When you transmit your live online training or your webinar, it's important that your screen is viewable by many different audiences and that the recording of that live training is also viewable by as many people as possible. For that reason, I highly recommend for webinars you size your screen down to the lowest possible screen size which is 640 x 480 and record your webinar recording in full screen instead of recording a small area. Because you get a small file size, you see exactly what you are recording and it's easy to repurpose that video especially for embedding on a webpage.
When you record your video in a 640 x 480 screen size, your video recording is going to be very small at least in comparison to a much larger video. Think about this. If you recorded a video that's twice as wide and twice as high, you will have a video that's at least four times as large. You want to have these smaller file size so that people can download it faster and easier. It saves on your bandwidth and it processes on your computer much faster if you want to make edits.
The next big benefit to recording your video at a small screen size and recording in full screen is that you see exactly what the recording is going to look like. If you are recording just one single window for example only recording your web browser, it's not clear what the end result is going to look like. But if you record the entire screen then what you see what your live webinar participants see and what your viewers watching the recording see is all exactly the same. It's very simple for you and it's one less thing that can go wrong.
And finally, when you do have that recording, you have to keep in mind that most people will not be watching that video on a full screen. If you embed it on a webpage, you may have to size it down to about 600 pixels wide. If you're embedding it down to a blog post, you might size it down to 300 or 400 pixels wide. So, keep in mind that even if you record your screen at the lowest resolution possible, you're still going to have to size the recording down even more to make it fit on a regular webpage.
I don't know about you but I hate it when I see recordings done on a very large screen size and then size down because I can't see anything, all the text and writing is tiny. The mouse pointer is tiny. And the sized down recording is much different than the original presentation looked. And that's exactly why you should present at 640 x 480 screen resolution. It gives you a smaller file size in the recording. You record exactly what you see and broadcast and it's easy to resize down to show on a webpage.
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