How to export a presentation in Keynote or PowerPoint as a video on Mac

People create presentations in PowerPoint and Keynote for all sorts of reasons. You may have a slideshow to display your company’s products, business profile, class plan, or personal photos.

Once your presentation is complete, you might want to share it or have it displayed on a monitor without interacting with it. This is when turning your slideshow into a video or movie comes in handy.

For those situations, here’s how to export a presentation in Keynote or PowerPoint as a video on Mac.

Export Numbers and PowerPoint presentation to video

Export a Keynote as a video

1) Open the presentation you want to export in the Keynote app on your Mac.

2) Click File > Export to > Movie from the top menu bar. Your video will be saved as a .m4v file.

3) In the pop-up window, you can change the slides to include the timing between slides and resolution.

4) Click Next .

Export Keynote as Video on Mac Step1

4) Give your movie a different name, add a tag, and pick a location for the export.

5) Click Export .

Export Keynote as Video on Mac Step2

Export a PowerPoint as a video

1) Open PowerPoint on your Mac and go to the presentation you want to export.

2) Click File > Export from the menu bar.

3) In the pop-up window, you can give your movie a different name, add a tag, and pick a location for the export if you like.

4) Choose MOV under File Format . This saves the video as a .mov file.

5) You can then select the quality from Presentation, Internet, or Low, depending on what you want to do with the video. You can also change the width and height and adjust the seconds spent on each slide.

6) When you finish, click Export .

Export PowerPoint as Video on Mac

Check out next:

  • How to convert a Keynote document to a PowerPoint document
  • How to create a PDF handout or outline of your Keynote slideshow
  • List of the best keyboard shortcuts for Keynote on Mac

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Turn your presentation into a video

When you make a recording of a presentation, all its elements (narration, animation, pointer movements, timings, and so on) are saved in the presentation itself. In essence, the presentation becomes a video that your audience can watch in PowerPoint.

So you have two options for turning your presentation into a video that's ready to view:

Save/export your presentation to a video file format (.mp4 or .wmv).

Save your presentation as a PowerPoint Show (.ppsx) file. (A PowerPoint Show appears full-screen in Slide Show, ready to view immediately.)

Save as a video file

After you've created your slides and recorded any timing and narrations and laser pointer gestures that you want to include, you're ready to create a video file.

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On the File menu, select Save to ensure all your recent work has been saved in PowerPoint presentation format (.pptx).

Select  File > Export > Create a Video . (Or, on the Recording tab of the ribbon, select  Export to Video .)

In the first drop-down box under the Create a Video heading, select the video quality you want, which pertains to the resolution of the finished video. The higher the video quality, the larger the file size. (You may want to test them to determine which one meets your needs.)

Option

Resolution

For displaying on

*

3840 x 2160, largest file size

Large monitors

1920 x 1080, large file size

Computer and HD screens

1280 x 720, medium file size

Internet and DVD

852 x 480, smallest file size

Portable devices

* The Ultra HD (4K) option is only available if you're using Windows 10 or later.

The second drop-down box under the Create a Video heading tells whether your presentation includes narration and timings. (You may switch this setting if you like.)

If you haven't recorded timed narration, by default the value is Don't Use Recorded Timings and Narrations .

The default time spent on each slide is 5 seconds. You can change that timing in the Seconds to spend on each slide box. To the right of the box, select the up arrow to increase the duration, or select the down arrow to decrease the duration.

If you have recorded a timed narration, by default the value is Use Recorded Timings and Narrations .

Select  Create Video .

In the File name box, enter a file name for the video, browse for the folder that will contain this file, and then select  Save .

In the Save as type box, choose either MPEG-4 Video or Windows Media Video .

You can track the progress of the video creation by looking at the status bar at the bottom of your screen. The video creation process can take up to several hours depending on the length of the video and the complexity of the presentation.

Tip:    For a long video, you can set it up to be created overnight. That way, it’ll be ready for you the following morning.

To play your newly-created video, go to the designated folder location, and then double-click the file.

Save as a PowerPoint Show

When someone opens a PowerPoint Show file, it appears full-screen in Slide Show, rather than in edit mode. The viewer begins watching the presentation immediately.

On the File menu, select Save As .

Choose the folder location where you want to store your PowerPoint Show file.

In the Save as type box, choose PowerPoint Show (*.ppsx) .

The list of file types in PowerPoint includes "PowerPoint Show (.ppsx)".

Select Save .

Why turn your presentation into a video?

When you want to give a high-fidelity version of your presentation to colleagues or customers (either as an e-mail attachment, published to the web, on a CD or DVD), save it and let it play as a video.

You can save your presentation as either an MPEG-4 video file (.mp4) or a .wmv file. Both formats are widely supported and can be streamed over the internet.

Some tips to remember when recording your presentation as a video:

You can record and time voice narration and laser pointer movements in your video.

You can control the size of the multimedia file and the quality of your video.

You can include animations and transitions in your movie.

Viewers do not need to have PowerPoint installed on their computers to watch it.

If your presentation contains an embedded video, the video will play correctly without your needing to control it.

Depending on the content of your presentation, creating a video may take some time. Lengthy presentations and presentations with animations, transitions, and media content will likely take longer to create. Fortunately, you can continue to use PowerPoint while the video is being created

What parts of a presentation won't be included in a video?

The following items won't be included in a video that you create using PowerPoint:

Media inserted in previous versions of PowerPoint. To include these, you can convert or upgrade the media object.

For example, if you inserted the media using PowerPoint 2007, it will be linked and it will play in the presentation.  However, when you export the file as a video, the linked media will be dropped.  You can convert the file to the new file format (select the File tab, and under Info , select  Convert ), or you can right-click the media object and then select it to upgrade; it will embed the file and export it correctly.

QuickTime media (unless you have a third-party QuickTime codec named ffdShow installed and you have optimized for compatibility)

OLE/ActiveX controls

What to do with your video after creating it

After you create a video, you can share it with others by using the following methods:

Email your presentation to others

Save to a file share or other location

Upload it to your organization's Microsoft Stream video-sharing site , as described in the next section, "Save to a video-sharing site."

Save to the Microsoft video-sharing site

After you've created the video file, you can upload it to a video-sharing site. Microsoft Stream is an enterprise video service where people in an organization can upload, view, and share videos. Microsoft 365 business or education subscribers have access to this service from within PowerPoint for Microsoft 365. 

Select File > Export , and then select Publish to Microsoft Stream .

The button for publishing a video to Microsoft Stream

Type a title and a description for the video.

Set other options, including whether you want others in your organization to have permission to see the video:

Options for publishing a video to Microsoft Stream

Select the Publish button.

The upload process can take several minutes, depending on the length of the video. A status bar at the bottom of the PowerPoint window tracks the progress, and PowerPoint shows a message when the upload is finished:

PowerPoint notifies you when the upload is finished

Select the message to go directly to the video playback page on Microsoft Stream.

For more information about this service, begin reading with What is Microsoft Stream? It includes information about Office 365 Video vs. Microsoft Stream.

Option

Resolution

For displaying on

3840 x 2160, largest file size

Large monitors

1920 x 1080, large file size

Computer and HD screens

1280 x 720, medium file size

Internet and DVD

852 x 480, smallest file size

Portable devices

1 The Ultra HD (4K) option is only available if you're using Windows 10 or later. 2 In PowerPoint 2016, the Ultra HD (4K) option isn't available in the Volume License edition.

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Keynote Video: How To Make A Video With Keynote | Slide Presentation Video From Keynote Presentation

In this Keynote video, you'll learn how to make a video with Apple Keynote so that you can create a narrated slideshow video from a keynote presentation. If you've been wondering how to make a slideshow video in Keynote, how to record & export high-quality videos, this Keynote tutorial is for you

Today we’re going to talk about how to make a video with Keynote. If you plan on creating an evergreen webinar, or adding a recording of your Keynote presentation to your online course that your students can access on demand, this tutorial is for you. This strategy will save you time and energy, since once your video has been recorded, you can share it over and over again without any additional work on your end.

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To open Keynote, you can either go to finder, applications, and then select Keynote, or use the search tool in the menu up top to open the spotlight search. Start typing in Keynote, and click on the app to open it up. When you open Keynote, select the presentation you wish to add audio to, and click on 'open'.

As you can see, I've already added what I want to say in each slide to the presentation notes to make things easier on my end. To record our audio, click on 'audio' from the menu on the right, and then click 'record'. This will open up the recording page.

There are a number of things you can do from here. Under 'show navigation' on the left you can jump to a different slide with ease. Under the question mark, you can view a number of navigation, slide navigator, presenter display, movies, and other keyboard shortcuts. Under the 'layout manager', you can toggle whether you want to see on the screen the current slide, next slide, presenter notes, ready to advance indicator, clock and timer. You can exit the recording page by clicking on the x in the top right-hand corner.

Once you're ready to start your Keynote recording, click on the red record button. A 3, 2, 1, countdown will appear, and from there you'll be ready to read your presenter notes slide by slide, and record your entire Keynote presentation. Make sure you see that countdown since that's your warning that the presentation will actually be recorded.

The good thing is that just the current slide with your audio will be recorded, so even if you're reading your presenter notes and they're visible on your screen, they won't be saved in your Keynote recording. When finished recording your Keynote presentation, click on the red record button once more. If you didn't enjoy your recording, and wish to start over, you can click on 'clear' under the audio tab to delete it.

Once you're happy with your Keynote recording, and wish to export it as a video, click on 'file', 'export to', and then on 'movie'. Leave the playback as slideshow recording, and if you wish you can change the resolution from 720 pixels to 1080 pixels, or even add a custom resolution of your choice. Then click on 'next' to name your Keynote video recording, select where you wish to save it, and then click on 'export'. When we open the file up, you'll be able to see the video of your Keynote presentation with your slides and voice.

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Convert a Keynote presentation into a video file (Quicktime Movie file)

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You can use this guide for converting a Keynote 3.0 Presentation into a Quicktime Movie. This guide should also be useful for converting Keynote 2 and Keynote 1 files.

Open your Keynote presentation.

Keynote screenshot

From the menu File > Export...

Click the Quicktime button.

Change the Playback Control: to Self-Playing Movie .

Change the slide duration from the default 5 seconds if you have a lot of text to something like 10 seconds. Another option is to use audio tracks on the slides which negates the need to have a long slide duration.

Ensure that the Formats: is set to Full Quality, Large .

Save the resulting movie file to a suitable location.

Keynote will now export your presentation as a Quicktime movie.

Having done this you can now export (using Quicktime Pro or Toast) the movie into various formats.

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Tutorial: How to make animated videos with keynote

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Many creators are hoping to create professional-looking videos for your online course, but are not sure where to start. Using Keynote (or its Microsoft equivalent, PowerPoint) is a simple and fun way to make beautiful videos at home . It’s relatively easy to make an animated videos with Keynote. We’ll show you how.

Transforming Keynote to video

Animation on Keynote is kind of magical. And it’s way more powerful than you might think.

For example, we made this colorful white-boarding presentation all on Keynote. But, you probably couldn’t tell right away by just looking at it. Just think about all the weeks or months you’d have to spend learning complex animation software to get the same results. Even the process of selecting animation software is overwhelming, and can be a huge barrier to new course creators.

You can harness this power too. And it’s not nearly as difficult as you might think. Below, we’ll walk you through step-by-step how to make animated videos with Keynote (without it even looking like Keynote at all).

