Canva to video: turn your design into a branded marketing video
Export your Canva design or presentation as a PPTX or PDF, then drop it in. ngram reads the page order, the on-design text, and the visuals, then builds a scene-by-scene video with voiceover, captions, and brand styling.
Trusted by teams at
How it works
Export from Canva, drop it in, ship a video in minutes.
No screen recording the Canva editor, no separate voiceover pass, no rebuilding the design in a video tool. Download the design as PPTX or PDF, accept the storyboard, ship a branded video.
Export the design from Canva
In Canva, open Share and pick Download as PowerPoint (PPTX) or Download as PDF. That export carries your page order, text, and visuals out of the editor and into a file ngram can read.
Drop the file in
Upload the PPTX or PDF up to 100 MB, or paste the talk track if you'd rather skip the export. ngram pulls page order, on-design copy, and embedded images, no manual outline required.
ngram plans the scenes
Every Canva page becomes a scene. Headlines turn into hooks, body copy gets rewritten into narration, and the graphics, charts, and product shots you designed become the on-screen visuals.
Review and export the video
Walk the scene-by-scene storyboard, reorder pages, swap the voice, or rewrite a line in plain language. Then render an MP4 in 16:9, 1:1, or 9:16 with captions and your brand styling burned in.
Output controls
Your Canva design, reimagined as motion, with real controls underneath.
Per-page scene split
Each Canva page becomes its own scene, with timing tuned to how much copy sits on the design. Merge two sparse pages into one scene, or split a dense infographic into two, without going back to the Canva editor.
Narration from your page copy
ngram reads the headlines and body text you wrote in Canva and drafts a talk track from them. Paste your own narration to override it, or rewrite any line in chat before the voiceover renders.
Reframed for every channel
One Canva design, three aspect ratios. 16:9 for YouTube and embeds, 1:1 for the LinkedIn feed, 9:16 for Reels and Shorts, with smart reframing so the layout you designed still reads on each crop.
Brand Kit over the Canva look
Apply your ngram brand kit (logo, colors, fonts, intro and outro cards, motion style) on top of the exported design, so a video built from a marketing template still ships as your brand, not Canva's.
Burned-in captions per scene
Auto-generated captions, styled to brand and anchored to each scene's narration. Most Canva-derived videos get watched muted in a feed, so captions ship on by default. Edit a script line and the caption follows.
Localize the design in one pass
Translate the script and captions, regenerate the voiceover in the target language, and re-render from the same Canva export. Useful when one social design needs to run in several markets.
Motion on static graphics
The charts, stat blocks, and icon rows you laid out flat in Canva get animated callouts and staged reveals instead of appearing all at once, so a still design plays like a produced clip.
Security and data handling
Your uploaded design stays in your workspace, and you can delete your account and data anytime from Settings. Talk to sales about security, access controls, and data handling for your team.
The rest of ngram
The Canva-to-video step is one node. The rest of the product picks up where the design ends.
Slide Animator
The engine that reads your exported Canva pages. Each page is parsed into a scene blueprint with its headline, body copy, and embedded graphics before anything renders, so the video tracks the design you built.
Learn moreScript Generation
The text on your Canva pages becomes a full talk track. Where a design page is mostly visual with little copy, the agent drafts a narration line from the headline and lets you rewrite it in chat.
Learn moreAI Voiceover
Pair the design with a brand voice from ElevenLabs or MiniMax. Slow the pacing on a dense infographic page, lift the energy on the closing CTA card, all described in plain language.
Learn moreCaptions
Auto-burned captions per scene, styled to the brand kit. They matter here because a Canva social design almost always lands in a muted LinkedIn or Instagram feed where the caption is the message.
Learn moreBrand Kit
Logo, colors, fonts, intro, outro, and motion style applied to every scene. Keeps the video on-brand even when the source design started from a generic Canva template the whole internet has.
Learn moreMulti-format Export
One Canva export, three aspect ratios. 16:9 for the website embed, 1:1 for LinkedIn, 9:16 for the Reels teaser, rendered in a single pass with smart reframing per ratio.
