PowerPoint to After Effects with AI
Yes, you can bring PowerPoint to After Effects with AI: paste the slide's content into ChatGPT, Claude or any MCP client connected to Prism, and the slide is built in your open comp as editable text and shape layers.
After Effects cannot open a .pptx, and the forum route runs through PDF and Illustrator before a single layer is editable. Give the AI the words, the numbers and the layout instead, and each slide is a comp you can animate and revise.
What you say, and what lands
| You type | What appears in your comp |
|---|---|
| "Build slide 3 of my deck in a new 1920×1080 comp: title 'Q3 results' top-left in Inter Bold 72, three bullets below, and a bar chart from these numbers, Jan 120, Feb 180, Mar 260, as editable shape layers. Title fades up first, bullets stagger in 120 ms apart, bars grow from the baseline with a soft overshoot. Total 4 seconds, then hold." | A new comp: a title text layer, three bullet text layers, three shape-layer bars, keyframed in that order |
| "Import ~/deck/slide-03.svg as editable text and shape layers, then animate it the same way." | The slide's exact layout as native layers, animated |
| "Every slide: headline rises from below, supporting line fades 0.3 s later, hold two seconds, cut." | The same rule applied to every slide comp |
| "Make the hold three seconds and slow every entrance by 20%." | Every slide comp retimed |
Test it on your own project. A Free account is enough to start: Sign up, then connect your AI and ask for this.
How to do it
Getting a slide out of the deck
| From | Give Prism | What survives |
|---|---|---|
| PowerPoint, pasted | headline, bullets, numbers | the content; layout rebuilt from your description |
| PowerPoint 365, Save As SVG | one .svg per slide | the exact layout; text stays editable when the export keeps the text as text |
| Google Slides, File › Download › SVG | one .svg per slide | the exact layout, with live text |
| Keynote | the pasted content (Keynote exports PDF, not SVG) | the content |
| A movie rendered from the deck | nothing | no layer is editable |
Back into PowerPoint
Render the comp as usual and place the movie on the slide with Insert, then Video. The editable version stays in After Effects.
What it needs
| After Effects | 2024, 2025 or 2026, macOS or Windows |
| AI client | any MCP client: ChatGPT, Claude, Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and others |
| Plan | a Free account is enough; this uses MCP actions, not the Prism AI balance |
What it does not do
It does not open a .pptx, a .key or a Google Slides file, and it does not narrate the deck with a synthetic voice. Text that was outlined before the SVG export stays outlined.
Common questions
No, and neither does Prism. Paste the slide's content, or export the slide as SVG and import that; it is built as editable layers either way.
Yes. Pasted content becomes text layers you can retype, and an SVG keeps its text live when the export kept the text as text.
No. Pasting the content or importing an SVG gets editable layers without it.
Render the comp as usual and insert the movie on the slide. PowerPoint plays it in place.
Yes. A headline and its bullets are enough; layout, layer stack and timing are built around the text you paste.
Related
Titles
Titles and lower thirds in After Effects with AI: name, role, chapter title, location card or credit roll built as keyframed text and shape layers you can edit.
Figma and SVG
Figma and SVG to After Effects with AI: export the frame as SVG, import it as shape layers with live, typeable text, then animate it by describing the motion.