How to import PPT & PDF presentations 📄

If you have an existing PPTx presentation or a PDF document, you can easily import it into Colossyan to start making your AI video right away.

📍 Important: Currently, we support PDF versions 1.3, 1.5, 1.6 and 1.7. This means we do not yet support PDF 1.4 and PDF 2.0.

Import a PDF or PPTx

Step 1

Select the "Import" button from the home screen

Step 2

Upload your document.

Step 3

Start editing your draft.

 

• If you use a PDF, each page will turn into a static background image for your scenes. You won't be able to edit the content of the PDF in Colossyan. This is helpful when you want your designs to stay the same and just need to add narration.
  
  
• If you use a PPTX file, each slide will turn into a static background image for your scenes. You won't be able to edit the content of the slides in Colossyan. An improved PowerPoint import feature is in development. You can learn more in ⚠️ BETA PPT V2 Limitations

Step 4

When you're ready, preview and generate your video.

Your finished video will appear in the videos section of your home page.

⚠️ BETA PPT V2 Limitations

• Some textboxes and images might need fine-tuning after import. (e.g. changing fonts, resizing).

• Charts and other special media will appear as screenshots.

• If the object is non-rectangular and transparent, the screenshot may contain part of the background.

• Slides with multiple objects may get imported as screenshots.

• If the objects are overlapping, the screenshots will too, and this could cause unintuitive and strange results.

• In case the overlapping objects are part of a group, the group will be imported as a screenshot. This causes certain objects that could otherwise be translated (e.g. textboxes) to be replaced by a screenshot.

• Some colours may show up incorrectly; in this case, we recommend inserting a screenshot instead (where applicable).

• Older presentations may have a resolution that has to be adjusted in Colossyan.

• Non-cross-platform images (e.g. WMF on Windows) may be rendered differently. This mostly affects old PowerPoint presentations.

• Currently, there’s no rich text editing in the editor, so the texts must be “reduced” before importing to a draft:

  • Enumeration, tabulations, special characters

  • Partially formatted texts (e.g. if one word is italic, that formatting is dropped).

    • In case of multiple colours, font sizes (or any other property), the workaround is to apply the last paragraph’s properties.

  • Vertical alignment

  • Layouts may contain settings for conditional formatting based on paragraph levels (e.g. headers are formatted with 46px, subheaders are formatted with 40px)

  • The same applies to speaker notes that have formatting.

Please bear with us as we constantly work on improving our PowerPoint import.

Since this is a beta release, all the feedback and insights we get now will help us improve this feature.