Learn moreUse cases
Canva designs that earn a second life as video.
Launch designs shipped as a public video
The launch graphics you built in Canva become the public video the marketing team posts on LinkedIn, YouTube, and the launch page. Same artwork, now narrated and timed.
See use caseStatic social designs as scroll-stopping clips
A Canva carousel or single-image post becomes a short looping video with motion and captions, the version of the post that actually stops the scroll in a muted feed.
See use caseCanva pitch decks that work after the call
Export the rep-built Canva pitch deck and turn it into a self-running video the prospect can forward to the rest of the buying committee, no calendar invite required.
See use caseConcept designs as explainer videos
An idea you sketched out across a few Canva pages becomes the explainer you embed on the landing page. Same visual logic, now with narration and branded pacing.
See use caseTraining designs as self-paced modules
The course or onboarding deck you laid out in Canva becomes a narrated video module learners can replay, without booking another live session to walk the slides.
See use caseOnboarding designs customers finish
Swap the long Canva onboarding PDF attached to the welcome email for a short branded video. Same steps, much higher completion than a static document gets.
See use caseCreator designs as short-form video
Turn the Canva templates you built for a post into ready-to-publish vertical clips, so the same design feeds the feed in both static and video form.
See use caseAll-hands designs as async video
The all-hands or culture deck you designed in Canva turns into an async video for everyone who missed the meeting. Captioned, on-brand, watchable in any timezone.
See use caseOther converters
Different source, same engine.
Canva to video shares the scene planner, brand kit, voiceover stack, and export pipeline with the rest of ngram's converters. If your design left the editor in another format, there's a direct path for it.
The closest sibling. A Canva Download as PowerPoint lands as a PPTX, the same file the PPT-to-video pipeline reads page by page.
Open converterDownloaded the Canva design as a PDF instead? Send the PDF straight in. The PDF pipeline reads the same pages without a PPTX conversion in between.
Open converterIf the deck moved from Canva into Google Slides, convert the Slides deck directly instead of round-tripping back through a Canva export.
Open converterTools that pair with this converter
What you reach for around the Canva conversion.
Editing the design-video further
Once the first cut is back from your Canva pages
Video Editor
Trim a scene that runs long, reorder two pages, or drop a B-roll clip between two design-scenes on a real timeline, the frame-level view of the Canva-derived draft.
Open toolAdd Subtitles to Video
If a design-video lands without captions, burn in styled subtitles per scene so the muted-feed viewers who see your Canva social post as video can still follow it.
Open toolVideo Cutter
Pull the strongest 30-second scene out of the design-video for a teaser, cut straight from the same Canva export rather than re-editing the design.
Open toolAdd Music to Video
Lay a licensed track under the narration of the design-video, matched to the pacing so the music supports the page-by-page voiceover instead of fighting it.
Open toolGenerating visuals from scratch
If a Canva page left a gap the design didn't fill
AI Image Generator
Fill the gap when a Canva page reads 'image placeholder' but ships empty. Generate an on-brand image for that scene instead of jumping back into the editor to source one.
Open toolAI Video Generator
Skip the design entirely for a scene that needs motion footage. Describe the clip in chat and let ngram generate B-roll to drop between your Canva page-scenes.
Open toolAI Avatar Video Generator
Pair the design narration with a synthetic presenter who introduces the deck on camera before the Canva pages take over the screen.
Open toolText to Speech Video
Have the talk track but no exported design yet? Generate a narrated video from the text and use it as the base the Canva visuals slot into.
Open toolPolishing the source and the voice
Sharpen the script and audio before you convert
Video Script Generator
Rewrite the copy from your Canva pages into a tighter narration script (sales tone vs. internal tone) before you convert the same export again.
Open toolAI Voice Generator
Audition voices against the design narration, lock the one that fits the brand, and reuse it on the next Canva design you turn into video.
Open toolVideo Translator
Once the English design-video is out, translate the script and captions and regenerate the voiceover for every locale the campaign runs in.