Step 1: Make your presentation

Create a new keynote.

how to turn a keynote presentation into a video

Create a new Keynote presentation to start. You’ll see that a new Keynote theme usually begins in “standard” size. Standard isn’t good for video, so you want wide instead.

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Select “Wide” at the top and choose the theme you want to begin with.

Set up the right dimensions

Before you start changing around colors, or adding text and images, this is the most important action you’ll take. Customize your dimensions so they fit YouTube’s high-quality resolution. This will also upload seamlessly onto Teachable’s platform.

To do this, check out the righthand bar of your Keynote program. Select Document . Then you’ll see a category below named Slide Size . Click on that, and toggle to Custom Slide Size.

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Next, enter the optimal custom slide size. We highly recommend 1920×1080 , which we will consistently use throughout the course of this tutorial on how make animated videos with Keynote.

Dimensions are really important. If you don’t get them right the first time, you’ll spend hours fixing it later.

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Customize for brand colors and fonts

Now that your dimensions are set up, you can start on the design portion. It’s easy to customize Keynote slides to fit your brand colors and fonts.

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You’ll find this customization on the right hand corner of your screen under Format > Edit Master Slide .

Editing the master slide means that you’ll pick the default colors and fonts for all the slides. This will make your life easier in the long run, because you won’t have to change font sizes, colors, and background colors every time you create a new slide.

how to turn a keynote presentation into a video

You’ll get this warning because editing master slides will change all slides. Because you haven’t made any slides yet, though, this will be an asset instead of a problem. After you’ve selected your brand fonts, colors, backgrounds and overlays, you can finally get down to creating your course content.

Add images and text

Keynote leaves you plenty of versatility to add shapes, photos, charts, GIFs.

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We especially love using their “Shape” section to animate our own videos. You can select as many of these icons as you want, then customize the color or add dimension.

For the SEO course we created, we used the free Keynote icons under “Shape” to animate the introductory video. Here’s an example of how it can look:

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Play around with animation

Once you’ve added all the imagery and text you want for each slide, you’ve finally arrived to the part that makes this program special: animation.

This is where you can bring your keynote slides to life and make them look like a professionally animated video. Think of this as a shortcut to making professional, fun, highly engaging video, with just a few clicks of a button.

how to turn a keynote presentation into a video

Click on the piece of text or image that you want to animate. Make sure you’ve toggled to the Animate button in the right hand corner, which sits between Format and Document.

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Here are what the Keynote animation features mean:

  • Build in – Whenever you build something in, it means you’re introducing that image or text to the viewer for the first time. The build in action you choose will bring your selected object into the slide.
  • Action – The action button is for any object that is already in the slide. It won’t appear, it will already be there on the screen. You’ll use this feature when you want to animate or emphasize something that’s already on the screen.
  • Build out – When you build out an object, you make that object leave the screen. The object will already be on the screen, and this exits with your build out of choice.

The best part? There are all different kinds of animations. Toggle around and hit the preview button to see what they’re like.

They’ll make your selected text or objects bounce, fly, go up in flames, burst into fireworks, or wipe away. With such a variety, you can make your videos look way more fun and engaging.

For example, in this part of my video, we used the transitions Move In , Scale , and Move Out . We also checked the Bounce box to give the objects a little pep.

how to turn a keynote presentation into a video

Other features worth mentioning when learning how to make animated videos with Keynote:

how to turn a keynote presentation into a video

  • Duration – Duration means how long the selected animation will last. You can choose between a fraction of a second and a whole minute. Play around and see what pacing fits your video best.
  • Direction – From which direction will your object appear? With most text and images, you can choose any different corner of the slide.
  • Order – This part is important. You don’t want your supporting bullet to enter the slide before your headline. You can select your chosen object and then decide its order when building in and building out. Test all of your slides together to make sure they pop up in the right order.

Want to see more keynote to video clips? Here’s another Keynote animation example of the slides.

Note that we’ve put this in GIF format for easier viewing, but the frame rates are seamless and clean in the actual video.

Step 2: Change your screen formatting

Once you’ve completed your animation, you’re ready to prepare for recording. Many people hit snags in this process because the format of their screen is different from the format of their slides.

First, download SwitchResX , or a similar screen resizing software.

how to turn a keynote presentation into a video

Once you’ve installed it, you can temporarily change the resolution size of your screen. Go to SwitchResX > Color LCD > Current Resolutions . You’ll see what your screen is already at (mine is usually set at 1680×1050).

Remember how we formatted the Keynote slides to 1920×1080 in the beginning? You’ll select the same screen resolution here to make sure your slides and your screen are perfectly aligned.

how to turn a keynote presentation into a video

You’ll notice your screen resolution shift and things will look a little different. Don’t worry, that just means it’s working. Now, you’re ready to record.

Step 3: Select your recording method

There are several different ways to record your Keynote to video once it’s ready for action. Which method you choose largely depends on your preferences, but I’ll list some pros and cons of each.

Keynote recorder

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As it turns out, Keynote has its very own recording app.

  • You can read your slideshow notes while you’re recording, without them showing up in the end product.
  • You’ll be taken to a recording “staging” area that will help you see your Keynote animations and slides one step ahead. That means you’re less likely to flub up your lines.
  • It might be hard to set up an external mic if you would prefer your own while you’re recording the slides.
  • You’ll have to do a proper recording all in one shot. It’s harder to redo recordings with this feature.

Screenflow is an app that can simultaneously record your screen and your computer audio at the same time.

  • Allows you to record your voice and slides at the same time.
  • Many people find easy to use.
  • Can be buggy.

Consider recording the screenflow first and then bring in audio recorded from an external mic in later.

how to turn a keynote presentation into a video

You can also see your Keynote program while using QuickTime. All you have to do is enter the program and then select File > New Screen Recording . You can select the entire screen instead of cropping because you’ve already formatted the screen correctly.

