Create a screencast with Kaltura Capture guide

You need to use Office 365/Office 2019 to record a PowerPoint Presentation. When you use Kaltura Capture to record a PowerPoint presentation, it automatically creates chapters for each slide in your PowerPoint. This makes navigating, viewing slides easier and allows students, to skip to the part of the presentation that is most relevant to them.

1. Go to mediaspace.city.ac.uk, select Guest in the top right, and log in with your City username and password.
2. Under the Add New menu, select Kaltura Capture.
3. You will need to download and install the program on your computer.
4. If you are using a work computer, or are experiencing problems downloading the application from MediaSpace you can use AppsAnywhere or the Company Portal to install Kaltura Capture.
5. If you cannot install Kaltura Capture using the above two options, please contact the IT Self Service Portal.
6. You can request a headset from IT Self Service Portal to record your captures.

1. Login to MediaSpace and select Add New. Choose Kaltura Capture.
   • Always launch Kaltura Capture like this. Don't be tempted to open it from the Start menu (Windows) or from the Dock / Applications list (Mac). There is no log-in/log-out function in Kaltura Capture, so recordings are saved and uploaded to the account of the last person who logged in to mediaspace.city.ac.uk on the computer.

1. Select the inputs that you would like to record. Selected inputs display in blue and any selected inputs will be captured on the recording.
2. To record a PowerPoint presentation, select Screen to record your PowerPoint and Audio to record your voice. You can optionally select Camera to record the webcam.
3. Select the arrow alongside each of the options for more options.

To record the full screen:

1. Select the arrow alongside screen.
2. Select the Full screen option.

To record a section of the screen only:

Select the Select area option and then select Select Area again. 

1. You now have the option to draw a rectangle or choose a certain resolution to select the area of the screen you want to record This can also be moved around to show certain areas of the screen.

1. Select the Manage link. This takes you to your Capture library and provides access to additional settings.

   

2. Select the cog icon to open the additional settings.
3. The Camera recording quality allows you to select a quality for the camera recording.
4. The Screen recording quality allows you to select a quality for the screen recording.
5. The Record system audio option allows you to select whether or not you want the system audio in the audio for your recording. If you have videos in your lectures, and would like the audio from the video to be available in the recording, select Yes as the option.
6. The Recording name prefix option allows you to title your recordings.
7. The Highlight Cursor option will show a colour to highlight where the cursor is when a button is pressed.
8. Select the Save button in the top-right to save your settings.

1. Open your presentation in PowerPoint and set the presentation to Slide Show mode. From PowerPoint select Slide Show and choose From Beginning.

   

2. Select Alt+Shift+Tab at the same time to move between open applications and select the Kaltura Capture Application.
3. Select Record from the Kaltura Capture application.
4. Go through the presentation whilst narrating using the forward and backwards arrows to move through the slides.
5. Once you have completed your recording, select the grey stop button. You will be asked to confirm that you want to stop the recording, select Yes, stop it. Select Save from the review screen.

1. When you select stop, your recording is displayed in the review window. You can now play back your recording and edit the settings for the video, such as:
   • Title allows you to rename your recording. 
   • Description allows you to add an optional description to your recording. 
   • Tags allows you to add tags to your recording. This is optional.
   • Delete will delete your recording.
2. Save & Upload will upload your recording to MediaSpace. By default it will be uploaded to your My Media and will be private to only you.
   • Save will save the recording in Kaltura Capture, and gives you the option to upload to MediaSpace afterwards.

Once you have uploaded your narrated PowerPoint to MediaSpace you can complete basic edits using the MediaSpace editor. Further guidance is available in the Edit MediaSpace video guide.

Each slide in your PowerPoint will be a chapter in the recording.

The menu button on the top left hand side of the screen enables students to:

• Select any chapter to jump to the specific time in the video the slide was presented.
• The text of the title of each slide is captured and becomes searchable within the recorded video.