Open toolAuto Subtitle Generator
Already recorded a walkthrough of the Canva design instead of exporting it? Generate subtitles for that recording rather than re-rendering from a file.
Open toolBuilt for teams
Who on your team has a Canva design waiting to become a video?
Product Marketing
Turn the launch and campaign designs you built in Canva into the public-facing launch video. Same artwork across the post, the deck, and the landing page.
See workflowsContent Creators
Convert the Canva templates behind your posts into vertical video, so each design ships as both a static graphic and a short clip without rebuilding either.
See workflowsSales Enablement
Convert the Canva pitch deck reps already use into a video leave-behind they can send after a demo, brand-locked, with no per-rep editing.
See workflowsGrowth Marketing
Spin the Canva ad designs into video ad variants in three aspect ratios at once, so the same creative tests across feed, story, and in-stream placements.
See workflowsEducators
The Canva lesson decks become self-paced video modules students can rewatch. The on-page copy carries the talk track, captions keep it accessible.
See workflowsHR & Internal Comms
All-hands and culture designs from Canva turn into async video for distributed teams. Captioned, on-brand, localized when a region needs it.
See workflowsAgencies & Consultants
Convert the Canva designs you ship for clients into branded video deliverables, without standing up a video editor on every engagement.
See workflowsIntegrations
Triggers, not logos. Wire Canva to video into your campaign workflow.
Each integration starts from a working recipe built around the Canva-export-to-video step. Begin with one, or wire your own with the REST API and webhooks.
whenA new Canva PPTX or PDF export lands in your 'designs to ship' Drive folder
thenConvert it to a branded video and post the rendered link to your #marketing channel
whenClaude or ChatGPT is handed your exported Canva file and asked to make a video
thenRun the Canva-to-video pipeline and return the MP4 plus a hosted share link
whenA self-hosted flow drops a Canva PDF export on S3 after a campaign approval
thenConvert it to an MP4 inside your VPC so the design file never leaves your perimeter
whenA campaign brief in your project tool reaches the 'creative approved' stage with a Canva export attached
thenRender the design as a video variant and attach the link back to the brief
whenYou download a Canva design and hit 'Convert to video' on the saved file
thenGet the design-derived video back in a new tab, ready to share
whenA 1:1 video built from your Canva post design finishes rendering
thenPublish it straight to the company page with the design title as the post copy
whenA 16:9 video from your Canva launch design finishes rendering
thenUpload it as unlisted to your channel with the design filename as the title
How it compares
If you've tried turning a Canva design into video elsewhere.
Canva's own design-to-video plays your pages on timed transitions. Powtoon rebuilds the Canva design inside its own editor. ngram reads the exported file, plans the narration and scenes, and renders a video that looks produced rather than auto-played.
| Feature | ngram | Canva built-in | Powtoon | Fliki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Source you start from | Your exported Canva PPTX or PDF | The Canva design in the editor | Rebuilt in the Powtoon editor | Pasted text or extracted slide copy |
| Narration from page copy | Reads page text and drafts a talk track per scene | Manual voiceover or none | Manual script per scene | AI voiceover over slide text |
| Output style | Branded motion graphics per design-scene | Timed page transitions | Template animation styles | Voiceover over slides |
| Storyboard review before render | Full scene-by-scene preview, plain-language edits | Edit on the design timeline | Edit in the Powtoon timeline | Edit scene after generation |
| Brand kit enforcement | Logo, colors, fonts, motion style on every scene | Canva brand kit on paid tiers | Template-driven styling | Template-driven |
| Multi-format export from one source | 16:9, 1:1, 9:16 in a single render | Resize per design | Per-project export | 16:9, 9:16 |
| API + webhook delivery | REST, MCP, Zapier, n8n, Make | None for design-to-video | Limited | API on paid |
| Security and data handling | Talk to sales for your team's requirements | Per terms | Per terms | Per terms |
FAQ
Common questions about converting Canva to video
Still curious?
Canva → Video
Ready to turn your Canva design into a video?
Download the design as PPTX or PDF, drop it in, review the storyboard, and ship a branded video without rebuilding the design in a separate editor.