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Deck Background Video

You have seen amazing deck background videos shared by other Pro Plan users. Now this feature is made available to our Free Plan users too! Simply click on the activation link found in our Facebook Community:
facebook.com/groups/decktoys

Once you have the feature activated, follow these steps to upload your video:

Step 1: Click on ‘Edit Background’

Step 2: Click on ‘Image Picker’ at the top right of the background editor

Step 3: Click on ‘Video Background’ at the top right of the pop-up screen.

The video file requirements are:

– MP4 video file

– less than 10MB

– 612px (width) * 558px (height)

– preferably a looping video of less than 10 seconds

You will need to make this video with a third-party application. Once the video is added, the background editor will cease to work, so you are unable to edit the video further within Deck.Toys. You could consider using Powerpoint or even get short video clips from Pixabay (select the lowest resolution download option): https://pixabay.com/videos

In the same activation link, we share a Powerpoint template that you can use to create your own animations that can then be exported as a video.

Here are some great tips to get the video to loop well in Powerpoint:

Tip #1:: Start animation “With Previous” and Repeat animation “until end of slide”

Tip #2: The video length should be the lowest common multiple of each animation length in the video. For example, if there are two repetitive animations of 2s and 5s each, the video length should be 10 seconds.

Tip #3: Rewind/custom path items back to the original position. Alternatively, animate the item to be outside of the screen or behind another item.

Here’s a video to get you started: