omg, didnt expect this coming. i love how u made it effortlessly understandable even without some special skills to access paid video conferences or stuff. this was soo helpful, thanks!
Super helpful! I'm an author and a speaker and during COVID pandemic my presentations have all been on Zoom. I've struggled with hoping they can see body language, etc in small window. No more! Thank you so much!
Hi Dave, Thanks for your very helpful video. Two minor points that I think could make your future presentations more effective would be: 1) raise your laptop higher so you aren't looking down into it, using a remote keyboard for input; and 2) Adjust your background and perhaps use the soft focus feature so it's less distracting, and change the lighting to eliminate the shining spots underneath your eyes. Best wishes for more videos! Tim from Taiwan
I'm glad you found the video helpful. This was one of my videos done early in the pandemic before I was able to upgrade my equipment. You will see in my current videos that I have improved the areas you commented on. I have a list of my current equipment on my Amazon store at amazon.com/shop/thinkoutsidetheslide.com.
omg u have no idea how long ive been searching for a way to do this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! especially because im left with a super old computer, an okay-sh webcam and i'm using a PC. i personally feel like with virtual meetings and whatnot, especially if i have to do a 3hr lecture making it feel like im "there" by making my screen bigger is helpful albeit a little narcissistic :P anyway THANK YOU SO MUCH. omg this is amazing.
@@ThinkOutsideTheSlide Thanks for acknowledging, much appreciated. I am unable to see the 'Task Bar' inside the Team, where the 'Share' button is there, besides , the ppts or the Desktop 'screens' too do not appear in the Team screen. I have legal Office 365 and have downloaded 'Team' as well. arkundapur@gmail.com
Thank you for this tutorial! I work as a sign language interpreter and I need to be in a larger view on screen with the presenter and sometimes with a presenter and powerpoint. What do you suggest for that situation? Thanks!
I have not faced this situation before. One option to try in both Teams and Zoom is to see if using the Spotlight feature for the presenter and yourself will work. Spotlight allows attendees to see that video feed (or feeds) larger than other feeds even if content is being shared. Try this and see if it might work well enough. For Zoom I did some research and found two articles that may be helpful. The first describes using Zoom's interpretation feature to set up an ASL interpreter: languagers.com/how-to-add-remote-asl-interpreters-on-zoom-conference-meetings/. The second is from Zoom and explains more about this feature: support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/360034919791-Translating-your-meeting-or-webinar. I hope those help if spotlighting doesn't work well enough.
You would have to have your notes printed as a PDF and manually scroll through the document as you present. The Reading View is the only PowerPoint window open using the method in this video. If you use Teams you can use the Presenter modes to put you video beside your slides as I explain in this article: www.thinkoutsidetheslide.com/use-the-standout-presenter-mode-in-a-teams-meeting-to-put-the-presenters-video-on-top-of-shared-content/
Unfortunately there isn't a way to do this with Presenter View. If you have two screens and you want to see your speaking notes, you can use the technique in this video to share one screen in the meeting and scroll through a PDF of the Notes pages from PowerPoint on the other screen. I have an article that has options for seeing your speaking notes when not using Presenter View at www.thinkoutsidetheslide.com/seeing-your-speaking-notes-in-powerpoint-while-presenting-slides-in-microsoft-teams-if-you-only-have-one-screen/
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Thanks so much for this! i think it is working except im still waiting on the recording from teams to see if my voice has really been recorded.. I have a feeling it wont if i dont have my mic on in teams (i.e. just turning on the "facetime" app on mac will help with the voice too?)?
The mic in Teams will be picking up your audio so you have to set it to unmute and set to your preferred mic (if you have more than one). The technique in this video only applies to the visual.
This was extremely helpful. My laptop camera app let me switch to my nicer webcam. I was able to use my second monitor to check the Teams app and watch the chat and participant feature. I could not figure out how to see my presenter notes on the second monitor. Is that because PowerPoint is in Browsed by individual window? Thanks for your help!
When using the Browsed by an Individual mode, also called Reading View, you cannot see your notes like you can in Presenter View. Since you have a second monitor, you can print the Notes pages from PowerPoint as a PDF and display them on the second screen so you can refer to your notes as you present. This article explains more about this approach: www.thinkoutsidetheslide.com/seeing-your-speaking-notes-in-powerpoint-while-presenting-slides-in-microsoft-teams-if-you-only-have-one-screen/
@@ThinkOutsideTheSlide Thank you for passing this along. I'm a presentation skills coach, so I rarely use notes, but this is helpful information. Your technical knowledge is very practical!
That was excellent!!! It works also when you want to record your video, easily can you do it with record zoom option. I didn't know however, that you can use windowed powerpoint presentation. Thank you very much.
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If you record the meeting in Teams or Zoom, the platform will record whatever you share in the meeting, so yes, it will record both the video and your slides.
