Import slides

Slides come in as images. Alongside each image, Webinaric keeps the slide's title and speaker notes where the source has them, and writes a text description of the slide so the presenter knows what's on it. You add slides when you create a webinar or at any time from the slides editor.

Supported formats

Slides are still images in the player: animations, transitions and embedded videos don't play.

Add slides

1. In the slides editor, click Add → Slides, or drop files on the slide strip on the left. On New webinar, click Choose slides or drop files on the Slides box.
2. In the Add slides dialog, choose Upload files and drop your files or click Browse files.
3. While the upload is converted, the slides appear one by one. All slides of a new deck start selected; click slides to change the selection. You can start choosing while the rest is processed.
4. Click Add slides. In the editor, they're added after the selected slide, or at the end.

Turn on Hide slides already in this webinar to see only the slides you haven't added yet.

After adding, Webinaric describes each new slide for the presenter (its Slide contents). Speaker notes from PowerPoint land in each slide's Speaker notes field. They're context for the presenter, not the spoken script: you generate the script next. See Scripts and presenter context.

Recent uploads

Every upload appears under Recent uploads in the dialog, so you can pick more slides from a deck later without uploading it again. Uploads are shared with your workspace and kept for 30 days. Removing an upload doesn't affect slides already added to webinars.

Google Slides

1. In the Add slides dialog, choose Google Slides, then Choose presentation.
2. Sign in to Google if asked, and pick the presentation. Your Google account can be different from your Webinaric login.
3. The presentation is read and appears as a new upload. Pick slides and click Add slides as above.

Slides you skipped in Google are left out. Webinaric only gets access to the files you pick.

Update from Google

Later edits in Google don't come in by themselves. When you've changed the presentation:

1. Open the Add slides dialog, select the presentation under Recent uploads and click Update from Google. Webinaric reads it again and shows what changed. Slides that changed are tagged Updated, and new ones New. To render every slide again, use Re-render all slides in the button's menu.
2. To bring the changes into the webinar, click Update N slides in this webinar.

You can also update one slide at a time. In the slides editor, a slide from Google shows Changed in Google or Removed in Google when the presentation has moved on, and an Update from Google button.

An update replaces the slide image and describes it again. The title and script are kept. If you edited a slide's speaker notes in Webinaric, Google's newer notes aren't taken; the slide says so and offers Use Google's notes.

Replace a slide image

To swap one slide's image without losing its script and notes, open the slide and click Replace image. Pick one slide from an upload; its speaker notes and script are kept.