Turn a PowerPoint deck into a presentation video automatically

Create the video in Finish

Finish offers several ways to create the video. Create the video automatically runs everything from generating the presenter footage to exporting.

The example is a five-slide briefing deck on the benefits of a generative-AI chat platform for small and midsize companies. It is a sample report produced by DeepResearch in Bestllam (https://bestllam.com), our own service, loaded as it is. The presenter is Sophia.

This example used the automatic path, which took about six minutes. The later steps explain each card on the Finish screen after the video exists.

6 stepsActual product screenshots

Watch the finished example

This is the finished video exported during the walkthrough, rather than a recording of the editing interface.

Benefits of a generative-AI chat platform for small and midsize companies — an explainer made from a PowerPoint deck

A 3 minute 20 second example exported from a five-slide briefing deck in Slide to Video Studio, with narration by Sophia, captions and emphasis. The voice is Kasumi Nagisa, the first recommendation for Sophia; body motion is low/low/low. This deck is a sample report produced by DeepResearch in Bestllam (https://bestllam.com), our own service.

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BEFORE YOU START

Before you start

Prepare the PowerPoint file (.pptx) you want to turn into a video and open the MotionVox home screen. The tutorials in this chapter follow the same five-slide deck.

Screenshots show actual sample projects. Instructions describe desktop browser operation; this guide can also be read on a phone.

STEP01

Choose how to finish in the Finish step

Click Confirm and go to the next step to open step 5, Finish. Readiness is shown at the top, with the next actions below.

  1. Check slides, script, presenter and voice, audio and total length. This example shows five slides, 23 lines and 3:20.
  2. To finish the video directly, click Create the video automatically. Presenter video generation and export then run automatically.
  1. Check Check slides, script, presenter and voice, audio and total length. This example shows five slides, 23 lines and 3:20.
  2. Action To finish the video directly, click Create the video automatically. Presenter video generation and export then run automatically.
Step 5, Finish, showing readiness and the available next actions.

Check To edit layout and timing yourself before finishing, choose Send to MotionVox to hand the project over to the track editor. Finishing in the track editor is covered in “Finish in the track editor and save the MP4” in this chapter.

STEP02

Confirm and start creating the video

Clicking Create the video automatically opens a confirmation. Starting here runs presenter video generation (GPU) and video export in sequence.

  1. Read the message. You wait with this screen open, and it says you can resume if you close it.
  2. Click Start.
  1. Check Read the message. You wait with this screen open, and it says you can resume if you close it.
  2. Action Click Start.
The confirmation shown before automatic video creation starts.

Check Depending on your plan, video generation uses credits. Before starting, it is worth checking the script and the length once more (3:20 in this example).

STEP03

Wait for generation and export

Once processing starts, progress is listed step by step. The figure shows presenter video generation in progress.

  1. Completed stages receive a green tick. Avatar generation (GPU) is followed by Video export.
  2. The line below shows how many clips are complete: eight of twenty-three in this figure.
  1. Check Completed stages receive a green tick. Avatar generation (GPU) is followed by Video export.
  2. Check The line below shows how many clips are complete: eight of twenty-three in this figure.
Automatic creation in progress: eight of twenty-three presenter clips generated.

Check For this example (3 minutes 20 seconds, 23 presenter clips), it took about six minutes from clicking Start to completion. The wait varies with video length and load.

STEP04

Check completion and open the track editor

When every stage is ticked and the heading says the video is ready, it is complete. Review the summary below.

  1. Check that every stage, including Avatar generation (GPU) and Video export, is ticked.
  2. Check the number of slides and lines and the total length: five slides, 23 lines and 3 minutes 20 seconds here. The Video row shows Exported.
  3. To check the ending and save the file, click Open MotionVox editor.
  1. Check Check that every stage, including Avatar generation (GPU) and Video export, is ticked.
  2. Check Check the number of slides and lines and the total length: five slides, 23 lines and 3 minutes 20 seconds here. The Video row shows Exported.
  3. Action To check the ending and save the file, click Open MotionVox editor.
All automatic steps completed and the video exported.

Check Watch the finished video next to it opens the video in a new browser tab, with sound. One row of the summary that shows an internal classification is painted over in the figure.

STEP05

Reopening the studio shows a prompt

When we reopened the studio for the same deck after the video was made, a prompt appeared first.

  1. It reads: the automatically created video is ready, open it?
  2. Click Watch the video to see it.
  3. Click Continue with the script to look at the script and settings. We pressed this and opened the Finish screen.
  1. Check It reads: the automatically created video is ready, open it?
  2. Check Click Watch the video to see it.
  3. Action Click Continue with the script to look at the script and settings. We pressed this and opened the Finish screen.
The prompt shown when the studio was reopened: the automatically created video is ready, open it?

Check If the prompt does not appear, simply continue.

STEP06

The Finish cards after the video exists

After the video exists, Finish lists actions for revising and for watching and sharing. The descriptions quoted are the text on the cards.

  1. Top row: Send to MotionVox (builds the project for detailed editing) and Create the video automatically (runs from avatar generation to export).
  2. Middle row: Consult and fix (revise emphasis, captions, text, pauses and speed with AI) and Rebuild (differences), which applies only what changed to the video project.
  3. Bottom left: Generate remaining shows that avatar generation is complete (23 clips) here. Export in the editor says to export again in the editor after making changes.
  4. Bottom right: Watch the finished video (plays the exported video on this screen) and Publish this video (issues a URL that plays in the viewer’s browser). The button with the same name under the summary right after completion opens a new tab; this card plays the video in a small window on this screen.
  1. Check Top row: Send to MotionVox (builds the project for detailed editing) and Create the video automatically (runs from avatar generation to export).
  2. Check Middle row: Consult and fix (revise emphasis, captions, text, pauses and speed with AI) and Rebuild (differences), which applies only what changed to the video project.
  3. Check Bottom left: Generate remaining shows that avatar generation is complete (23 clips) here. Export in the editor says to export again in the editor after making changes.
  4. Check Bottom right: Watch the finished video (plays the exported video on this screen) and Publish this video (issues a URL that plays in the viewer’s browser). The button with the same name under the summary right after completion opens a new tab; this card plays the video in a small window on this screen.
Step 5, Finish, after the video was created: readiness at the top and action cards below.

Check This chapter continues with Create the video automatically. The Consult card showed “20 free uses left, then 15 credits per exchange” on our screen.

BEFORE YOU FINISH

One final check.

When the completion screen appears, the video exists. Continue with finishing in the track editor and saving the MP4.

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