I'm glad the video was helpful. Teams has recently introduced Presenter Modes which include side-by-side mode which is an alternative built in to Teams (article here: www.thinkoutsidetheslide.com/use-the-standout-presenter-mode-in-a-teams-meeting-to-put-the-presenters-video-on-top-of-shared-content/). In Zoom you can use multi-window select now to also have your video beside your slides (article here: www.thinkoutsidetheslide.com/use-zoom-multi-window-sharing-to-present-your-powerpoint-slides-beside-your-video-windows-mac/)
This is great, I'm trying to make this happen on the MS Teams mobile app, is that possible at all? I can use my desktop but the desktop doesn't have a mic, so I'm stuck to using the app. Any suggestions?
No, this is not possible on the Teams mobile app. You may want to consider adding a mic to your desktop. One option is to plug the earbuds from your phone (or an old pair lying around) into the headphone jack of the desktop. Another option is to use a USB adapter that allows you to plug the earbuds into the adapter (here's the one I use: amzn.to/31m2U9h). Once the earbuds are connected to the desktop, use the mic on the earbuds in Teams. I hope that helps.
@@ThinkOutsideTheSlide I tried it, unfortunately that didnt work out. I think I can sort another laptop or even make second Microsoft account and use a con-call. thanks for your help!
I'm glad you found the video helpful. You may also want to try the Presenter modes in Teams that allow you to put your video beside your shared content. I have a video on the new updates at th-cam.com/video/vz8g4jD5kSY/w-d-xo.html
Thank you! This is was perfect! The only thing is when I set it to browse individual window on the ppt slide, I cannot use the pen anymore, is there anyway around that? TIA
Glad the video was helpful! In Reading View (playing the slides in a window) there is no way to use the laser or drawing tools. You may be able to use these tools from the meeting platform if it offers them.
This is really clear thank you. Maybe you can help me... I’m helping host a family event where different people will speak for a few minutes each. While they are speaking it would be nice to show a photo or possibly a few photos on a slide, however we don’t want to share the photo as the whole screen with only their face very tiny for those who have the speaker view open. The people speaking and other viewers may not be very adept at zoom so I want to be able to organise the whole thing smoothly from my screen. The only thing I could think is that I could create something similar to what you have created here, except instead of powerpoint and camera I would use powerpoint zoom. Then i could spotlight the speaker, and then share my entire screen... this is the only solution I can think of. But I just wonder if there will be too much delay with their voice coming from them to me and then back to everyone else.
I am pretty sure there will be too much of a delay with the video portion going to you and back out compared to the voice. I have seen this happen recently and it was very noticeable and a more complex setup with other equipment was needed.
Nice solution . Thank you! Question: I am using "presenters view" on Mac with two monitors. I want to minimize or adjust the size of the presenters window but Mac doesn't show the buttons to mininimize. Is that fine with Mac? it does work on windows. I would appreciate your comments. thanks
You have discovered one of the differences between Presenter View on the Mac and on Windows. The Mac version does not allow you to take the Presenter View window out of full screen mode while the Windows version does allow it. This has been a request to Microsoft for some time and hopefully it will change in the future.
That does happen sometimes and in my experience it is not consistent so it can be hard to figure out how to resolve it. It can sometimes be a function of the computer or the network. One thing that helps on Zoom is enabling the option to optimize for sharing video. Both Zoom and Teams will be introducing features that place the presenter's video in front of the slides but I haven't been able to test it so don't know if it has the same issue or not.
If you can see the Teams meeting controls and have permission to record the meeting, you should be able to start the recording. You will have to click on the border of the PowerPoint window to return focus to the slides so you can continue your presentation.
Thank you for this informative presentation. The clean desktop look is really a bonus. How could a group project with three sequential presenters use this? At the end of this PPt presentation, class participation is expected. Class size is approximately 16 persons. Any ideas?
Each person in the group would have to set up and share their screen using the approach in the video. There is no way to switch the video being shown on one person's computer. Once the presentation is over, stop sharing the screen and you can then see everyone in the meeting and have a discussion. I hope that helps.
As long as the document camera is recognized by the operating system as a camera, you can use it as your camera in Zoom or Teams. Then you can use this technique to have your document camera beside your slides.
Thanks for this Dave, very helpful. It baffles me that Zoom, Teams, Webex etc have not yet designed their software to allow people to record their presentations with a larger video! I would like to get rid of the the horizontal bars at the top and bottom of the powerpoint window - where it says 'PowerPoint Slide Show' and the slide number at the bottom. Any suggestions on how to do that?
Glad you found the video helpful. Zoom and Teams have announced that they will be giving presenters more options for arranging their slides and video but until we see those features released we won't know what they look like. There is no way to get rid of the top and bottom bars, they are part of Reading view. One way to reduce focus on them is to change your Office Theme to Dark Grey and then the bars are a medium grey instead of white.