Once you’ve completed recording a video, make sure to export it in the correct dimensions as well. (See why we wanted you to know about all of them!)

how to turn a keynote presentation into a video

For example, with QuickTime, once the recording is over, you’ll want to save the file in the correct dimensions as well. You can do this by going to File > Export As > 1080 . This fits the YouTube-style resolution we’ve been consistently using throughout.

Step 4: Choose your assembling method

Now, it’s time to mix your animated slides and audio together.

If you’ve decided to go with a computer mic and recorded this all together on Keynote, you may even skip this step. (We do recommend that you use an external mic or headphone mic if possible. You can read more about recording quality sound here .)

If you’d like to add intro and outtro slides, music, or other effects, you’ll need video editing software to complete the job. Here are some basic options, along with the pros and cons.

Apple Movie

Apple Movie comes with Macs and has an incredibly simple user interface.

  • Very beginner friendly.
  • Drag and drop makes it easy to visualize where your animated video and audio are aligning.
  • Overly simple. Doesn’t allow you to edit your video in a more advanced way.
  • Can sometimes be more slow and clunky than more advanced programs.

Adobe Premiere Pro

Adobe Premiere Pro is the industry standard for video editing. The industry standard used to be Final Cut Pro, until their product became too similar to Apple Movie.

  • Offers advanced options for special effects, audio gain, and lighting.
  • Seamlessly integrates with AfterEffects, Audition, and all other Adobe software.
  • Is easier to layer narration, music, sound effects, and different types of visuals.
  • Costs money for a subscription.
  • Has highly advanced features that can be harder for beginners to understand.
  • Can be easy for beginners to accidentally mess up and damage their files.

Overall, the choice of video editor is yours! Do your research to see which one would best fit your needs and your process to make animated videos with Keynote.

Step 5: Triple check your dimensions

We’ve talked about dimensions a lot in this post. But this is tip a million and one: Check your dimensions throughout every step of the process when it comes to understanding the process to make animated videos with Keynote. Here is where you’ve ensured your dimensions are 1920×1080 so far:

  • Keynote slides
  • Screen resolution before recording
  • Saving the completed screen recording at the correct resolution

Next, you’ll have to look out for these, too:

  • Setting up your video editor for the correct dimensions
  • Exporting video for the correct dimensions
  • Uploading for the correct dimensions

Step 6: Upload and share

You’ve created your slides. You’ve learned how to make animated videos with Keynote. And then you’ve edited and uploaded them with the perfect dimensions in mind. Once you complete these steps, you’ll have gorgeous, animated videos built for an exceptional online course .

Still curious what they can look like? Here’s another video we produced with Keynote:

And a couple others we found online:

Those videos will look so professional and may give you the justification to charge more for your courses .

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Export Keynote Presentations as a Movie

Confession time: I’m a Keynote abuser. By that, I mean I use Apple’s presentation app for so many things that are not presentations. At least not in the bullet point-laden, text-heavy, Arial-on-a-bright-blue-background business presentation sense. I use Keynote to craft social media graphics, bring animated holiday cards to life, and even create lower thirds and animations for use in my videos and tutorials. One of Keynote’s best—yet often overlooked features—is its ability to export your creative masterpiece to a video file. I’m not sure why it’s not more well-known, as the option is right there in the Export menu.

To end up with a video from your presentation, start by building your document as you normally would. This includes builds, animations, transitions, and timings. If you leave everything set to occur with “on click,” you can set a uniform pace when it comes time to export. I generally set the timings individually, unless I’m doing a simple self-running slideshow.

If you’re going to export with transparency (see export options below), you’ll need to make sure your slide background is set to No Fill or the background color is set to 0% opacity. Set these options using the Format Inspector and/or the Color Picker. I often set a bright background color so I can see effects that are in black, then make the opacity 0% just before exporting.

Export as a video

Choose File > Export To > Movie.

Choose a Playback option

Choose Slideshow Recording if you’ve created a slideshow recording where you’ve clicked through your slides while narrating them.

Choose Self-Playing to export the presentation with set timings.

Choose which slides you want to export

To use uniform values for slides and builds you’ve set to be manually clicked, set those in the “go to next” fields. If you’ve set custom automatic timings, these values will be ignored and the timings will be honored.

Set the resolution

Choose a standard resolution of 720p or 1080p, or choose Custom and set the resolution.

Choose a compression type (only available when choosing Custom).

H.264 is the default and best for compatibility and decent file size.

If you need transparency—for layering into other video projects, for example—choose Apple ProRes 4444. Make sure that Export with Transparent Backgrounds is checked. Because of the transparent alpha file, know that these files will be much larger than the other options.

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Finish the Export

  • Choose Next, name the file and a location, then hit Export.

Depending on the options you’ve chosen, you’ll either have an m4v or an mov file. Either way, you now have your presentation in a format that can be viewed and shared easily. Whether you’re exporting to a video format to maintain the look and effects—no matter who is showing the presentation—or you need to use the exported video in another video project, exporting your Keynote presentation is quick and easy.

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Erica- thank you for your article on exporting Keynote into Videos. You seem to be a real expert and I have been working on this problem for days, possibly you have an answer. I am having trouble with changing the thumbnail in my live tile icon when I upload the video (M4V) Quicktime 7 into Onedrive. It saves the thumbnail (image that is viewed or finder icon) from a random slide in video, i need to save the thumbnail on the title slide or first slide of the video. I use Onedrive because ICloud does not allow me to send or email a link to the file to share it with others. Thanks

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using a explainer video production is better then using keynote but thanks for the tutorial i got stuck on export part every time.

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Thanks, I have Keynote 5.1.1 and needed someone to go through settings on an older version. Your explanations are easy to follow and I am a keynote novice. Also glad to hear that I may not want to upgrade to newer Keynote as this version is currently working with Sierra.

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Hi Erica Do you have the problem during exporting to Quicktime in that it only exports the first 17 seconds?

I had this using v6.6.0 and now also v7.2

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I haven’t seen that issue…I export quite long movies. I am only on 6.6.2 (I think). I wonder if it’s some animations setting…or if there is a particularly troublesome graphic on the slide at 17 seconds? Or does this happen with many files? Strange.

how to turn a keynote presentation into a video

Thank you Erica – I appreciate your sharing your knowledge as I have kept a chairman waiting for his 4 minute product video, turned into a 6 minute but he will tear much up as he has no taste…I started in TV commercials way back in 1963-66 as the messenger boy, film can under my arm with a fella who ran Pearl & Dean (Cinema Advertisements) and then as his own production company, Kenneth Hume Productions in London and he was married to Shirley Bassey (The International singer – think Goldfinger) and was also her manager…so my skills go back a long way and I ended up as an IBM agent providing all the junk the banking deregs gave us in the eighties…I ran away to Trinidad and Tobago with my Trini wife…and just wanted to make my connection with you personal in my gratitude as I thought with fixed slide changes my big movie was busted…until I tripped over your site on first search…! Sorry everyone who has to read this space taking piece but my way to say thanks to Erica…

how to turn a keynote presentation into a video

Hi Erica – I am exporting a keynote presentation with animations/transitions. I’ve done this before and think I had the same problem…once exported, the “movie” is not moving past the first slide. As I said, I think I had this problem before, and took me a while to figure it out, but I cannot figure it out now. Thanks!

I figured it out!!! I had the song on the first slide, instead of in the soundtrack area. thanks!

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Much thanks to you Erica – I value your sharing your insight as I have kept an administrator sitting tight for his 4 minute item video, transformed into a 6 minute however he will shred much as he has no taste… I began in TV advertisements path in 1963-66 as the dispatcher kid, as video explainer like this article

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Erica, I appreciate your knowledge base and hope you can provide me some guidance as I am truly struggling. I have MacBook Pro with Sonoma 14.2, keynote 13.2 and cannot get a screen recording I made of part of a YouTube video to play AFTER I export it into a movie. It plays fine when making the slideshow recording, but then doesn’t work in the final product. Can you help?

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So you want to spruce up your presentation with a little video? Cool.

Now you have to figure out how.

In this post, I’ll walk you through how to insert the clip and the tricks to creating a seamless transition from slide to video and back to slide. I’ll also show you how to avoid the embarrassment of your clip not running when you have bad WIFI. And if you stick around to the end, I’ll share mistakes to avoid and final thoughts from someone who has presented with slides to over 1,200 audiences (me.)

The old days

When I started speaking I used a dual Kodak carousel projector system handed down by my dear, late brother Dan. It was a monster of black boxes and wires that fired both projectors (on a good day) at the same time. It’s all that was available at the time, so audiences didn’t know they were missing anything.

Yes! my children that was hi-tech. I also used to waste a good 30 minutes before every speech stuffing folded business cards under projectors trying to get both images to line up on the screen. Of course, those days are long gone and you can’t even give away a carousel projector. Today, everyone uses Prezi, PowerPoint, or Keynote to wow their audiences and support their message. And some use video.

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Great presentations combine valuable content with artful presentation skills and the select use of audiovisual and audience participation.

In this post, I’m focussing on videos and slides. The real art of presenting is, of course, much more than that. Great presentations combine valuable content with artful presentation skills and the select use of audiovisual and audience participation. Like any tool, if you want to include a video, you need to know how to use it. The trick for any slide you create, including ones with video, is they have to make your speech better—not be a distraction .

WIFI and YouTube

I recently watched a fellow speaker employing the help of 3 A/V crew (who, I’m sure, had better things to do) frantically trying to get a WIFI connection. In the end, the WIFI failed and the part of the video we were able to see was, frankly, not worth the wait.

Relying on WIFI is amateurville and bound to fail at the worse time. My instructions are based on working from a video file you have safely downloaded to your computer and have permission to use. Not only is relying on hotel WIFI a bad plan, so is downloading clips off YouTube.

If you find a YouTube clip you want to use be aware that downloading it may breach Google’s community guidelines . Obviously, if it’s your video, fill your boots. Otherwise, proceed with caution. There’s plenty of advice (ironically on YouTube) on how to download videos from YouTube.

Inserting video on a MAC

Inserting videos into Keynote, on a MAC is, thankfully, pretty simple.

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  • Open a new slide, select Media > Movies. Keynote supports .mov, .mpg4, .mp3. Next, click on the movie you want and drag it to your slide.
  • You can set up Keynote to automatically convert movies in your presentation to H.264 (720 p) so they play on iOS devices. To do this, in Preferences (click on Keynote in top-left corner) click the checkbox for “Optimize movies for iOS.”
  • Click and drag the corners to resize your videos. Resize and then run the video to test the resolution. Remember when your video is projected across a conference room you are better to have the image small with high clarity, rather than try to fill the screen and risk getting a blurry image. If I do reduce the image size of my video I will make the slide background black to make the small size of the video less obvious.
  • Once inserted, Keynote offers some slick control features. Start by clicking on the movie and then going to the Format > Movie tab in the right panel.
  • To trim the start or end points, slide the Trim tab from one end or the other.
  • To change the image (from the video) that shows before the movie starts, slide the Poster Frame
  • To make the video start automatically, un-click Start movie on click
  • If you want to play a movie over a series of text slides, use the Play movie across slides feature.

Note you cannot edit out sections in the middle of the video – to do that you need to drop your clip into video editing software like Final Cut Pro or iMovie (or hire a 10-year-old.)

