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Imagine watching a 30 minute YouTube tutorial and walking away with a polished slide deck you can actually present, share, or study from. That is exactly what this automation does. You paste a link, click run, and 2 minutes later you have a .pptx file ready to go.
This is the kind of workflow that saves hours every week. Whether you are a student, teacher, content creator, or working professional, turning video content into structured slides is a skill worth automating.
Students can turn lecture recordings into study notes. Teachers can convert educational videos into classroom material. Marketers can repurpose webinars into pitch decks.
Even consultants and trainers can take long-form video content and reshape it into client-ready presentations. The use cases are endless once you understand the building blocks.
You only need three accounts to run this workflow:
Supadata has a free tier covering 100 videos per month. Gamma's Pro plan at $25/month gives you around 4,000 credits, enough for roughly 100 ten-page decks.
From signing up to running your first conversion, you are looking at around 10 minutes. The heavy lifting is already done because you can import a pre-built Make blueprint.
You can grab the free template inside the Futurise community by searching for "Convert YouTube video to PowerPoint."
The workflow is simple but powerful. Three modules handle everything from input to final PowerPoint file. Let's break each one down so you know what is happening under the hood.
The first module collects your inputs. You paste the YouTube link, choose how many slides you want, write your slide instructions, define your audience, and select a theme.
Slide counts can go up to 50. Instructions can be anything like "structure as a step-by-step tutorial" or "use as university lecture slides."
Audience definitions help Gamma tailor the tone. You might say "beginners to AI with no technical background" or "white collar working professionals."
Supadata takes the YouTube URL and pulls the full transcript in seconds. No manual copy-pasting, no missing captions.
The transcript becomes the raw material for Gamma. Without a clean transcript, the slide generation would not have enough context to produce quality output.
This step is free up to 100 videos per month, so you can run it heavily without worrying about cost.
Gamma's API receives the transcript along with your instructions, audience, theme, and slide count. It then generates a fully designed presentation in the background.
Once rendering finishes, the API returns a download URL for both .pptx and .pdf formats. You click the link, the file downloads, and you can open it directly in PowerPoint or Keynote.
You can also edit the slides inside Gamma's web app, change themes, swap layouts, or tweak text whenever you want.
Now let's walk through the actual setup. This part is faster than you think because the template does most of the work for you.
Inside Make.com, click Create a new scenario. Then click the three dots menu and select Import Blueprint. Choose the downloaded file from Futurise.com and click save.
The full scenario will appear on your canvas with three modules already connected. You do not need to wire anything yourself.
This saves you the trouble of figuring out how to structure the HTTP requests or parse JSON responses.
Open the Supadata module in the scenario. Click Add next to the connection field, then paste your API key from the Supadata dashboard.
Keep this key private. Treat it like a password because anyone with the key can use up your monthly quota.
Click save and the module is ready.
Open the Gamma module. Scroll down to the API key field, delete the placeholder, and paste your own key from the Gamma settings page under Members then API keys.
Make sure you are on the Gamma Pro plan, otherwise the API access will not work. The monthly plan is $25 and gives you enough credits to generate around 100 decks per month.
Save the module and you are ready to run your first conversion.
The default settings work fine, but the real magic happens when you tweak the inputs. Small changes to instructions and themes can produce dramatically different slide decks.
For short tutorials, 10 to 15 slides usually works well. For full lectures or training material, push to 30 or even 50 slides for more depth.
Instructions control the structure. Try things like:
The clearer your instruction, the better Gamma performs.
Gamma offers many off-the-shelf themes. Inside the Gamma app, go to Themes then Standard to browse them all.
Copy the theme name exactly, for example flamingo or pearl, and paste it into the theme field in Make.com. The output will match that visual style.
You can also create custom themes inside Gamma and reference them by name.
Gamma's API documentation lists every parameter you can configure. You can control language, tone, image styles, card layouts, and more.
The playground inside the docs lets you set values visually and copy the generated JSON straight into Make.com. This is a huge time saver when experimenting.
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Want to see this entire YouTube-to-PowerPoint workflow built live? Watch the full walkthrough in the video embedded below from the Leon Petrou YouTube channel. You will see every click, every setting, and every output exactly as described here.