@@ThinkOutsideTheSlide I actually found another solution using zoom. Instead of sharing my whole desktop (I actually didn't see any option to do that, although I thought you could) I shared a 'portion of my screen'. This was under the 'advanced' tab in the screen share dialogue box. That then allows you to move and reshape a rectangular window (green border) and the final recording only shows what is within this window. A very small irritation I have is that the hotkey for starting and stopping record in zoom (Alt + R) doesn't seem to work when sharing this way - so I'll just have to edit out the first and last few seconds of my recordings while I search for the control to click! Thanks
Yes, that will certainly work. To make Zoom hotkeys universal, go into the Zoom settings and go to the section for shortcut keys. There you can check a box to make that hotkey universal so it is recognized by Zoom even if you are in another program.
You can see the chat in Teams if you open the chat pane and that will be there even when you share your slides. You may need to restore the window because it minimizes the window when you share content. If meeting participants have their cameras on, you will see some of them but not all of them in Teams. The new Teams meeting experience that is rolling out does improve this.
Zoom is different. It allows you to share just a portion of your screen so you can put the chat and videos in another part of the screen and still see them. It is easier than Teams in that respect. If you have a second screen, you can set Zoom to use dual screen mode and you have more flexibility as to where the videos and chat can be placed.
The slides are being displayed in Reading View, which displays the slide show in the PowerPoint window. That allows you to size them and position them on your desktop. I have a video on Reading View at th-cam.com/video/NFQ9EMlP3jI/w-d-xo.html
Thank you for this. I'm working in Zoom, not Teams. I still can't get the presenter's image to fill half the screen. The presentation side is fine. What have I misunderstood?
In both Zoom and Teams you need to stop sharing your camera in the meeting platform before starting the Camera app in Windows. The camera can only feed one app at a a time. I hope that helps.
Blurring the background would have to be a function of the Camera app or whichever app you are using to display your video. This is not a current feature of the Camera app and I am not aware of an app that would do that.
I cover a number of ways to see your notes while showing the audience your slides in this article: www.thinkoutsidetheslide.com/seeing-your-speaking-notes-in-powerpoint-while-presenting-slides-in-microsoft-teams-if-you-only-have-one-screen/. I hope one of them will work for you.
In some quick testing in Google Slides it appears that if you present in Presenter View mode the slides are shown in the browser window, not full screen. I would think that you could then move the browser window beside the Camera app.
How smooth it appears can depend on a number of factors, such as how fast you computer is, how high resolution the screen is that you are sharing (higher resolution screens force the meeting platform to distribute more data), and the internet speed of your audience members. If you are using Zoom, you can try turning on the option of sharing video content which increases the frame rate Zoom uses to share the screen.
I started using this mode and it's excellent. In teams if I browse and share it removes my ppt controls.. Like I want to jump slide.. I can only move slides progressively Also it starts always from slide one.. Anyway, I can start at the slide I want in browse share?
Using the Slide Show in a window is known as Reading View and it has all the animation and transition features but it does not have all of the features of full screen Slide Show. You should be able to start at the current slide by pressing Shift+F5 or using the From Current Slide button on the Slide Show ribbon. To jump to another slide, right-click in the window and click on Go To Slide. This brings up a scrollable list of all the slides in the file listing the text in the title placeholder of the slide. You can then click on the slide you want to jump to. Hope that helps.
Thanks for sharing this tip. For some who have corporate laptops that IT controls, they may not be able to install other software and they will have to use the Camera app.
I have an online course on recording your presentation which includes recording your video beside your slides like you see in this video. The course details are at thinkoutsidetheslide.teachable.com/p/advanced-recording-of-narrated-powerpoint-slides-for-a-flipped-classroom
Great presentation and lives up entirely to the name of your channel ...ThinkOutsideThe Slide. Really neat thinking. Does Zoom have a slide show view option like Webinar Jam. I have used that to run my slides on WJ and then used screen split in Win 10 to run my PPT in the Notes mode on the side. Not sure if one can do that in Zoom...any idea on that?
Thanks for the kind comments on the video. I am not familiar with Webinar Jam so I am not sure what their options are. In Zoom, you would be able to see your speaking notes on the screen as you are showing the slides to your audience by using Method 2 in this article: www.thinkoutsidetheslide.com/seeing-your-speaking-notes-in-powerpoint-while-presenting-slides-in-a-zoom-meeting-if-you-only-have-one-screen/. If you have a large enough screen, you could combine that method with the technique in this video to have your video, slides, and speaking notes all on the screen at the same time.
ThinkOutsideTheSlide.com Dave, I absolutely love your videos and the solutions that you have to make webinars and online meetings so effortless. I followed the link that you had put in your comments above and was floored especially by the way of conducting a Zoom meeting on a single screen with presenter view and with all notes available. That was perfect. I dare say you are bringing back the romance of making presentations.
