RECORDING AND CAPTIONING
YOUR VIDEO PRESENTATION
In addition to your poster, you will prepare a brief (2-3 minute) video presenting your project. Guidance on
preparing the content of that video is available in the Preparing Your Video Presentation handout. Here, our focus
is on the steps to follow in order to record, caption, and share your video.
RECORDING YOUR VIDEO
The format of your video content can guide your selection of recording platform:
• If recording only yourself speaking, we recommend using Google Meet.
• If recording a combination of visual content and yourself speaking, we recommend using Google Meet.
• If recording only visual content, we recommend using PowerPoint.
USING GOOGLE MEET TO RECORD YOUR VIDEO
UConn students with a university Gmail account can use Google Meet to record a video.
1. Go to https://meet.google.com/_meet. Make sure you are signed in to your university Gmail account by
clicking the “Sign in” button at the top right.
2. Click “New Meeting” and then “Start an instant meeting.”
3. Once in the meeting, select the 3 dots
at the bottom right of the screen.
Select “Record meeting” to initiate the
recording. If you want to share slides
or other visual content, click “Present
now” in the bottom menu and select
the content you want to share before
you begin recording.
4. To stop recording, click the 3 dots
at the bottom right and select “Stop
recording.”
5. Videos will be saved to your Google
Drive within a few minutes of ending
the meeting. Once the video is in your
Google Drive, you can rename your
video by clicking on the three dots in
the upper right corner and selecting
“Rename.”
This can be done on your Drive homepage by selecting the file (at left) or by opening the file itself (at right).
6. Click “Download” to save the file on your computer as a .mp4 video.
OFFICE OF
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH
Oce of Undergraduate Research - ugradresearch.uconn.edu - our@uconn.edu