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Create Transparent Powerpoint Animations for your Videos

Name: Create Transparent Powerpoint Animations for your Videos
Rating: 4.6 (79 reviews)

Create transparent animations and lower thirds on top of your talking head videos with Powerpoint and Adobe Premiere

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Created byPaul Nekh. | Business | Innovation | Video

Last updated 10/2025

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What you'll learn

Make your Talking Head videos more dynamic and eye-catching
Create animated infographics and lower thirds using Powerpoint
Make your infographics transparent and add them on top of your Talking Head videos
Learn the full potential of Powerpoint animations

Course content

9 sections • 64 lectures • 4h 22m total length

Introduction7:23
Make sure to go through this lecture to understand how this course will unfold
Download all the Powerpoint files (if you want to!)0:23

Setting the background3:05
I will always use a "pattern" of my talking head video to better adjust the placement, size and colors of my powerpoint designs to the background of the video.
Creating the list and getting icons6:12
Create a list in PowerPoint by inserting shapes, turning off outlines, applying transparent fill, and adding a tick icon from icons or noun project with proportional resizing and precise placement.
Finishing the base list + Useful Powerpoint tricks6:20
Animating the first title of the list7:07
Copying animations on the remaining titles4:13
Setting the transparency and exporting Powerpoint video file3:46
From here until the end of this first project (Section 1), you will learn how to prepare your Powerpoint file for video exporting and then, how to set this transparency inside Adobe Premiere.
Before you move onto the next lesson...0:35
Premiere - How to import video files on the editing timeline2:49
I will be working with Adobe Premiere for the transparency effect, but you can also use any other video editing software that can do the same (Chroma Key or Ultra Key effect).
Premiere - How to make the Powerpoint video transparent4:07
Premiere - Editing Powerpoint video on top of the face video6:33
Premiere - Exporting the final video4:28

List 2 Introduction1:36
Create a second, more fancy list in PowerPoint using rounded shapes and transparency, anticipating subtle green artifacts in Premiere while aligning the slide face with your video colors.
Creating the basic list shapes6:01
Inserting text and downloading new fonts2:56
Animating the list titles5:52
Animate the list titles in PowerPoint using fade, zoom, and peek effects, set durations, start with previous, align items precisely, and copy the layout for multiple items.
REPEAT - Setting the transparency and Exporting PPT Video1:19
Set shape and text sizes, apply a solid green fill, and rehearse animations. Export the PowerPoint as a video to refine transparency in adobe premiere and review results.
REPEAT - Adobe Premiere - Transparency3:11
Adobe Premiere - Settings of the Transparency Effect6:17

REPEAT - Setting the background2:33
Learn to create a background from a video frame in PowerPoint by deleting placeholders, capturing a frame, and applying it as a background with picture fill for clean, editable titles.
Adding the base text for the Name4:03
Insert a text box, type the name at size 40 with a font like bunch shrift, and place a vertical bar cursor to the left of first letter for visibility.
Animating the Vertical Bar and the Name2:39
Learn to animate a vertical bar and name in PowerPoint by applying appear and blink effects, then time the text with by letter animation and a typing cursor.
Creating the Typing Effect by moving the Vertical Bar5:04
Adding the base text for the Professional Title4:12
Animating the Vertical Bar of the Professional Title5:12
Making the Titles disappear nicely1:07
Select the written titles, apply an exit animation (Zoom), customize text by letter with a 5 percent delay, and preview to make the titles disappear nicely.
REPEAT - Setting the transparency and exporting Powerpoint video file2:49
Set the slide background to a pure green, enabling transparency. Register the rehearsed timings, export the PowerPoint video in full HD, and import into Premiere to ignore the green.
REPEAT - Adobe Premiere - Importing video files and setting transparency4:17
REPEAT - Premiere - Basic Video Editing and Exporting of the Final Video File4:37
Conclusion of the TITLES Video Project1:55
PowerPoint enables a fast, flexible typing effect title animation for online courses, YouTube, and marketing videos, while minor letter-border artifacts may appear.

Introduction to Presenter's Title variant 21:46
First shapes and Selection Tool4:08
Inserting Logo and Text2:49
Insert your logo using pictures or icons, position it proportionally, rename the object as logo, and add a text box for the title with a chosen font and color.
Finishing all the Shapes and Texts5:05
Animations Part 16:39
Learn to build engaging PowerPoint animations by applying fly in, peak in, wipe, and entrance effects with precise timing, delays, and pane-based sequencing to reveal shapes, logo, and title.
Animations Part 29:17
REPEAT - Setting the transparency and Exporting PPT Video1:35
REPEAT - Adobe Premiere - Transparency and Exporting4:26

Creating a custom Post-it shape3:36
Duplicating Post-it shapes and finding realistic colors4:19
Learn to enhance PowerPoint visuals by duplicating post-it shapes, selecting realistic colors with the eyedropper tool, and editing shape points to create varied, engaging designs.
Creating a realistic pattern for the Post-its4:14
Discover how to create realistic post-its textures in PowerPoint by converting shapes to images, applying artistic effects, and adjusting transparency, shadows, and color variations.
Creating a hand written and hand drawn effect of the Post-its7:08
Finding a realistic pin and effect3:41
Animating the Post-its5:33
Learn to animate post-its in PowerPoint for your videos by grouping text, applying float and handwriting effects with precise timing, delays, and animation painter.
REPEAT - Setting the transparency and Exporting PPT Video1:41
REPEAT - Adobe Premiere - Transparency, Editing and Video Exporting8:30
Learn to create transparent PowerPoint animations in Adobe Premiere by using the ultra key to remove green background, adjust timing, and export the final video.

Introduction to Polaroid photos effect0:49
REPEAT - Setting the background pattern1:59
Set a background pattern for PowerPoint animations by importing a face screenshot, pasting it as a picture, and flipping it horizontally on the left.
Creating the base shape3:02
Create a custom bent shadow3:56
Finishing the base shape4:44
Adding clip icons4:07
Adding titles and finalizing the shapes3:34
Animating the Polaroid photos5:43
REPEAT - Setting the transparency and Exporting PPT Video1:35
REPEAT - Adobe Premiere - Transparency, Editing and Video Exporting5:00
Harness Adobe Premiere to layer Polaroid pictures over a talking head video, apply an ultra key to remove green screen, and export with high bitrate for quality.

Technical Recap - Introduction0:47
Setting the Powerpoint frame from your Talking Head video3:40
Preparing the Powerpoint file for video export2:21
Adobe Premiere - Adding video files, removing the green color and adjusting7:14
Adobe Premiere - Editing and Exporting7:45
If you DON'T have Adobe Premiere - Camtasia example8:12
Learn to create transparent PowerPoint animations without Adobe Premiere by applying the remove color effect in Camtasia, then tweak tolerance and softness to improve transparency.

Requirements

Access to Powerpoint, ideally Office 365 version
Access to Adobe Premiere...
... or another video editing software that can do a transparency effect (but result not guaranteed)

Description

Use this course as a tool kit to improve the quality of your talking head videos by adding transparent infographics and "lower thirds". You will create these graphics using Powerpoint and make them transparent using Adobe Premiere. Some other video editors can also create the transparency effect, but the same good result as with Adobe Premiere is NOT guaranteed. So if you don't have Adobe Premiere, do make sure that your video editing software can create the transparency effect (check the list at the bottom).

In this course we're going to create:

2 Lists
2 Name/titles
1 "Post-it" effect
1 "Polaroid" Photo effect

These graphics can be used for your YouTube videos, Online courses, Business/Marketing videos, Interview Videos and more. Basically, whenever a person is talking on camera.

You will learn how to create these graphics with Powerpoint only, and you will probably be surprised how powerful Powerpoint can be. And even though you won't be able to create the most complex effects that can be done with specialized animation software, Powerpoint is a great compromise in terms of quality and creation speed. Once you learn how it works, you will be able to create many other infographics for your videos relatively fast.

However, you will need a video editing software that can do a "Remove Color" effect to make it transparent and add on top of your talking head video, and most decent software can do it. However, not all of them give the same results. For example, Camtasia "remove color" effect is not as good as Adobe Premiere's "Ultra Key" - some shadows don't work, you need to do much more adjustments, but it's still possible. So here is a limited list of software that have *some version* of this effect. If your software is not listed here, it doesn't mean that it can't do it. In that case you should check it for yourself on the internet if this is possible or not. Otherwise, write me privately and I will do the research for you and update the list below.

Adobe Premiere
Camtasia
Filmora
Corel VideoStudio
Final Cut Pro
Pinnacle Studio

For everything else, check the Promo and the Free Preview videos of this course!

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Who this course is for:

YouTubers who want to improve the quality of their Talking Head videos
Online instructors who want to augment their Talking Head videos
Anyone doing video editing of Talking Head videos
Anyone wanting to add a new skill to their marketing skills portfolio

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Course content

Introduction2 lectures • 8min

Project 1 - Transparent animated list11 lectures • 49min

Project 2 - A fancier, more colorful animated list7 lectures • 27min

Project 3 - Presenter's Name and Title with Typing Effect11 lectures • 38min

Project 4 - More colorful title for Presenter's Name and Logo8 lectures • 36min

Project 5 - Video Post-its8 lectures • 39min

Project 6 - Polaroid photo effect for pictures10 lectures • 34min

Technical recap - All editing in Powerpoint and Adobe Premiere6 lectures • 30min

Before you go...1 lecture • 1min

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