I don't have a Mac here so I can't say for sure. I would think the Photo Booth app on the Mac would be the substitute for the Windows Camera app. I think the dock on a Mac can auto-hide like the Windows taskbar. I am not sure how to hide desktop icons on the Mac. I would think you could then adapt the rest of the steps to set up the screen arrangement and share the screen in Teams or Zoom. If you do try it out, let me know how it works!
I just posted an article with instructions on using this technique on a Mac. The article is at www.thinkoutsidetheslide.com/present-with-your-video-beside-your-powerpoint-slides-in-microsoft-teams-or-zoom-on-a-mac/
When you share your screen, the audience sees whatever is on the screen, including your video and slides. As a participant in Zoom or Teams, pinning someone only makes their video larger on your own screen. As the presenter if you spotlight your own video in Teams it replaces what you are sharing on Windows or Mac or puts your cropped video beside the slides on an iPad (this video explains how to use Spotlight in Teams when sharing slides: th-cam.com/video/CKHuDpnaOxA/w-d-xo.html). Zoom does not allow spotlighting while sharing content. Both Teams and Zoom are introducing new options for videos beside slides later this year so check for the updates as they get released.
Both Zoom and Teams are introducing features that allow you to put your video in front of your slides. So something like this is coming to both platforms.
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I just spent forever trying to find EXACTLY this. THANK YOU!!
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omg, didnt expect this coming. i love how u made it effortlessly understandable even without some special skills to access paid video conferences or stuff. this was soo helpful, thanks!
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You’re a LIFESAVER!!! Thank you! I have a huge presentation tomorrow & now I’m set to go!
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This was a perfect tutorial! Very easy to follow and worked well. Thank you for sharing!
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Watched for first time. Very impressed
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Super helpful! I'm an author and a speaker and during COVID pandemic my presentations have all been on Zoom. I've struggled with hoping they can see body language, etc in small window. No more! Thank you so much!
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Very helpful no nonsense explanation!
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Body language is important -something these tech companies have neglected just to save space and cost. Thank you!
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I agree with Alex!! I've been trying to find EXACTLY this for weeks!! Thank you!!!
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Thank you so much! I almost bought needless extra software am so glad I found your video first.
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Hi Dave,
Thanks for your very helpful video.
Two minor points that I think could make your future presentations more effective would be: 1) raise your laptop higher so you aren't looking down into it, using a remote keyboard for input; and 2) Adjust your background and perhaps use the soft focus feature so it's less distracting, and change the lighting to eliminate the shining spots underneath your eyes.
Best wishes for more videos!
Tim from Taiwan
I'm glad you found the video helpful. This was one of my videos done early in the pandemic before I was able to upgrade my equipment. You will see in my current videos that I have improved the areas you commented on. I have a list of my current equipment on my Amazon store at amazon.com/shop/thinkoutsidetheslide.com.
not what I was looking for. This was a good basic setup. Thanks for sharing
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nice video! I'm doing this for my presentation tonight!
I'm glad you found the video helpful. Good luck with your presentation tonight!
Excellent video. Very helpful! Thank you!
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Needless software? Me too. I almost bought something too. This works with Teams and/or Zoom. Perfect!
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Just have to say this is awesome and I wish I would have found it sooner. It's simple and creative at the same time.
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This is incredibly helpful!! Thanks so much for explaining this so clearly and demonstrating it so well.
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So Great and easily explained!!! Tanken you ❤
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This was easy to follow - concise and it worked!!! I can do it! Thanks!
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Excellent - you solved my issue in less time that it took me to "try" to figure it out on my own. TY
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If I can follow it and manage it - then you sir are a very good teacher :)
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@@ThinkOutsideTheSlide Quick question - is there any way I can also see participants whilst utilizing this screen set up?
If you have a second screen, you can use one screen for this setup and the other screen for the meeting platform videos.
This is what I need for my presentation. Thank you! a BIG HELP
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Wonderful tutorial! Exactly what I needed. Thank you for sharing!
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Hello. Great video! Does the camera app allow blurring of the background?
No it does not. The blurring that Teams or Zoom offer is done using AI in the app.
Very helpful. Thank you so much!!
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Teams could think to implement this... in meanwhile your suggestion is great!
I agree! I think that this would be a good addition to Teams.
omg u have no idea how long ive been searching for a way to do this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! especially because im left with a super old computer, an okay-sh webcam and i'm using a PC.
i personally feel like with virtual meetings and whatnot, especially if i have to do a 3hr lecture making it feel like im "there" by making my screen bigger is helpful albeit a little narcissistic :P
anyway THANK YOU SO MUCH. omg this is amazing.
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Super useful! Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!
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Inspiring and really made me ThinkOutsideTheSlide.....excellent
Thanks!
