Storyboard
Lay a PDF out as slides before you build anything.
Every slide gets a headline, the two or three lines that belong on screen, the narration underneath, and a duration. Preview it landscape, vertical, or square, and export the whole plan as CSV.
- Separates what goes on screen from what gets said — the distinction most decks get wrong.
- Times slides against their own narration instead of a fixed hold.
- Exports every slide as CSV, whatever the document's length.
On-screen text and narration are not the same text
The failure mode of every automatic slideshow maker is putting the paragraph on the slide and then reading the paragraph aloud. The viewer reads faster than the narrator speaks, finishes early, and disengages — which is why so many auto-generated explainers feel dead.
This storyboard splits the two. Each slide gets a headline and two or three condensed on-screen lines pulled from that section's strongest sentences, while the full narration sits underneath as speaker text. Same source, two registers, which is how a slide is supposed to work.
- Headlines come from the document's own section headings.
- On-screen lines are truncated to fit a real frame, not a text box that scrolls.
- Narration keeps the full prose, so nothing is lost.
Why fixed slide timings feel wrong
Set every slide to eight seconds and half of them linger while the other half vanish mid-sentence. The default here paces each slide by the length of its own narration, which is the same rule a human editor applies without thinking about it.
The fixed options are still there, because sometimes you want a metronome — a background loop for a stand at a conference, say. The tool shows you the runtime both ways so the choice is informed.
From storyboard to a video you can post
The CSV export is the complete plan: slide number, headline, on-screen lines, narration, and seconds. You can build from it in any editor, and plenty of people will.
Rendering it here skips that step. The same storyboard gets typeset in a branded template, narrated in the voice you choose, and exported as an MP4 in each aspect ratio you need — which is the point at which one document becomes a LinkedIn post, a YouTube upload, and a Shorts clip rather than three separate jobs.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does it use the images from my PDF?
The free storyboard is text-only — it plans the structure. Figures and charts from your document are placed into the frames when the video is rendered with an account.
Why does the preview show only the first five slides?
To keep the page fast. The CSV export contains every slide in the document, however long it is, and it is free.
Can one document produce landscape and vertical versions?
Yes. Switch the frame shape and the storyboard re-flows — vertical frames fit an extra on-screen line. Rendering produces a separate MP4 per ratio from the same source.
Is this a PowerPoint converter?
No — it produces a storyboard and, with an account, a video. If you specifically need editable .pptx slides, use a PDF-to-PowerPoint converter instead. This is for the case where the deck was only ever going to become a video.