Record audio and video

- [Instructor] Need to record audio or video while taking notes in a class or a meeting? Here's how with OneNote 2016. The first thing you'll need to do is select where you would like to place the recording within the notebook page. Notice the blinking cursor here. That's where it's going to insert it unless we select here or somewhere else on the page. Let's go ahead and place it in the upper left corner for now. Next, we need to go to the insert ribbon. We're looking for a group called recording. Within this group, there are two options. You can record either audio or video. For this example, let's go ahead and record audio. A container now appears here where it is recording everything that is being said into the microphone connected to the device. Notice that we have a new ribbon displaying. This recording ribbon, and it's indicating this has to do with audio and video. While we're recording, this appears so that you can pause it at any time or you can stop the recording. Before we do that, I'd like to type some notes that have to do with what we're recording. The notes can be added anywhere on the page, so we can add 'em over here to the right, we can add them below this container. I'm going to put them over here. All right. So maybe we want to have a note here that we need to remember to email Jonathan about the food order and something that has to do with approving an invoice for the photographer. Let's go ahead and stop the recording and that recording contextual ribbon has now changed to a playback ribbon, giving us the opportunity to play the audio recording. Once we're playing it, we can also pause, stop, rewind 10 minutes or rewind 10 seconds. Before I play this back, as that audio recording was happening and these notes were being typed in, maybe handwritten in, it is keeping in sync the timeline as to when those notes were taken to where they fall in line with what was being recorded at that time. Notice as I'm hovering over this container, we have a play control next to each of these items. If we select to play that, it's going to play the audio that was at that specific timestamp of when this note was taken. We can also play the recording by selecting the recording and either selecting the play control next to it. So out here on the side of the container. Or we can play it from the playback ribbon, which is what we're going to do. Now watch what happens when it gets to that point in time, how it's going to highlight and call attention to each of these notes being added during this recording. All right, let's play it back. A container now appears here where it is recording everything that is being said into the microphone connected to the device. Notice that we have a new ribbon displaying. This recording ribbon, and it's indicating this has to do with audio and video. While we're recording, this appears so that you can pause it at any time or you can stop the recording. Before we do that, I'd like to type some notes that have to do with what we're recording. The notes can be added anywhere on the page. So we can add 'em over here to the right, so we can add them below this container. I'm going to put them over here. All right. So maybe we want to have a note here that we need to remember to email Jonathan about the food order. All right, so you get the idea. It's highlighting that first note. If I continued to play this, it would highlight the next note as to where it was taking place in that note. It can be really helpful to have some context of what was being said at the time that you were taking these notes within this notebook. This can also be helpful if this is a shared notebook. That maybe some of your colleagues, or guests, or someone else that's working with you on a project or a program can reference those on-demand notes and recordings even if they weren't in that meeting with you. All right. You can change the audio and video settings in a couple of different ways. If you do have this contextual playback ribbon in view, over here on the right, you can go to audio and video settings, and that takes you to the backstage area for the audio and video settings, where you can manage the audio recording settings, the device, the input. You can also do the same thing for the video recording settings and more. If you'd like to enable search for your audio and video recordings where it can search for spoken words, you'll want to check this box here. The same way that you can get to this if you don't have the playback ribbon up is to go to the file tab, select options, and from the navigation, select audio and video. Let's go ahead and cancel out of this menu. And that's how you can record and take related notes together.