Very well done and very helpful. Thanks for sharing.
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Good practical approach. Look forward to trying it!
Good luck using the approach in a future presentation
One of the best videos I have seen
Thank you!
@@ThinkOutsideTheSlide Thanks for acknowledging, much appreciated. I am unable to see the 'Task Bar' inside the Team, where the 'Share' button is there, besides , the ppts or the Desktop 'screens' too do not appear in the Team screen. I have legal Office 365 and have downloaded 'Team' as well. arkundapur@gmail.com
This was exactly what I needed
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Thank you for this tutorial! I work as a sign language interpreter and I need to be in a larger view on screen with the presenter and sometimes with a presenter and powerpoint. What do you suggest for that situation? Thanks!
I have not faced this situation before. One option to try in both Teams and Zoom is to see if using the Spotlight feature for the presenter and yourself will work. Spotlight allows attendees to see that video feed (or feeds) larger than other feeds even if content is being shared. Try this and see if it might work well enough.
For Zoom I did some research and found two articles that may be helpful. The first describes using Zoom's interpretation feature to set up an ASL interpreter: languagers.com/how-to-add-remote-asl-interpreters-on-zoom-conference-meetings/. The second is from Zoom and explains more about this feature: support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/360034919791-Translating-your-meeting-or-webinar. I hope those help if spotlighting doesn't work well enough.
I found this very helpful!
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Great tip - I'm off to try this. Can I ask, if you have multiple screens are you still able to see your presenter notes? Thanks in advance :-)
You would have to have your notes printed as a PDF and manually scroll through the document as you present. The Reading View is the only PowerPoint window open using the method in this video. If you use Teams you can use the Presenter modes to put you video beside your slides as I explain in this article: www.thinkoutsidetheslide.com/use-the-standout-presenter-mode-in-a-teams-meeting-to-put-the-presenters-video-on-top-of-shared-content/
Nice! Any idea how to hide the window title and the status bar in the powerpoint window? Would look even sleeker without them...
Unfortunately there is no way to remove the top and bottom bars in Reading view.
Thank you thank you SO MUCH!!IVE BEEN TRYING TO FIND THIS TO CHEAT ON MY EXAMINATION CAUSE ITS TOMMORROW AND THERE A LOT OF LESSONS
Thank you! That's very helpful. Is there a way to do this with presenter view on windows?
Unfortunately there isn't a way to do this with Presenter View. If you have two screens and you want to see your speaking notes, you can use the technique in this video to share one screen in the meeting and scroll through a PDF of the Notes pages from PowerPoint on the other screen. I have an article that has options for seeing your speaking notes when not using Presenter View at www.thinkoutsidetheslide.com/seeing-your-speaking-notes-in-powerpoint-while-presenting-slides-in-microsoft-teams-if-you-only-have-one-screen/
@@ThinkOutsideTheSlide thank you!!
Very helpful, thanks!
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Such a great "life hack"! Great Job! Thanks for the work!
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This video is gem 💎 Thanks a million for this 🙏
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Thank you so much. This is what I was looking for for so long!!
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Great video, thank you!
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Hello!!!! Huge thanks... this is AMAZING!!! GENIUS!!!!!!!
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excellent tutorial thank you
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Thanks so much for this! i think it is working except im still waiting on the recording from teams to see if my voice has really been recorded.. I have a feeling it wont if i dont have my mic on in teams (i.e. just turning on the "facetime" app on mac will help with the voice too?)?
The mic in Teams will be picking up your audio so you have to set it to unmute and set to your preferred mic (if you have more than one). The technique in this video only applies to the visual.
Thank you so much Dave, you are a GENIOUS!
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This was extremely helpful. My laptop camera app let me switch to my nicer webcam. I was able to use my second monitor to check the Teams app and watch the chat and participant feature. I could not figure out how to see my presenter notes on the second monitor. Is that because PowerPoint is in Browsed by individual window? Thanks for your help!
When using the Browsed by an Individual mode, also called Reading View, you cannot see your notes like you can in Presenter View. Since you have a second monitor, you can print the Notes pages from PowerPoint as a PDF and display them on the second screen so you can refer to your notes as you present. This article explains more about this approach: www.thinkoutsidetheslide.com/seeing-your-speaking-notes-in-powerpoint-while-presenting-slides-in-microsoft-teams-if-you-only-have-one-screen/
@@ThinkOutsideTheSlide Thank you for passing this along. I'm a presentation skills coach, so I rarely use notes, but this is helpful information. Your technical knowledge is very practical!
That was excellent!!! It works also when you want to record your video, easily can you do it with record zoom option. I didn't know however, that you can use windowed powerpoint presentation. Thank you very much.
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Great simple trick! Kudos
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This was excellent; are you able to record that presentation so it can be played at a later time?
