Turn PowerPoint to video with AI: upload a deck and get a narrated explainer video, not a slide-by-slide export. Potto reads the slides, rewrites them as scenes with motion graphics, voiceover and captions, and lets you edit every scene before you export an MP4.
Free to preview and edit. You only pay when you export.
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Two PowerPoint to video samples start from one sample deck and a sentence of direction; four more show the same creator with a PDF report, handout, manual and study summary. Select a poster to play it.
16:9 · 47s
An 8-slide Q3 business review as a wide explainer: three headline numbers, what drove growth and what customers said, then Q4 priorities.
9:16 · 18s
That same deck as an 18-second vertical clip that opens on +18%, adds two more Q3 numbers and ends on one line about Q4.
1:1 · 22s
A sample annual report uploaded as a PDF, not a PowerPoint: three numbers, a sentence each, framed square for a feed.
16:9 · 40s
A class handout uploaded as a PDF and turned into a wide lesson: the steps in order, one idea per screen, ending on check-yourself questions.
16:9 · 34s
A quick start manual uploaded as a PDF: first use, setting a temperature and cleaning, one task per scene.
9:16 · 25s
A research summary uploaded as a PDF and cut as a vertical clip: the question, the results as big numbers, then the limits.
Potto wrote these sample decks and documents; their companies, people and figures are fictional. The videos come from Potto projects made with the same creator, not recordings of a customer project.
Slide 2 of the sample PowerPoint next to the frame it became when we convert PPT to video in a wide format. Numbers on screen come from that slide; the story around them becomes narration.
Revenue up 18%, 6,200 bikes sold and 41% repeat customers stay on screen as a short animated list with their labels. Numbers, units and names on a slide should survive word for word, so they belong in a frame, not only in narration.
A slide holds bullets that a presenter would explain out loud. With no presenter in the room, PowerPoint to video AI turns that missing explanation into a voiceover script and captions, so each bullet gets a sentence of context in the order the scenes show them.
Check every number on screen against the PPT, and read captions for units and qualifiers such as up 18%. The AI chooses which of the opening 12 slides to show, so confirm that the slides you need appear in a scene.
To convert PPT to video that people watch to the end, tell the AI who is watching and what they should take away. Your kind of presentation then decides length, which slides are worth showing and what a script should leave out.
16:9 · 47s
Lead with a conclusion and the three to five numbers that support it; 30 to 60 seconds usually covers a quarterly review or a pitch summary. Show your key chart, say risks in plain words, and leave appendix slides out. To convert PPT to video for social too, cut a vertical version from the same presentation.
16:9 · 34s
Turn one module into one video rather than a whole course. Keep steps in the order the slides teach them, one rule or task per scene, and end on what a new hire should do next. Exact policy names, numbers and deadlines belong on screen, not only in voiceover.
16:9 · 40s
Slides to video works best one lecture at a time: open with a question, show the diagram slides people need to see, and let narration carry slides full of text. Add your speaking points to the brief, because a deck alone often leaves out what you would say in class.
Go from PowerPoint to video in three steps with the creator above. Previews are free, and the credit price appears before you export.
Upload a .pptx file of up to 20 MB, then write a sentence on who the video is for and what they should remember. Leave Video type on Auto or pick a use such as Explainer or Data Story. Potto reads text from up to 100 slides, and a project holds up to 8 attachments.
Read the AI script and storyboard against the original slides. Edit words on screen and voiceover for any scene, swap a screenshot, choose a focus point, or regenerate or replace an illustration. Check that names and numbers still match the slides.
Watch a preview in your browser for free. When you are ready to convert PPT to video, export a 1080p MP4 at 30 fps in 16:9, 9:16 or 1:1. Credits are charged only when you export, based on length, narration and illustrations.
PowerPoint can save a presentation as a video itself, and many slides to video tools add a voice to each slide. Potto's PPT to video AI rewrites a PowerPoint for viewing: titles, numbers and bullets become animated layouts and charts with narration and captions, so your result plays like a finished explainer video rather than slides with a voice.
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Potto reads the text on each slide, and Claude Opus 5.5 drafts an outline, storyboard and voiceover script; scenes are rendered with Remotion, with AI-generated illustrations and voiceover. When a presentation is long, only its opening part is used to write the script, so put key slides first.
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The first 12 slides of your deck can be used as images in your video. The PowerPoint to video AI picks the ones that fit each scene of the storyboard, so some slides may not appear; you can swap in a screenshot or choose a focus point afterwards. Animations from PowerPoint are not replayed; Potto adds its own motion.
