Screen recording in RixSlides captures your screen to a .webm video and puts it on a slide as playable media. Instead of screenshots for every state of an app, you record the actual flow once — clicks, animations, results — and the deck shows the real thing. It is the fastest path from "I should demo this live" to a slide that demos itself, and everything happens locally.
Record your screen
- Open the screen recording tool from the insert or media menu.
- Choose what to record — the whole screen or the window you are demonstrating.
- Click record, perform the actions you want to show, then stop.
- Save the .webm to a folder you will find again.
- Insert it on a slide as video media and size the frame.
A short take beats a long one. Thirty to sixty focused seconds holds a room; a five-minute ramble loses it. If the flow needs more time, split it into two recordings on two slides — the slideshow's click pacing keeps the narrative tight.
Prepare the take
Thirty seconds of setup saves re-records:
- Close the clutter. Notifications, extra tabs and personal windows have a gift for appearing mid-take.
- Set the stage size. If the recording window is 4K and the slide frame is small, viewers will not read your interface — record at a size that survives the slide.
- Rehearse the clicks once before recording. Know which button you press next; the recording remembers every hesitation.
- Narrate on stage, not in the file, unless the deck will travel without you — presenting live over a silent recording lets you respond to the room.
Insert the recording on a slide
The recording is ordinary media once saved:
- Choose Insert, Video and select the .webm.
- Position and size the frame — large enough to read, framed to match the slide's composition.
- Set playback behavior in the sidebar: start on click gives you the demo beat exactly when you want it.
- Press F5 and rehearse: watch the clip play at presentation volume and confirm the pacing fits your talk track.
The .webm is embedded in the .pptx as a standard media part, so the deck remains self-contained — the recording plays on the presentation machine without the original file.
Where recordings fit in a deck
| Slide job | Recording plays the role of |
|---|---|
| Software feature demo | The live walkthrough you cannot risk live |
| Before and after | Two short clips, one per slide |
| Training material | The procedure, recorded once, reused every cohort |
| Bug report or review | The exact repro, captured for the record |
| Course content | The screen flow, narrated on stage |
Pair the clip with a one-line text box stating what the audience is about to see — the sentence orients, the recording proves.
Media in exports and on stage
In the slideshow the recording plays as video. In PDF or PNG exports it appears as its frame — exports capture stills. Plan accordingly: media is the live-show layer, the handout is the paper layer, and slides built knowing this do both jobs.
What to explore next
- Audio, video and 3D for the full media toolkit on slides.
- Presenter view to run media smoothly from stage.
- Animations and transitions to time the recording into your build.