If you record the meeting in Teams or Zoom, the platform will record whatever you share in the meeting, so yes, it will record both the video and your slides.
@@ThinkOutsideTheSlide thanks so much!!
Really good one!! Will definitely follow for more of this!
Awesome, thank you!
Awesome help, thanks!
I'm glad the video was helpful. Teams has recently introduced Presenter Modes which include side-by-side mode which is an alternative built in to Teams (article here: www.thinkoutsidetheslide.com/use-the-standout-presenter-mode-in-a-teams-meeting-to-put-the-presenters-video-on-top-of-shared-content/). In Zoom you can use multi-window select now to also have your video beside your slides (article here: www.thinkoutsidetheslide.com/use-zoom-multi-window-sharing-to-present-your-powerpoint-slides-beside-your-video-windows-mac/)
This was so helpful! Thank you!
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Great advise and great video . Thank you!!!
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This is awesome! Thanks
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Thank you! This completely solved my problem!
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Can't seem to access 'desktop' when I share the screen in zoom....It has 'screen' but that is taken up by the zoom screen. Help please!
So helpful! Thank you.
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This is great, I'm trying to make this happen on the MS Teams mobile app, is that possible at all? I can use my desktop but the desktop doesn't have a mic, so I'm stuck to using the app. Any suggestions?
No, this is not possible on the Teams mobile app. You may want to consider adding a mic to your desktop. One option is to plug the earbuds from your phone (or an old pair lying around) into the headphone jack of the desktop. Another option is to use a USB adapter that allows you to plug the earbuds into the adapter (here's the one I use: amzn.to/31m2U9h). Once the earbuds are connected to the desktop, use the mic on the earbuds in Teams. I hope that helps.
@@ThinkOutsideTheSlide I tried it, unfortunately that didnt work out. I think I can sort another laptop or even make second Microsoft account and use a con-call. thanks for your help!
Thank you very much!
I'm glad you found the video helpful. You may also want to try the Presenter modes in Teams that allow you to put your video beside your shared content. I have a video on the new updates at th-cam.com/video/vz8g4jD5kSY/w-d-xo.html
Thank you! This is was perfect! The only thing is when I set it to browse individual window on the ppt slide, I cannot use the pen anymore, is there anyway around that? TIA
Glad the video was helpful! In Reading View (playing the slides in a window) there is no way to use the laser or drawing tools. You may be able to use these tools from the meeting platform if it offers them.
Excellent, it was really helpful!!!
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Thank you. This is very useful.
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This is really clear thank you. Maybe you can help me... I’m helping host a family event where different people will speak for a few minutes each. While they are speaking it would be nice to show a photo or possibly a few photos on a slide, however we don’t want to share the photo as the whole screen with only their face very tiny for those who have the speaker view open. The people speaking and other viewers may not be very adept at zoom so I want to be able to organise the whole thing smoothly from my screen. The only thing I could think is that I could create something similar to what you have created here, except instead of powerpoint and camera I would use powerpoint zoom. Then i could spotlight the speaker, and then share my entire screen... this is the only solution I can think of. But I just wonder if there will be too much delay with their voice coming from them to me and then back to everyone else.
I am pretty sure there will be too much of a delay with the video portion going to you and back out compared to the voice. I have seen this happen recently and it was very noticeable and a more complex setup with other equipment was needed.
@@ThinkOutsideTheSlide Thank you for replying, much appreciated
Nice solution . Thank you! Question: I am using "presenters view" on Mac with two monitors. I want to minimize or adjust the size of the presenters window but Mac doesn't show the buttons to mininimize. Is that fine with Mac? it does work on windows. I would appreciate your comments. thanks
You have discovered one of the differences between Presenter View on the Mac and on Windows. The Mac version does not allow you to take the Presenter View window out of full screen mode while the Windows version does allow it. This has been a request to Microsoft for some time and hopefully it will change in the future.
Thanks for sharing, this is neat, but the video audio lags? when we play the re-recording any tips for that?
That does happen sometimes and in my experience it is not consistent so it can be hard to figure out how to resolve it. It can sometimes be a function of the computer or the network. One thing that helps on Zoom is enabling the option to optimize for sharing video. Both Zoom and Teams will be introducing features that place the presenter's video in front of the slides but I haven't been able to test it so don't know if it has the same issue or not.
Thank you, very helpful. My colleagues across Africa will be treated to some more professional looking training sessions.
Glad it helped!
Hi , thanks for some really useful tips. Do you know is there is a way to start the Teams recording after screen share has been enabled?
If you can see the Teams meeting controls and have permission to record the meeting, you should be able to start the recording. You will have to click on the border of the PowerPoint window to return focus to the slides so you can continue your presentation.
Thank you for this informative presentation. The clean desktop look is really a bonus.
How could a group project with three sequential presenters use this? At the end of this PPt presentation, class participation is expected. Class size is approximately 16 persons. Any ideas?
