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.
Choose Create from presentation slides (PPTX) on Home
MotionVox Home shows a card for each way to start. To make a video from slides, begin at the PowerPoint entry.
- Click Upload slides on the Create from presentation slides (PPTX) card. Slide to Video Studio opens.
- Action Click Upload slides on the Create from presentation slides (PPTX) card. Slide to Video Studio opens.
Check The five steps are listed down the left of the studio, so you can always see where you are.
Load your PowerPoint file
Step 1 is PowerPoint upload. Load the deck you want to turn into a video. The figure shows the screen after loading the five-slide deck.
- Click Choose file and select your PowerPoint file. You can also drop the file inside the dashed area.
- Check that the file name appears with a green tick. The lower left also reports that the slides were loaded.
- Click Confirm and go to the next step at the lower right.
- Action Click Choose file and select your PowerPoint file. You can also drop the file inside the dashed area.
- Check Check that the file name appears with a green tick. The lower left also reports that the slides were loaded.
- Action Click Confirm and go to the next step at the lower right.
Check In this example we left Script and voice language on Automatic and left Total video length empty. When it is empty, the length follows the amount of content.
Check the loaded deck later
After loading, click PPTX upload on the left to check what was loaded. The figure shows this step revisited after the video was finished.
- Check the file name and the note “5 slides, Japanese, loaded”. It tells you the slide count and the language detected from the deck.
- Start over with another deck is for beginning again with a different file.
- The file name is also shown under PPTX upload in the list on the left.
- Check Check the file name and the note “5 slides, Japanese, loaded”. It tells you the slide count and the language detected from the deck.
- Check Start over with another deck is for beginning again with a different file.
- Check The file name is also shown under PPTX upload in the list on the left.
Check To change the deck itself, such as fixing text or adding slides, edit it in PowerPoint and load it again.
BEFORE YOU FINISH
One final check.
When the file name has a green tick and the slide count is shown, loading is done. Continue with “Choose how the slides are shown”.
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