Kaltura Capture – Recording PowerPoints

Recording a PowerPoint slideshow with Capture helps viewers navigate your video more easily by clicking on specific slides or searching for text that appeared in your presentation. Slides are automatically turned into time-based chapters and indexed for search.

How it works

Set your inputs

• Make sure Screen is selected as one of your recording inputs.
• Optionally, add a second input like webcam or another screen, if you want to show something else alongside the presentation.

Recording a slideshow with audio

When recording a PowerPoint slideshow with audio, the Capture audio input must be enabled along with the system audio.

1. Launch your Kaltura Capture application.
2. Navigate to the Settings tab and set Record system audio to ‘Yes’.
3. Click Save.

Start Presenting

Click the big red button to start your recording.

Open the PowerPoint presentation in Slide Show mode and present your slides.

As you present:

• Each slide is captured as a chapter with a time stamp.
• Slide text is indexed, so it becomes searchable in the player.

End your recording by clicking the grey square, then click Yes, stop it.

View Chapters and Search Slides

Go to My Media.

On the My Media page, click the title or thumbnail to open the media page and play the video

On the media page, click the magnifying glass icon in the top-right corner of the player to view the chapters.

From here the list of slide-based chapters displays. You can use the search bar to find specific text in your slides. Click any chapter to jump to that point in the video.