Decks with animated scenes

Who this is for

This is for founders with a pitch, and for marketers or salespeople presenting a product. It helps when one or two moments are easier to show than to describe, such as a workflow, a before and after, or a chart that builds.

If you want every slide static and only need something clean, you'll get less from this, and the free plans of other deck tools may do the job.

What you start from

Describe the deck, and give it something to work from if you can:

• A link.
• Pasted notes or a transcript.
• A file: PDF, Word, PowerPoint, text, Markdown or CSV.
• Several pages collected with the Capture extension, using Make a deck.

A PowerPoint file is read as source material. Don't expect a new deck to reproduce a file's template exactly, so try it before you rely on it for a company template.

What happens, step by step

1. On Home, ask for a deck, or choose + New › Deck.
2. The studio drafts an outline: layouts, speaker notes, and which moments deserve animation.
3. Review it. You choose the animated slides here, before anything is generated. Then press Approve.
4. Open the deck from Library › Decks. Each slide can be a designed graphic, an animated scene, or text with an animation.
5. Edit text, images, backgrounds and transitions, reorder slides, or ask by chat: "add a pricing slide after this one".
6. Slide checks look for low contrast, tiny text, overlaps and clipping on every slide.
7. Press Present. Arrow keys move through slides and builds, and Presenter view shows your notes, the next slide and a timer.

A deck can have up to 40 slides. More detail is in Making and presenting a deck.

What you get, and what survives export

Plan around the stills. If a slide only works in motion, its poster frame may not make sense in a PDF, so make sure each animated slide has a clear headline. Choose a share link or MP4 when the motion matters.

There's no Google Slides export. Speaker notes stay private on a share link, and the link always shows the latest saved version. You can revoke it at any time. You can also add a sign-up card after the last slide, and sign-ups go to Publish › Leads. See collecting emails.

What it costs

The outline is one planning call, shown as 1 credit and settled to the AI used. Graphic slides use no credits to render. Each animated slide is priced like an animation, and you choose them before anything is generated.

Those figures are our arithmetic from a typical animation at about 63 credits and $0.10 a credit, so treat them as a guide. The studio shows an estimate before you run anything. Three animated slides would use over half of Starter's 350 credits ($29 a month), and the 120 credits on the trial cover about one. With your own AI key, count one animation from your allowance for each scene. Pricing has the full table.

When another route is better

• You want a free plan, or docs and web pages as well. Gamma starts with 400 credits that don't refresh, and it builds decks, docs and sites.
• You need Google Slides. We export PowerPoint, PDF and MP4 only.
• Your deck must stay on a strict company template. Test that first, because you may be better off in PowerPoint itself.
• You want live animations inside a PowerPoint file. Animated slides come through as stills. Keep the MP4 or share link for those moments.

A brief you can paste

This uses a made-up company. Attach your notes as a file if you have them.

"A 10-slide seed pitch for Acme Invoices, an invoicing app for freelancers. Slides: title, problem, solution, product, how it works, market, business model, traction, team, the ask. Make the how it works slide an animated scene showing a timesheet becoming an invoice and then being paid. Keep all other slides as designed graphics. Leave traction and market as clear placeholders for me to fill in, and don't invent any numbers. Write speaker notes of two or three sentences per slide."

Common questions