Documents to video

Turn a PDF or a slide deck into an explainer video

A manual, a lesson plan or a deck already holds the teaching. TimaLens reads it — headings, labels, diagrams, tables and speaker notes — and turns it into a narrated whiteboard video, one idea per scene.

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How it works

  1. 1

    Import the file

    PDF, PowerPoint (.pptx), TXT, Markdown or JSON, up to 10 MB. Its structure and order are preserved.

  2. 2

    Review before spending anything

    The extracted content appears in the editor. Adjust it, pick a voice, a format and a drawing style.

  3. 3

    Get a narrated whiteboard video

    Each scene is drawn as it is narrated, with your own images placed where they belong.

What you get

  • Keeps the document's teaching order, labels and numbers
  • Speaker notes become narration rather than being dropped
  • Charts and processes use animated templates instead of flat screenshots
  • Landscape for a course, vertical for a phone

Document import is available on every plan, including the free one. Attaching your own images or a recording needs Creator.

Working from slides instead

A .pptx deck is read the same way as a PDF — slide order, titles, bullet levels, tables and speaker notes — and Google Slides or Keynote work once exported to either format.

Turning a deck into a video

What it costs

  • Free to start: one video, no card asked for.
  • Paid plans from $9 a month, and one credit is one finished minute of video.
  • Importing a document is free on every plan.
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Who it is for

Instructional designers with a workbook, teams with onboarding documents, and anyone sitting on slides nobody watches.

Questions

Can I use a PowerPoint deck instead?
Yes. Export it as .pptx or PDF and the slide order, titles, bullets, tables and speaker notes are all read. PowerPoint's own export makes a video of the slides; this makes a whiteboard lesson out of what they teach.
What does it cost?
Importing a document is free on every plan, and a free account can make one video without giving a card. Paid plans start at $9 a month, where one credit buys one finished minute of video.
Does it just read my slides aloud?
No. It plans scenes from what the document teaches, then writes narration for each one. You review the result before any credit is spent.
What happens to diagrams in the file?
They inform the scene plan, and the ideas they carry are redrawn as whiteboard animations. You can also attach the original images to be shown as they are.
Can I keep my exact wording?
Yes — paste it into exact script mode and TimaLens speaks it word for word.

Other ways to make a video

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