When you present your online live training or your webinar, it is very important that your screen can be viewed by various audiences and also the recording of that webinar can also be viewed by many people. For this reason, I highly suggest for live webinars, you reduce your screen resolution to the lowest possible which is 640 x 480, and rather than recording your webinar in a small area, you should record it in full screen. You are able to view what you are recording because you get a file size that is small. It is also easy to repurpose your video, like when you want to embed it on a webpage.
When you use a screen size of 640 x480 when recording your video, it is going to be quite small compared to a larger video. If you record a video that is twice as high and twice as large, your video will be four times larger. So, it is better to have a smaller file size so that it can be downloaded easily and quickly. It also saves your bandwidth and your computer can process it much faster when you need to edit it.
Another big advantage of recording your video using a small screen size and then recording in full screen size is that you can see exactly what your recording will look like. If for instance you are recording only one window for your web browser, it will be unclear what the final result will look like. However, if you record the whole screen, then all you can view, what your live audience can see and what your participants watching the recorded video is the same. It is very easy for you and it is one thing that can't go wrong.
Lastly, once you have the recording, always remember that a large number of people won't use a full screen to watch that video. You might have to reduce the size to around 600 pixels wide if you embedded it on a webpage. If you intend to embed it to a blog post, you may have to reduce its size to about 300 pixels wide. Therefore, remember that you will still have to reduce the size of the recording much more to ensure that it fits on a regular webpage even if your screen is at a very low resolution.
I really don't like seeing recordings done on a large screen size and then have to reduce the size because I cannot view anything, all the writing and text is tiny. The sized down recording is very different from the original presentation. This is the reason why you must use a screen resolution of 640 x 480 to present your live webinar. It will ensure that the recording gets a smaller file size. You can record exactly what you view and broadcast it and it is also simple to size down to present on a webpage.
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