How to Convert a PowerPoint or Keynote file to Slides
PNG is the recommended export format for generating high-quality slide images
for your presentation video. However, Presto can work with a wide range of
image formats, including:
- Windows bitmap - BMP, DIB
- JPEG - JPEG, JPG, JPE
- Portable Network Graphics - PNG
- Portable image format - PBM, PGM, PPM
- Sun rasters - SR, RAS
- TIFF files - TIFF, TIF
Converting from Microsoft PowerPoint
To convert PowerPoint slides to images:
- Open the presentation in PowerPoint.
- Choose Save As...
- From the file type drop-down menu, select PNG Portable Network Graphics
Format.
- Type a filename, choose a location for the files, then click Save.
- After you click OK, PowerPoint will present the following dialog. Select Every Slide, and PowerPoint will create a folder with
the name you specified. Your PNG slide images are in this folder.

Converting from Apple Keynote
To convert Keynote slides to images:
- Open the presentation in Keynote.
- Choose Share > Export, then click Images.
- Specify whether to create a file for every slide or for a range of
slides.
- To create a separate image for each build stage, select Create an image
for each stage of builds.
- Choose a format option from the format pop-up menu (preferably PNG, as noted
above). If you
choose JPEG format, use the Quality controls to specify a high-quality
output.
- Click Next.
- Type a filename, choose a location for the files, then click Export.
Renaming slide files using
Windows Explorer
If a single presentation video is based on multiple presentations — for example, you
have several PowerPoint or Keynote presentation files to work with — you may
need to rename the slide image files that you export from PowerPoint or Keynote,
because Presto requires that each slide image has a unique filename.
In Windows Explorer, it's easy to rename a group of slide image files. When you select multiple files in a folder, Windows automatically adds a number
in parenthesis after each filename. The following steps explain how to use this
multiple file renaming feature:
- First, make sure all the slide files are sorted by name, then select them all, as illustrated below.

- Right-click on the first item and choose Rename from the drop-down menu.

- The text of the first item will now be selected, as illustrated below. Type a name for this presentation that is unique and will ensure that the
multiple presentations sort in the correct order (like Presentation 1,
Presentation 2, and so on).

- Now when you press Enter, Windows will rename all the files, adding a
number in parenthesis to make each filename unique, as illustrated below.
