Using the Presto Wizard for Mac

This section shows Step 2 of 5 for creating a Presto project with your presentation slides and videos from either FCP or Premiere Pro. Go to Step 3.

 

Step 2: Add Slides

Before you can import the images into Presto, you will first need to export them from a Keynote or PowerPoint presentation. See here for instructions on exporting slide images from Keynote and PowerPoint.

We recommend you export images into the PNG format for best results. Presto supports PNG, JPG, BMP, GIF, and TIFF formats.

Click the Add Slide Files... button to select and import the slide images.

You can also drag image files from the Finder into the slide view.

If slide images are not available for the presentation, check the No slides available checkbox.

 

Add Slides wizard tab prior to adding slides

Import your slide images into Presto using the Add Slides tab.

 

After slides are imported

After you have imported the slides, you should confirm that they correspond to the video you have on the screen video track. If you are doing a whole series of presentations it is very easy to import the wrong images! Avoid adding slides that are not included in the presentation.

The order of slides in the slide viewer is important! It should be a reasonably close match to the order in which the slides were presented. Presto's automatic processing will likely be slower if the slides are significantly out of order.

You can get a closer look at the slides by dragging the zoom slider below the slide view.

As soon as you import some slides, Presto automatically creates an empty slide track. Presto will automatically populate the slide track with the slide images in the next tab (Step 3. Process).

You can drag slides within the slide view to change their order.

To remove slides from the slide view, select the unwanted slides, and right click in the slide view. Choose Remove selected slides. This does not delete the slide image files. It just removes them from the slide viewer.

When you are happy with the imported slides, click the Next: Process button to move to the next step.

 

Add Slides wzard tab after importing slides

Make sure the slides you imported correspond to the screen video you are using.

 

 

Advanced option – Manual slide placement

You can manually place slides at any time if you wish. Note, however, that in most instances Presto will do this a lot faster than you can, so normally you will want to try the automatic processing first.

To manually place slide images on the slide track, select one or more slides in the slide viewer and drag them to the slide track. Hold down Option while dragging for fit-to-fill (i.e. so that the duration of each selected slide is automatically adjusted to fit the available space on the timeline).

You can also drag image files from the Finder directly onto the slide track. These files are NOT added to the slide view, and are NOT included in Presto's automatic processing.

You can easily adjust the timing for each slide to match the timing on the screen video as follows: