Microsoft Teams is about to save your PowerPoint presentations

Date:
Tue, 22 Mar 2022 17:02:08 +0000

Description:
Cameo and Recording Studio features bring Microsoft Teams video to your PowerPoint presentation

FULL STORY ======================================================================

Your next PowerPoint presentation might be a lot more exciting thanks to a
new feature that also draws in Microsoft Teams .

The company has announced it is bringing two separate tools together to make your meetings more engaging and interactive using its popular video conferencing platform.

The upgrade now means you'll be able to bring your Microsoft Teams camera
feed into a PowerPoint presentation, hopefully meaning an end to death by slides. Microsoft Teams and PowerPoint

The change has been made possible by integrating Cameo and Recording Studio, two existing tools announced by Microsoft in 2021 that looked to help improve the PowerPoint experience.

Cameo let users bring their live or recorded Teams camera feed into a PowerPoint presentation, giving users the chance to customize where on a
slide they'd like to appear. Recording Studio allows users to record a presentation in PowerPoint and deliver on-demand video, so your co-workers or colleagues can watch whenever they like. (Image credit: Microsoft)

The two tools will now be combined in PowerPoint, meaning that when a user is done creating a presentation, they can use Cameo to decide how and where they appear on the slides, and then carry out the actual pre-recorded speaking
with recording studio just by clicking the new "record" button within PowerPoint, all without having to switch between multiple platforms.

When the presentation is taking place, PowerPoint Live will then deliver the recorded video. Read more

Microsoft 365 is getting a load of features we already knew about - and a

few we didnt expect

Office and Microsoft Teams are getting even closer

New Microsoft Teams apps eliminate an obvious advantage for Zoom

Microsoft says the tool can be useful for speakers who may be unable to
attend a live meeting in-person, but still want to be a part of it, as Cameo with Recording Studio means, "youll still show up in the meeting as if you
are live."

Recording studio is generally available now for use in PowerPoint, and Cameo is set to be released within the next few months.

The news is only the latest in a series of partnerships between Teams and PowerPoint as Microsoft looks to make its Office suite more useful for
workers everywhere.

The company recently revealed PowerPoint Live is getting support for live slide translation , meaning slides can be instantly translated during a Microsoft Teams call. Both presenters and attendees can translate
presentation content privately by right-clicking on the presentation, which will bring up a "Translate Slides" option. These are the best online collaboration software picks around



======================================================================
Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/news/microsoft-teams-video-can-now-be-added-to-your- powerpoint-presentation/


--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 (Linux/64)
* Origin: tqwNet Technology News (1337:1/100)