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Select a brand kit, or turn on the default brand, and its four brand colors are applied to the visuals. Choose a font from Inter, Space Grotesk and Bricolage; your logo appears in opening and closing scenes.
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Choose any of 32 narration languages or let Potto detect a language automatically. Captions highlight each word as it is spoken. Background music comes from Potto's own library of original tracks, picked to fit the style and length, and you can change it. Listen once for names, numbers and abbreviations taken from the deck.
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Potto exports a 1080p MP4 at 30 fps in 16:9 (1920×1080), 9:16 (1080×1920) or 1:1 (1080×1080). Aspect ratio does not change the price, so the same presentation can become a wide video for meetings and a vertical cut for social; the review samples show one deck in both shapes.
PPT to video is one way to start. These pages cover other starting points and tools around it.
What PPT to video means, how it differs from exporting in PowerPoint, and the slide limits, edits and prices to know before exporting.
PPT to video, also called PowerPoint to video, is the process of turning a presentation into a video people can watch without a presenter, with visuals, narration and captions carrying what the slides say. The simplest slides to video method plays each slide for a few seconds, with or without recorded audio. Potto is a PPT to video AI: it reads your slide text, writes a storyboard and script, turns titles, numbers and bullets into motion graphics, uses some slides as images, and renders an MP4. It does not film footage or generate a digital presenter.
PowerPoint's own video export records your slides as they are: each slide stays on screen for a set time, with the narration, timings, animations and transitions you added yourself. Potto's PPT to video AI starts from the content instead: it writes a script and voiceover you did not have to record, rebuilds slides as animated scenes, and lets you pick a 16:9, 9:16 or 1:1 frame. Export from PowerPoint when you want the deck exactly as designed; use PowerPoint to video AI when you want an explainer made from it.
To convert PPT to video, upload your .pptx file in the creator at the top, write a sentence about your audience and goal, and start the project. Potto drafts a script, storyboard, narration and captions; you edit them scene by scene, preview for free in your browser, and export an MP4 once it reads right.
Presentations with real text on the slides work best: business reviews, pitch decks, training modules and lecture slides. Potto's PowerPoint to video AI writes its script from text it can read, so clear titles, exact numbers and short bullets give it more to work with. Slides that are only pictures, or text saved inside an image, give the script little to use; for slides to video from a deck like that, put those points in your brief instead.
Potto reads text from up to 100 slides, and a single .pptx file can be 20 MB. When a presentation is very long, only its opening part is used to write the script, so do not expect every section to be covered. The first 12 slides can be used as visuals, and the PPT to video AI picks the ones that fit the storyboard, so not every slide appears in your video.
No. For PPT to video, Potto takes the slide text and still images of up to 12 opening slides, so animations, transitions and timings set in PowerPoint are not replayed. Motion comes from Potto's own animated scenes instead. Audio or video clips placed inside a deck are not used either, and Potto currently cannot take an existing video to analyze or edit.
Yes. Before you export, you can edit what the PPT to video AI drafted: the words on screen and the voiceover script for each scene. For visuals, you can swap a screenshot, choose its focus point, regenerate an AI illustration or replace it with your own upload. Preview again after each change.
Yes. Word to video works the same way as PPT to video: upload a .docx file with the same limits of 20 MB, 100 pages of text and the first 12 pages as visuals. PDF files work too; PDF to video covers reports, handouts and manuals. If your slides were made in another presentation app, download them as a .pptx or PDF file first, and slides to video follows the same three steps.
Yes, when you select a brand kit or turn on the default brand. Its four brand colors are applied to the visuals, the font is your choice of Inter, Space Grotesk or Bricolage, and your logo appears in opening and closing scenes.
Potto exports a 1080p MP4 at 30 fps, rendered from your scenes rather than recorded from a slideshow. Choose 16:9 (1920×1080) for a meeting room screen or website, 9:16 (1080×1920) for phones, or 1:1 (1080×1080) for feeds. A 4:5 frame and GIF export are not available.
Generating and previewing a presentation to video project in your browser is free; Potto charges credits only when you export. The price depends on video length, narration length and how many AI illustrations you use, and aspect ratio does not change it. For example, a 30-second video with English narration and no illustrations costs 153 credits, and adding 2 illustrations brings it to 199 credits. Each account can start up to 30 video projects and generate 60 illustrations a day.
Upload a PowerPoint deck, review scenes and script, and see the credit price before you convert PPT to video as an MP4.