# How to record a slide presentation

> Recording slides with narration, and how to avoid capturing your presenter notes.

Source: https://www.screen-recording-software.com/guides/record-a-presentation
Category: Tasks

The main risk when recording slides is accidentally recording the presenter view, complete with your notes and the next-slide preview.

## With two screens

Start the presentation, then record the display showing the slides rather than the one showing presenter view. In the picker, Entire Screen lists each monitor separately.

## With one screen

Use your presentation tool’s option to present in a window rather than full screen, then record that window. In Google Slides this is the "Presenter view" toggle; in PowerPoint it is Reading View.

## Narration

Turn on the microphone and test it before you begin. Pause between sections rather than stopping — pausing keeps everything in one continuous file.

Leave a beat of silence after each slide transition. It gives you a clean point to cut later, and stops the last word of one slide running into the first of the next.