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Yourself: PowerPoint or PDF to video with Synthesia

Where: Synthesia web app (app.synthesia.io) → Studio → Recordings

If you have access to Synthesia yourself, you can turn a PowerPoint or PDF file into a video right in Synthesia’s web app and then bring it into the Academy’s library. This works without the integration and suits files that are not a presentation in the Academy. For the Academy’s presentations, “Make a video” does the same automatically.

How to

Section titled “How to”
  1. Sign in to Synthesia (your own account or your organisation’s).
  2. PowerPoint: “New video” → “Import PowerPoint” and upload the .pptx file (up to 250 MB). The slides become scene backgrounds; “Auto-populate script” turns the speaker notes into the narration. Embed the fonts in the file; Synthesia doesn’t take over animations.
  3. PDF or Word: choose the AI video assistant or “PDF to video” and upload the file. Synthesia writes a script of its own from the content; the pages are not taken over one to one. Check the script.
  4. Choose avatar, voice and language, check scenes and text, then have the video made.
  5. Download the finished video as MP4 (and the subtitles if you need them).
  6. In the Academy, under Studio → Recordings, choose “Upload an AI video…” → “made with Synthesia” and upload the MP4 file. That marks it as AI-generated like the Studio’s own.
  7. Then add the video to a course as a lesson or put it on a slide, like any recording.