to use it as expected.
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SB
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I really could use this!!! COVID has forced online teaching and we would like to remain engaged. For the first time, I am considering buying a computer with Windows 10 just for this features so I can continue with a better teaching style then just audio.
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Kim
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This is an extremely significant gap/oversight in this product. I am surprised it has not been addressed yet. Please, I love PPT... but, I love my mac. Make this work! TIA!!
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Anonymous
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Please fix the laster pointer problem. Having a video floating on top the slide show would be a good add on if the video could be shown on demand.
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Anonymous
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I agree with "Anonymous"- this has become a high priority for those of us trying to continue education programs-- in my case I am teaching resident physicians.
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Anonymous
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With COVID19 pandemics, we have to give our lessons online. But while recording audio on ppt, we can not record laser pointer movements. Can you please fix that problem?
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Anonymous
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I need this too on my mac
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Anonymous
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Hi,
I just noticed that I can't record the laser pointer movements when preparing narrated slides in PowerPoint on my Mac. This is extremely disappointing and it looks like Microsoft only half finished their job on the new version of PowerPoint. In order to prepare online lectures, it is essential to have the option to record the pointer movements together with the voice. How can the market leading software not offer this option? I would strongly recommend to the Microsoft team to bring their Mac version of PowerPoint up to scratch by adding this basic option -
Anonymous
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With COVID-19 in the world now we are forced to lecture from home. If you are a Mac user, which many educators are, we need to be able to do Voice over our slides and use the Pen, Laser Pointer etc. We cannot do this now with the newer versions. What happened? Please add these features back into the program so we can teach our students.
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Paul
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This feature would be extremely beneficial to the academic and medical profession. Being able to record a presentation for a conference or meeting when travel is not possible, is a big plus. But not having the option to include video of speaker is a big negative. Speaker video personalizes the presentation and can often complement the slides.
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Alessio Maria Braccini
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Two things are currently missing and would be needed:
- Video recording along with audio through the webcam
- Registration controls (record, pause, stop) while recording presentation -
Maria Noel Groves
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You CAN do this via mac PPT using the "record slideshow" feature - it attached audio to each slide. Then, once you've done that, you can export it in .mp4 or .mov format so it becomes a video with audio. Problem is, when you're recording the audio in step 1, it's super glitchy and often drops the audio file. This has been a known bug in PPT, especially with macs, for more than 10 years. I'm creating a separate to try and encourage microsoft to fix these glitches, but I doubt it'll happen anytime soon.
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Corina
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https://powerpoint.uservoice.com/forums/288925-powerpoint-for-mac/suggestions/14811522-export-narrated-powerpoint-to-video This has already been voted on by 1002 people and ignored!!
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Anonymous
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I signed up for Office 365 with the intent to be able to record narration on presentations and be able to then convert to a video format to load onto the internet (specifically FB). The MOV & MP4 options are the only options I am given on my MAC, and the presentation is converted to video wonderfully BUT with NO audio. I need the narrated audio or it is useless to me. This whole process has been incredibly frustrating.
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Anonymous
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Add "Recording Tab" to the ribbon for Mac users.
Since Office Mix has ended, the Recording feature took over and is a great tool for stepping up one's presentation. Being a teacher, I am a fan of the flipped classroom method. It helps me focus my attention to those students that need the extra support.
I am an avid Mac user and would like to see the Recording function available. I truly feel that this tool is valuable in the classroom and should be there for all teachers to use.
Please consider making this happen in a future update.
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C Myatt
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It would be helpful to videotape a PowerPoint presentation (video and audio) with a MacBook Air. PC's allow this, but evidently it is not compatible with Mac's. I can only do an audio recording with my slides. Will this be something worked on for the future? Thank you.
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Xian Ard
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Make the Windows-only feature of screen capture available on Macs https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Record-your-screen-in-PowerPoint-0b4c3f65-534c-4cf1-9c59-402b6e9d79d0#OfficeVersion=2016
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Saroj Bardewa
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Surprisingly, the screen capture features are missing in the student version 2016. Having screen capture tools would make it extremely handy to take screenshots, and add them in a ppt.
Thanks!