Inserting video on a PC

The drill on your PC for adding videos is now about as slick as a MAC. Plus, newer versions of Powerpoint will play virtually any video format, including mov, mp4, avi, mpg, and mov. To start, open a new slide, click on the movie icon (or click Insert > Movie), choose your file and click Choose. PowerPoint will ask if you want the video to play “When Clicked” or “Automatically”. I prefer to play the video automatically with a black slide before (see “Tricks with movies”, below.)

You don’t get the start/stop and Poster Frame options of a MAC, but as long as your video is one of the following, you should be good to go.

Saving to a memory stick

After accidentally clicking my remote mouse one too many times and starting my video too early I found a hack to avoid that embarrassing mistake. Before every slide with a video, I insert a blank slide with a black background. If I see that slide coming up it’s a clue that the video is next. The audience doesn’t notice, and I get the alert I need. Once I click past the black slide the video starts automatically.

If you are presenting in smaller venues, like boardrooms or small conference rooms, you’ll have your laptop with you. In those cases, you just need your remote mouse.

At larger venues with an A/V crew, presenters have to use the computers set up in the back of the room that the A/V crew supplied. Instead of begging them to connect your laptop to their equipment (which they might not be excited about doing when they are busy getting ready for the show), simply hand them a memory stick.

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If you simply download your PowerPoint deck to a memory stick, you won’t get the videos. You also won’t get any special fonts you used. To avoid this, you need to download a Package for CD. This is a folder that will include the slides, any video, and unique fonts you’ve used. Here’s how to do that:

  • In PowerPoint, click  File , click  Export , click  Package Presentation for CD , and then click  Package for CD .
  • In the  Package for CD  dialog box, type a name for your CD in the  Name the CD  box.
  • Save the Package on your memory stick.

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If you present from a different computer, use universally installed fonts, like: Ariel, Verdana, Times New Roman, Impact, Georgia, Courier New, Comic Sans MS, Trebuchet MS.

Keynote seems to travel well and I’ve never had a problem with videos playing on other machines. Note: if you are presenting from a different computer (see above), you need to use fonts that every computer comes loaded with. These include: Ariel, Verdana, Times New Roman, Impact, Georgia, Courier New, Comic Sans MS, Trebuchet MS. I made this mistake once and the text on my slides looked like Greek (and no one in the room spoke Greek.)

Mistakes to avoid

Now it’s time to list the mistakes you want to avoid. I’m sure I have made all of these (you are welcome):

  • too long – the clips I use are all between 30 seconds and 1.5 minutes long. More than that and I’m burning up valuable airtime and risking that my audience will tune out.
  • not relevant – nothing wrong with a good chuckle, but it still has to be relevant. I show a hilarious clip from a Bud Lite commercial (I think it was actually banned from showing at the Super Bowl). It’s only 30 seconds, always getting a laugh and it’s a perfect segue to my lesson on Windows .
  • too many – you have been hired (or you volunteered) to make a difference. Cramming more videos into a presentation steals your audience’s attention and the time you have to make a difference with your content.
  • poor quality – bad quality is a bad idea. Try making the video smaller on the slide. If that doesn’t improve the quality, don’t use it.
  • offensive – if you’re worried about showing it…don’t.

Final thoughts

At the end of the day, a short, entertaining video that adds to the point you are making is a good thing. Video that attempts to replace your speech is not a good thing – it’s a crutch.

I never use more than 2 short clips in a keynote and when in doubt I always resort to my favourite maxim about public speaking: nobody will miss what isn’t there. When in doubt, skip the video and deliver what they came for: great content, delivered well.

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This article outlines how you can convert presentations from Powerpoint and Keynote into video lectures for your course.

Resources for converting your presentation

Instructors can use presentations from PowerPoint or Keynote to create video lectures for their courses, provided they include audio narration and are converted into a video file format (.MP4, .WMV, or .MOV files).

Below are resources to convert a presentation to a video lecture. 

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Keynote User Guide for iPad

  • What’s new in Keynote 14.2
  • Intro to Keynote
  • Intro to images, charts, and other objects
  • Create a presentation
  • Choose how to navigate your presentation
  • Open a presentation
  • Save and name a presentation
  • Find a presentation
  • Print a presentation
  • Prevent accidental editing
  • Undo or redo changes
  • Quick navigation
  • Change the working view
  • Customize the toolbar
  • Copy text and objects between apps
  • Basic touchscreen gestures
  • Use Apple Pencil with Keynote
  • Create a presentation using VoiceOver
  • Add or delete slides
  • Add and view presenter notes
  • Reorder slides
  • Group or ungroup slides
  • Skip or unskip a slide
  • Change the slide size
  • Change a slide background
  • Add a border around a slide
  • Show or hide text placeholders
  • Show or hide slide numbers
  • Apply a slide layout
  • Add and edit slide layouts
  • Change a theme
  • Add an image
  • Add an image gallery
  • Edit an image
  • Add and edit a shape
  • Combine or break apart shapes
  • Save a shape to the shapes library
  • Add and align text inside a shape
  • Add 3D objects
  • Add lines and arrows
  • Add and edit drawings
  • Add video and audio
  • Record video and audio
  • Edit video and audio

Add live video

  • Set the movie and image formats
  • Position and align objects
  • Use alignment guides
  • Place objects inside a text box or shape
  • Layer, group, and lock objects
  • Change object transparency
  • Fill shapes and text boxes with color or an image
  • Add a border to an object
  • Add a caption or title
  • Add a reflection or shadow
  • Use object styles
  • Resize, rotate, and flip objects
  • Add linked objects to make your presentation interactive
  • Select text
  • Copy and paste text
  • Format a presentation for another language
  • Use phonetic guides
  • Use bidirectional text
  • Use vertical text
  • Change the look of text
  • Use text styles
  • Change text capitalization
  • Add drop caps
  • Make characters superscript or subscript
  • Format fractions automatically
  • Format dashes and quotation marks
  • Format Chinese, Japanese, or Korean text
  • Set tab stops
  • Format text into columns
  • Adjust line spacing
  • Format lists
  • Add mathematical equations
  • Add borders and rules (lines) to separate text
  • Add or delete a table
  • Select tables, cells, rows, and columns
  • Add or remove rows and columns
  • Move rows and columns
  • Resize rows and columns
  • Merge or unmerge cells
  • Change the look of table text
  • Show, hide, or edit a table title
  • Change table gridlines and colors
  • Use table styles
  • Resize, move, or lock a table
  • Add and edit cell content
  • Format dates, currency, and more
  • Highlight cells conditionally
  • Format tables for bidirectional text
  • Alphabetize or sort table data
  • Add or delete a chart
  • Change a chart from one type to another
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  • Move, resize, and rotate a chart
  • Change the look of data series
  • Add a legend, gridlines, and other markings
  • Change the look of chart text and labels
  • Add a chart border and background
  • Use chart styles
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  • Animate objects on a slide
  • Change build order and timing
  • Add transitions
  • Present on your iPad
  • Present on a separate display
  • Present on iPad over the internet
  • Use a remote
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  • Check spelling
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  • Find and replace text
  • Replace text automatically
  • Set your author name for comments
  • Highlight text
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  • Collaborate on a shared presentation
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  • Shared folders and collaboration
  • Use Box to collaborate
  • Create an animated GIF
  • Post your presentation in a blog
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  • Export to PowerPoint or another file format
  • Restore an earlier version of a presentation
  • Move a presentation
  • Delete a presentation
  • Password-protect a presentation
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  • Transfer files with AirDrop
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Add live video in Keynote on iPad

You can add a live video from any of your iPad’s cameras to a slide. During a presentation, the live video plays only when the slide it’s on appears. You can turn the live video source on and off at any time.

Important: During a multipresenter slideshow, only the cameras connected to the host’s Mac or device can be used as live video sources. To learn more about multipresenter slideshows, see Play a slideshow with multiple presenters .

By default, Keynote uses the camera on the front of your device to record live video, but you can also use the back cameras as sources.

the Insert Media button

A live video connected to your device’s front camera appears on the slide.

the Format button

Edit the look of a live video

Tap the live video on the slide to select it.

Do any of the following:

Zoom the camera in or out: Drag the Scale slide right to zoom in and left to zoom out.

Change the shape of a live video: Tap Mask, then select the size or shape you want.

Reshape the corners of a live video: Increase the number in the Corner Radius box to make the corners rounder, or decrease it to sharpen them.

Remove or change the background of a live video

To customize the background, tap Fill below the Background control, then choose one of the following:

A transparent background: Tap Preset, then tap No Fill (you may need to swipe left on the color options until you see it).

A color or gradient designed to go with the theme: Tap Preset, swipe left or right to see all choices, then tap a color.

Any color: Tap Color, then tap a color. To quickly preview what different colors look like in the live video, touch and hold a color, then drag across the grid to view other colors. A color label appears for each previewed color to help you reproduce an exact match. Release your finger to select a color.

A custom color: Tap Color, swipe left to the color wheel, then drag the slider around the wheel. To change color brightness, drag the top horizontal slider. To change color saturation, drag the bottom slider. To revert to the previous color, tap the circle in the center of the color wheel (the left half shows the previous color).

the Eyedropper button

An image: Tap Image, tap Change Image, then tap Choose Photo or Take Photo. To insert an image from iCloud or another service, tap “Insert from.” To change how the image fills the slide background, tap an option:

Original Size: Places the image without altering its original dimensions. To resize the image, drag the Scale slider.

Stretch: Resizes the image to fit the Live Video’s dimensions, which might change the image’s proportions.

Scale to Fill: Makes the image larger or smaller to leave no space around the image.

Scale to Fit: Resizes the image to fit the Live Video’s dimensions, but maintains the image’s proportions.

To create a tinted image, turn on Color Overlay and tap Fill to select a tint color. To make the tint more or less transparent, drag the Opacity slider.

Use a different live video source

You can change the sources connected to a live video object on your slide if you have more than one set up in your presentation.

Tap the Source button, then tap a new source from the menu.

Edit or delete live video sources

the Info button

Do one of the following:

Edit a live video source: Use the controls in the Edit Source window to make the changes you want, then tap Done.

Delete a live video source: Tap Delete Source at the bottom of the window.

Play or pause live video

To turn a live video feed on or off, do any of the following:

the Format button,

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How to Embed a YouTube Video in Keynote in 60 Seconds

Andrew Childress

Video is a great way in a Keynote presentation to add interest and illustrate your points. In this quick lesson, I'll teach you how to insert a YouTube video right into your keynote presentation. 

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to add YouTube video to Keynote.

We also have a helpful complement to this tutorial. Download our FREE eBook:  The Complete Guide to Making Great Presentations . Grab it now before you read on. 

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Note : In this tutorial we used the  Slidewerk Template . You can find more great Keynote templates on Envato Elements or on GraphicRiver . You may also want to take a look at our curated list, 15+ Best Keynote Presentation Templates . 

How to Quickly Embed a YouTube Video in Keynote

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Note: Watch this short tutorial screencast or follow the quick steps below, which complement this video.

1. Download a YouTube Video

Unfortunately, you can't directly add a YouTube video from a URL in Keynote, so you'll need to download it first. I recommend using a site like videograbber.net , as you're seeing me do here, to paste in the YouTube URL and then download the video. 

Download YouTube Video

The VideoGrabber tool prompts me to choose a resolution. I'll pick 720p resolution for my example.

2. Embed a YouTube Video in Keynote

Once we've downloaded the video, let's jump over to Keynote and go to the Insert > Choose option. Let's browse to the video that we just downloaded, you'll see the video dropped right into the presentation.

Insert YouTube Video Into Keynote

3. Set the Part of YouTube Video You Want to Play

Let's switch to the Movie tab here on the right side with the video selected. Use the Trim options here to set the part of the video that should play. Drag the handles to choose the parts that should play. Next up, you can also drag the second slider to choose a cover for the video.

Insert YouTube Video Into Keynote

4. Set Your Presentation Up So the Video Plays Automatically

You can also uncheck the Start movie on click box on the Movie tab so that you don't have to click on the movie to start it. Basically, this sets your presentation up to autoplay the embedded video. When you press the Play button for the presentation, you'll see the video start playing on the slide. 

Autoplay Your Video

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How to insert a downloaded YouTube video into Keynote

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Note 1: This article is only for converting a downloaded YouTube video to be usable in Keynote presentations. If your YT video is in a format that QuickTime supports on your Mac, you then can follow this article to add it to keynote directly.

Note 2: If you have no idea what tool you need to pull online video off from YT or are looking for an easy way to accomplish this task, either Video Downloader ( PC download , Mac download ) application or a Firefox web browser add-on — VideoDownloadHelper ( see link ) would be a nice option to go.

About Keynote

Keynote, Microsoft's PowerPoint's counterpart, is a professional presentation application used on Mac, iPad or iPhone. Keynote is characteristic of various themes, animated charts and cinematic transitions. Together with Pages and Numbers, Keynote which belongs to iWork family makes your office life easier.

Play YouTube Videos during Keynote Presentation

Whether in class presentation or lectures, Keynote is skillful at doing presentation. Impressive charts, dazzling photos and eye-catching themes play an important role in expression your ideas clearly and thoroughly. Sometimes in order to make the information more intelligible and vivid without any further explanation, videos from YouTube or other sites are necessary. A hyperlink on Keynote is possible, but some disadvantages are likely to follow. The presenter has to exit Keynote to bring up Safari to play the video online, which will influence the flow of the presentation, and that the network may not be stable and fast enough to stream the videos.

Insert a Downloaded YouTube Videos into Keynote with Ease

If you downloaded or captured a clip from YouTube but its format happens to be a format, WebM for example, which is not welcomed by Keynote (actually, there are a lot of YouTube clips are in .web extension), then you can resort to our nifty and useful tool, Video Converter for Mac .

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The software offers robust support for a wide range of file formats. It can convert pretty anything ranging from video formats like MOV, WMV, MTS, MP4, VOB, MKV, AVI to audio formats such as MP3, OGG, AAC, AC3, M4A. For converting from YouTube clips to put onto a Keynote presentation, this software can handle it effortlessly. What' more, the tool also allows you start out with basic video editing functionality to get more advanced as you go (crop, trim, add text watermark, etc). For example, you can get rip of the black bars on the top and bottom or left and right in order to make the videos look better.

For the second part of this article, we will show you how to use the tool to convert a YouTube video into a QuickTime readable format so you can use it in part of my Keynote presentation on Mac. If you want to do a conversion on PC, please switch to use Video Converter for Windows .

Step 1: Put downloaded YouTube videos onto the program

Assuming you have YouTube video that you want to embed into Keynote downloaded and saved in your Mac hard drive.

When you first run the application, a welcome panel explains that converting a video is a simple three-step process of adding files, selecting appropriate output format, converting and go.

To import YT source video to the program, first, click "Add File" button on the top menu bar or drag and drop one or more YT downloaded videos to the left side of the startup interface. (Convert individual files or a batch of files are both available.)

This program will display a thumbnail of your chosen video with included information, as you can see below:

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Step 2: Set output format and settings

For setting output profile format, simply press "Profile" drop-down menu beneath the video processing list area to open the output format selection panel.

Since Keynote only supports video and audio files that QuickTime accepts, so in "General Video" category, you're suggested to choose MPEG-4 Video (*.mp4) , H.264/MPEG-4 AVC Video (*.mp4) , MOV - QuickTime Video (*.mov) , or M4V MPEG-4 Video (*.m4v) from the expanding list to put your files onto Keynote.

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Some parameters have a little influence on the output result like Encoder, Resolution, Bitrate and Aspect Ratio. If you have a pretty good idea about these settings, you can click "Settings" next to "Profile" menu to tweak them.

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Anyone who use this app will be impressed by the presets it offers for various devices and applications, like iMovie and Final Cut Pro, Apple iPhone, Xbox One, PS4, TVs, social networking sites, as well as a wealth of Android phones.

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As is often the case that you tend to make your YT video embeded to Keynote pretty spiffy, this converter gives you options to do the most basic editing tasks: get rid of the dark frame, clip the unwanted part, adjust the video brightness, contrast, saturation and hue as well as add text & image watermark.

Step 3: Start converting your YT clips to Keynote files

Once done, you can click and review the resulting file on the right side "Preview" window to see whether it is set well, after which you can keep it in a local folder through clicking "Browse" on the bottom center of the main interface , so you can find it easily when the conversion is completed.

Now, by clicking big orange "Convert" button, your video-creation process will start. All you need to do is wait with patience until the software finishes its job.

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Step 4: Add the new created file to a slide on Keynote

After you've get the downloaded YouTube videos converted into the format you select in Step 2, you can open the local folder to check the resulting files, and ready to use them in Keynote presentation.

Launch Keynote on Mac. You can either click the "Media" icon on the toolbar, click "Movies", then drag a file from the folder to a media placeholder or to anywhere else on the slide, or simply drag a file from your computer to the Keynote slide. This way, the selected video should play when that slide is showing in your Keynote presentation.

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The best format to upload is Microsoft PowerPoint (PPTX), but Narakeet can also load PPT, PPSX and ODP files.

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Apple Keynote users: save the presentation using File ⮕ Export to ⮕ Powerpoint to create a PPTX file.

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