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# Import PowerPoint
Convert PowerPoint presentations into engaging AI-narrated videos using Synthesia.
Transform your slide decks into shareable, narrated video content without needing cameras or editors.
### **Note:**
PowerPoint files uploaded through Assistant use a separate import path from the standalone `Import PowerPoint` flow described on this page, and the capabilities described below don't apply to it.
## Convert a PowerPoint presentation to video
### To import a PowerPoint presentation:
1. From the Synthesia homepage, select `Import PowerPoint` and upload your `.pptx` file:
1. **Maximum file size:** 1GB
2. **Maximum number of slides supported:** 150 slides
3. **Supported file format:** `.pptx`
4. **Aspect ratio:** 4:3 dimension PowerPoints are converted to 16:9
5. **Important notes on text and fonts:**
1. Fonts must be embedded in your PowerPoint file to display correctly in Synthesia.
2. If a font is missing, you can select a replacement or upload the original font file, except for tables (see [Tables](#tables)). Basic and Starter plans don't support custom font uploads.
3. SmartArt text is non-editable, and is added as part of the static background.
4. Lists are imported with a maximum of two levels of indentation, for both numbered and bulleted formats. Deeper levels are not supported
2. Under `More options`, configure:
* **Auto-populate script**: Generates each scene's script from the slide's speaker notes.
* If a slide has no speaker notes, the script is generated from the slide's text content instead.
* **Note:** Requires **Convert slides to editable text, shapes, and media** to be enabled.
* **Convert slides to editable text, shapes, and media**: Imports text boxes, shapes, images, videos, and tables as editable elements. You'll then be able to:
* Animate all imported elements in Synthesia (animations are not imported from PowerPoint files)
* Change the size, color, and positioning of shapes
* Adjust the font styles and positioning of imported text elements.
* Trim and adjust playback for imported videos to ensure they sync with your script
* Edit imported table content (see [Tables](#tables) below)
* **Add avatar to each scene**: Adds an avatar to every imported scene. If this is off, scenes import without an avatar, and you can add avatars yourself in the editor.
3. Select `Import`.
4. Edit the video using Synthesia's tools — edit text, add/remove images and videos, add animations and transitions, and more.
5. Click **Generate Video** to create your video presentation.
## Layout and text fidelity
The editor preserves your source deck's text formatting and spacing:
* **Line height** is set per line, so differently sized text on the same slide keeps proportional spacing.
* **Paragraph spacing** (space before and space after) carries over from the source file.
* **Bullet and numbered list characters** match the size, color, and text alignment of their associated text.
## Tables
Tables import as editable elements: cells and rows resize based on their content, and table text can be edited.
* Tables are imported as [motion graphics](https://docs.synthesia.io/docs/motion-graphics), so edit their text using the [motion graphic text-editing flow](https://docs.synthesia.io/docs/motion-graphics#edit-text) rather than as a standard text box.
* Tables share the same editing constraints as other motion graphics: you can edit table text, but you can't regenerate a table's style or layout with a prompt.
* Font replacement doesn't apply to tables.
# Sibling pages
* [Assistant](https://docs.synthesia.io/docs/assistant.md)
* [Templates](https://docs.synthesia.io/docs/synthesia-templates.md)