Each person in the group would have to set up and share their screen using the approach in the video. There is no way to switch the video being shown on one person's computer. Once the presentation is over, stop sharing the screen and you can then see everyone in the meeting and have a discussion. I hope that helps.
Thank u very much... from bottom of heart...
I'm glad the video was helpful
Very Helpfull
I'm glad you found the video helpful
Can I do this with my document camera as well
As long as the document camera is recognized by the operating system as a camera, you can use it as your camera in Zoom or Teams. Then you can use this technique to have your document camera beside your slides.
very helpful. thanks.
Glad it was helpful!
GENIUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I DIDNT EVEN THINK OF THAT
Thanks!
Thanks for this Dave, very helpful. It baffles me that Zoom, Teams, Webex etc have not yet designed their software to allow people to record their presentations with a larger video!
I would like to get rid of the the horizontal bars at the top and bottom of the powerpoint window - where it says 'PowerPoint Slide Show' and the slide number at the bottom. Any suggestions on how to do that?
Glad you found the video helpful. Zoom and Teams have announced that they will be giving presenters more options for arranging their slides and video but until we see those features released we won't know what they look like. There is no way to get rid of the top and bottom bars, they are part of Reading view. One way to reduce focus on them is to change your Office Theme to Dark Grey and then the bars are a medium grey instead of white.
@@ThinkOutsideTheSlide I actually found another solution using zoom. Instead of sharing my whole desktop (I actually didn't see any option to do that, although I thought you could) I shared a 'portion of my screen'. This was under the 'advanced' tab in the screen share dialogue box. That then allows you to move and reshape a rectangular window (green border) and the final recording only shows what is within this window. A very small irritation I have is that the hotkey for starting and stopping record in zoom (Alt + R) doesn't seem to work when sharing this way - so I'll just have to edit out the first and last few seconds of my recordings while I search for the control to click! Thanks
Yes, that will certainly work. To make Zoom hotkeys universal, go into the Zoom settings and go to the section for shortcut keys. There you can check a box to make that hotkey universal so it is recognized by Zoom even if you are in another program.
@@ThinkOutsideTheSlide Oh great. Thanks for that too
Merci beaucoup !
I'm glad you found the video helpful
Very useful thank you
Glad it was helpful!
Great video. If I choose this format will I be able to see the chat box and my 50+ participants?
You can see the chat in Teams if you open the chat pane and that will be there even when you share your slides. You may need to restore the window because it minimizes the window when you share content. If meeting participants have their cameras on, you will see some of them but not all of them in Teams. The new Teams meeting experience that is rolling out does improve this.
@@ThinkOutsideTheSlide Thank you. Is this true for ZOOM , too?
Zoom is different. It allows you to share just a portion of your screen so you can put the chat and videos in another part of the screen and still see them. It is easier than Teams in that respect. If you have a second screen, you can set Zoom to use dual screen mode and you have more flexibility as to where the videos and chat can be placed.
@@ThinkOutsideTheSlide Thank you!
Thanks for the info! Will try this! :) Peter
I hope it works well for you
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Can you please help me get the powerpoint slides on the right side? I am not finding how or where to crop those slides. Thank you!
The slides are being displayed in Reading View, which displays the slide show in the PowerPoint window. That allows you to size them and position them on your desktop. I have a video on Reading View at th-cam.com/video/NFQ9EMlP3jI/w-d-xo.html
Thank you for this. I'm working in Zoom, not Teams. I still can't get the presenter's image to fill half the screen. The presentation side is fine. What have I misunderstood?
In both Zoom and Teams you need to stop sharing your camera in the meeting platform before starting the Camera app in Windows. The camera can only feed one app at a a time. I hope that helps.
thanks a lot... wonderful information. Could you please make a video on how to blur the background in this same situation?
Blurring the background would have to be a function of the Camera app or whichever app you are using to display your video. This is not a current feature of the Camera app and I am not aware of an app that would do that.
Excellent presentation. Is there a way to use the two screen mode om ppt / zoom so I can see my notes?
I cover a number of ways to see your notes while showing the audience your slides in this article: www.thinkoutsidetheslide.com/seeing-your-speaking-notes-in-powerpoint-while-presenting-slides-in-microsoft-teams-if-you-only-have-one-screen/. I hope one of them will work for you.
This is great! Do you know if it is possible to do the same thing when using Google Slides instead of PowerPoint? Thanks!
In some quick testing in Google Slides it appears that if you present in Presenter View mode the slides are shown in the browser window, not full screen. I would think that you could then move the browser window beside the Camera app.
@@ThinkOutsideTheSlide I will give that a try. Thank you!
This is brilliant. I tried it and my video appears jumpy when viewed by others. Is there anything I can do to improve the stream quality?
How smooth it appears can depend on a number of factors, such as how fast you computer is, how high resolution the screen is that you are sharing (higher resolution screens force the meeting platform to distribute more data), and the internet speed of your audience members. If you are using Zoom, you can try turning on the option of sharing video content which increases the frame rate Zoom uses to share the screen.
@@ThinkOutsideTheSlide Thank you - I check out some of those variables. Can't wait to try this approach on my next event!
Thanks! Can I still record the whole Teams lesson for my students as normal?
Yes you can! It would allow students to see this view when they watch the recording because Teams records whatever screen you are sharing.
I started using this mode and it's excellent. In teams if I browse and share it removes my ppt controls.. Like I want to jump slide.. I can only move slides progressively
Also it starts always from slide one.. Anyway, I can start at the slide I want in browse share?
Using the Slide Show in a window is known as Reading View and it has all the animation and transition features but it does not have all of the features of full screen Slide Show. You should be able to start at the current slide by pressing Shift+F5 or using the From Current Slide button on the Slide Show ribbon. To jump to another slide, right-click in the window and click on Go To Slide. This brings up a scrollable list of all the slides in the file listing the text in the title placeholder of the slide. You can then click on the slide you want to jump to. Hope that helps.
Try using VLC instead of the camera app you can have it on top and get rid of buttons etc
Thanks for sharing this tip. For some who have corporate laptops that IT controls, they may not be able to install other software and they will have to use the Camera app.
Excellent Hack to record training videos
I'm glad the video was helpful
I would like to pre-record my video like you did.. How did you do that?
I have an online course on recording your presentation which includes recording your video beside your slides like you see in this video. The course details are at thinkoutsidetheslide.teachable.com/p/advanced-recording-of-narrated-powerpoint-slides-for-a-flipped-classroom
Great presentation and lives up entirely to the name of your channel ...ThinkOutsideThe Slide. Really neat thinking. Does Zoom have a slide show view option like Webinar Jam. I have used that to run my slides on WJ and then used screen split in Win 10 to run my PPT in the Notes mode on the side. Not sure if one can do that in Zoom...any idea on that?
Thanks for the kind comments on the video. I am not familiar with Webinar Jam so I am not sure what their options are. In Zoom, you would be able to see your speaking notes on the screen as you are showing the slides to your audience by using Method 2 in this article: www.thinkoutsidetheslide.com/seeing-your-speaking-notes-in-powerpoint-while-presenting-slides-in-a-zoom-meeting-if-you-only-have-one-screen/. If you have a large enough screen, you could combine that method with the technique in this video to have your video, slides, and speaking notes all on the screen at the same time.
ThinkOutsideTheSlide.com Dave, I absolutely love your videos and the solutions that you have to make webinars and online meetings so effortless. I followed the link that you had put in your comments above and was floored especially by the way of conducting a Zoom meeting on a single screen with presenter view and with all notes available. That was perfect. I dare say you are bringing back the romance of making presentations.
Thank you!
Great lesson Dave! Any idea of whether or how this works on a Mac?
I don't have a Mac here so I can't say for sure. I would think the Photo Booth app on the Mac would be the substitute for the Windows Camera app. I think the dock on a Mac can auto-hide like the Windows taskbar. I am not sure how to hide desktop icons on the Mac. I would think you could then adapt the rest of the steps to set up the screen arrangement and share the screen in Teams or Zoom. If you do try it out, let me know how it works!
I just posted an article with instructions on using this technique on a Mac. The article is at www.thinkoutsidetheslide.com/present-with-your-video-beside-your-powerpoint-slides-in-microsoft-teams-or-zoom-on-a-mac/
@@ThinkOutsideTheSlide Thanks Dave! I'll give this a try.
@@ThinkOutsideTheSlide With a Mac you can have multiple desktops, so you would use a clean one.
Would be great to add how this option works when sharing your screen and pinning different presenters other than yourself.
When you share your screen, the audience sees whatever is on the screen, including your video and slides. As a participant in Zoom or Teams, pinning someone only makes their video larger on your own screen. As the presenter if you spotlight your own video in Teams it replaces what you are sharing on Windows or Mac or puts your cropped video beside the slides on an iPad (this video explains how to use Spotlight in Teams when sharing slides: th-cam.com/video/CKHuDpnaOxA/w-d-xo.html). Zoom does not allow spotlighting while sharing content. Both Teams and Zoom are introducing new options for videos beside slides later this year so check for the updates as they get released.
fantastic!
I’m glad you found the video helpful
Great idea, I was just searching for an app that does this I can't believe it' s not an inbuilt option.
Both Zoom and Teams are introducing features that allow you to put your video in front of your slides. So something like this is coming to both platforms.
Can this be recorded outside of teams?
Since you are displaying your slides and camera on the screen, any app that can record the screen would be able to record this view
Thank you! I was looking for and app to do that!
Glad I could help!