Can PowerPoint export a video?

Yes — you can record narration and timings and save the presentation as an MP4. It is the fastest route when the slides themselves are the content.

What should I paste in if I already have a deck?

The speaker notes. They are the half of the deck written in sentences, which is exactly what a narrated film needs.

How long will a converted deck be?

You choose 30, 60 or 120 seconds and the script is held to it. About 150 words per minute is a safe estimate when you are trimming.

100 credits per minute — £9 or US$12 as a one-off pack, or about £4.90 a minute on the Pro plan. The 100 welcome credits cover your first minute.

Turning a deck into video: PowerPoint export or an explainer?

One real deck, converted both ways, with every line that had to change.

PowerPoint will export your deck as an MP4 with recorded narration, and for an internal walkthrough that is often all you need. It stops being enough when the audience is outside your company: slides are built to support a speaker, so on their own they read as bullet points with a voice over them. A narrated explainer starts from what you would have said out loud, which is usually the better half of the deck anyway.

The short answer

Export the deck when the audience already knows the context and the slides are genuinely the content — a numbers review, a training walkthrough, a handover. Microsoft's own apps will record narration and timings and save the file as video, and that costs you nothing beyond the licence you already pay for.

Write an explainer when the audience is cold. A cold viewer does not read your bullets; they follow a voice. Once you accept that, the thing worth keeping from the deck is the speaker notes, not the slides.

Who each option suits

Export the deck — internal updates, training modules, board or investor walkthroughs where the charts must appear exactly as drawn.
Write an explainer — website pages, ads, onboarding, sales follow-ups, anything a stranger clicks on and can leave in four seconds.
Both — record the deck for the people who need the detail, and publish a sixty-second explainer as the front door to it.

Sourced comparison

Microsoft figures read from Microsoft's own plan comparison page on 13 September 2026; Microsoft lists Microsoft 365 Personal at US$9.99 a month or US$99.99 a year. AutoScribble figures from our live plan and credit-pack records, same date.

	PowerPoint export	AutoScribble
Starting point	A deck you have already built	A brief, a pasted script, or the speaker notes from that deck
Narration	You record your own voice, slide by slide	Four narration voices, two female and two male
Visuals	Exactly your slides	Hand-drawn scenes drawn to the script
Price	Covered by Microsoft 365 Personal at US$9.99 a month or US$99.99 a year, per Microsoft's plan comparison page	Credit packs from £9 / US$12 for 100 credits; Starter £19 / US$25 a month for 300 credits
Cost per finished minute	Your time recording and re-recording	100 credits — £9 / US$12 one-off, or about £4.90 a minute on the Pro plan
Fixing one line	Re-record that slide and re-export	Edit the line, remake, credit cost shown before you confirm
Length control	However long you talk	30, 60 or 120 seconds treated as a hard constraint on the script
Portrait for social	Resize the deck and rebuild	Portrait 9:16 is the default; landscape and square also available
Getting it out	Export the file	One-click MP4, expiring private share links, email sharing, caption-ready hand-offs

Microsoft pricing from microsoft.com/microsoft-365 plan comparison, checked 13 September 2026. AutoScribble pricing from live records, same date.

One deck, converted both ways

This is the original element of this page. A four-slide onboarding deck for a payroll product, first as it exists, then as the script that came out of it. The changes are the interesting part.

Rule of thumb: the script is hiding in your speaker notes, not your slides.
If a slide has three nouns on it, it becomes one sentence — or it goes.
Read the result aloud with a stopwatch. Roughly 150 words is a minute, so a 60-second order is a 140-to-160 word script.

THE DECK (as written for a speaker)
Slide 1 — "Payroll onboarding" / logo
Slide 2 — "Key benefits: compliance • accuracy • time saved"
Slide 3 — "Implementation: discovery → data migration → parallel run → go live"
Slide 4 — "Questions?"

THE SAME DECK AS A 60-SECOND SCRIPT
"The first payroll run after a switch is the one everybody dreads. So here is exactly how yours will go.
Week one, we sit down and list what you actually pay: salaries, the odd commission, the three people on unusual contracts. Nothing is assumed.
Week two, we move the data across and check it against your last two runs, line by line, until the totals match.
Week three, we run the new system alongside your old one. Same period, same people, two sets of numbers. If they agree, you are ready.
Week four, you go live — and the first run is the one we already rehearsed.
That is the whole thing. No surprises in month one."

WHAT HAD TO CHANGE
• Slide 2's three benefit words were cut entirely. "Compliance, accuracy, time saved" means nothing to someone who has not bought yet.
• The four-stage arrow on slide 3 became four sentences in order, each with something happening in it.
• The title slide became a hook: the fear the reader already has, said out loud in the first line.
• "Questions?" became a closing promise, because nobody can ask a video anything.
• Every number the speaker would have said aloud went into the script. The deck had none of them.

When exporting the deck is the better choice

Keep the deck when the visuals carry information a drawing cannot: a real chart, a screenshot of your own product, an org diagram someone will pause on, a regulated document that has to be shown exactly as approved.

Keep it too when the person speaking is part of the message. An internal update from a named leader lands better in their own voice, bullet points and all.

What you get here

Paste the speaker notes rather than the slides. Inputs are a typed brief, pasted text, or an uploaded plain-text or markdown file, and you approve the script before anything is drawn.

Four choices: orientation, narration voice, length, and an optional logo — including a real company logo resolved from the script where supported.
Films are private to your account unless you opt into the public gallery.
Come in shorter than ordered and you are billed on the actual seconds, with the difference refunded.

Your next step

Copy the speaker notes from one slide deck and paste them here. The first minute is free. Also useful: document to video if you would rather start from the file, and how long should an explainer video be before you pick a length.

If your deck is closer to an animated slideshow than a presentation, it is worth reading whiteboard video or an animated slideshow before you export anything.

Try it on your own script

Free to write and rewrite. Credits are only used when you generate.

Common questions

Can PowerPoint export a video?: Yes — you can record narration and timings and save the presentation as an MP4. It is the fastest route when the slides themselves are the content.
What should I paste in if I already have a deck?: The speaker notes. They are the half of the deck written in sentences, which is exactly what a narrated film needs.
How long will a converted deck be?: You choose 30, 60 or 120 seconds and the script is held to it. About 150 words per minute is a safe estimate when you are trimming.
What does it cost?: 100 credits per minute — £9 or US$12 as a one-off pack, or about £4.90 a minute on the Pro plan. The 100 welcome credits cover your first minute.