What is Red Giant Presto?
Red Giant Presto is a time-saving tool that quickly turns a live presentation event into a high quality video. Used with your favorite editing platform, Presto imports a timeline with footage of the presenter and matches it to the original presentation slides. Presto takes care of the tedious production work: tracking the presenter’s movements, switching slides at the right time, instantly rearranging the layout. And presto! The result is a professionally designed video that lets you share a presentation as soon it’s ended.
For a quick video introduction to Presto for
Final Cut Pro, watch this video tutorial.
For a quick video introduction to Presto for
Adobe Premiere Pro, watch this video tutorial.
For a quick video introduction to Presto for
Sony Vegas Pro, watch this video tutorial.
The Presto workflow for Mac
- Record a video of your presenter with one camera and a video of the
projection screen with a second camera, preferably with presenter audio on
both cameras. For more info, see How to Record an Event and look at our sample project.
- Convert your PowerPoint or Keynote presentation into image files. See How to Convert a PPT or Keynote
File.
- Start a project in Final Cut Pro or Premiere Pro. Place your screen video on the lowest video track, and your presenter video on the second track. Make sure they are in sync; you can do this quickly and accurately with our PluralEyes software. Trim off any unwanted video.
Premiere Pro users: Export your project from Premiere using File > Export > Final Cut Pro... This will save an FCP XML file.
- Start the Presto application and import your project.
FCP users: In Presto, select the Final Cut Pro import tab. Select your FCP project and sequence from the pop-up menus, and press the Get Sequence button.
Premiere Pro users: Select the Premiere Pro import tab and press the Import FCP XML... button. Select the FCP XML file you exported from Premiere Pro, or the FCP XML file that was generated by PluralEyes after synchronizing.
- The Presto wizard will lead you through the steps of adding your slide images, applying
Presto's automatic processing, and
fine-tuning the appearance of the presentation.
- Send your Presto project back to Final Cut Pro or Premiere Pro for any
final editing and for rendering.
The Presto workflow for Windows
- Record a video of your presenter with one camera and a video of the
projection screen with a second camera, preferably with presenter audio on
both cameras. For more info, see How to Record an Event and look at our sample project.
- Convert your PowerPoint or Keynote presentation into image files. See How to Convert a PPT or Keynote
File.
- Start Vegas Pro, then create a new project
- Start Presto from the Vegas Pro menu item Views > Extensions > Presto.
- The Presto wizard will take you through the steps of adding your source media, processing it, fine tuning the appearance of the presentation, and rendering your presentation video.
- Continue editing in Vegas Pro if needed.