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Your First Video From PowerPoint

TL;DR; Grab a PowerPoint deck, put a short narration in the speaker notes of each slide, upload it at lupo.ai/projects/slides, and wait for the email with your video. Total time: about ten minutes for a short deck.

This page walks you through your very first video. If you've never used Lupo before, start here.

1. Pick a deck you already have

You don't need a perfect presentation. You need one you know well. Pick something small — 5 to 15 slides — that you could already explain out loud to a coworker. A team onboarding deck, a product walkthrough, an SOP summary, a piece of a training you've given before. That's the sweet spot.

If you don't have one handy, download any deck from your shared drive and use it.

2. Add narrations in the speaker notes

Open the PowerPoint file. For each slide, write a short paragraph in the speaker notes area at the bottom of PowerPoint. That paragraph is what Lupo will narrate.

A few tips that make a big difference:

  • Write the way you'd speak it. If it would sound weird out loud, it will sound weird in the video. Short sentences beat long ones.
  • One idea per slide. The narration should explain the idea on the slide, not cover three unrelated ones.
  • Skip the jargon. If your learner is new, define terms the first time you use them.
  • Aim for 30–90 seconds per slide. Longer than that and learners tune out. Shorter than that and the video feels choppy.

You don't have to get this perfect. If you want Lupo to draft the narration for you instead, skip this step — we'll come back to it in Generate Narration From PowerPoint.

PowerPoint slide with narration visible in the speaker notes area

3. Upload the file to Lupo

Go to lupo.ai/projects/slides, sign in, and drag your .pptx file onto the page. Give the project a clear name — something you'll recognize a week from now.

Click Create.

Upload page at lupo.ai/projects/slides with a file selected

That's it. Lupo starts generating the video in the background. You can close the browser tab — it won't cancel anything.

4. Wait for the email

Depending on how long the deck is, you'll get an email from Lupo in anywhere from a couple of minutes to a few minutes with a link back to your project. The email is your signal that the video is ready.

Your video is ready email from Lupo

Click the link, watch the video, and see what Lupo did. The video will have each slide rendered as a scene with the narration synced underneath. If you embedded any videos inside the PowerPoint, those will play in place too.

5. What to do if it's not quite right

Two things will happen on your first video:

  1. You'll notice something you want to change. Great. Open the PowerPoint, fix the narration in the notes, re-upload. The second version is usually the keeper.
  2. You'll want a better voice, a different language, or a specific name pronounced correctly. All of that is possible. See Voices and Languages.

Next steps

Now that you've made one video, go see the other ways Lupo can do the same job: