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PinchDeck
Shrink your PowerPoint files without losing quality
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Shrink your PowerPoint files without losing quality
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PinchDeck analyses the images and videos inside your pptx and resizes them to exactly the dimensions they should be, using the most efficient encoding methods. The result - visually identical decks that are up to 90% smaller. PinchDeck removes cropped and trimmed areas and finds media hidden from view that is contributing to the file size but not the presentation. Your data stays on your machine, no cloud processing and no file size limits.
I spent 10 years in events and creative agencies where slide decks ballooned in size under the weight of high resolution images and videos dropped in by designers and videographers without a thought to the size. Project Managers adding 30MB gifs of their favourite memes. Chaos. Pitch decks were slow to run and files were embarrassingly large to send.
I set about making a tool that was full of capabilities and would handle each file independently instead of the blunt instrument that PowerPoint offers. I succeeded, but the only people who could understand it were media professionals with a knowledge of bitrates, resolution, and encoding methods. So, I reworked everything to make it accessible under a 1-click philosophy (or close to it) but keep all the individual functionality in an “Advanced” mode.
On top of the resizing and re-encoding it has a few neat tricks:
Sending a pptx to someone who doesn’t have the same fonts installed as you makes the deck look totally different, so PinchDeck detects when fonts are used but not embedded in the file and downloads them with one click
Bulk extract all videos or all images into one folder
View the original and the new presentation side-by-side to visually check the similarity
Convert GIFs into videos - which take up way less space
10 Free exports, and half price on subscriptions or lifetime license for the Product Hunt community :-)
Oh, and its available on both Mac and Windows! (Windows certification is still in progress, so it'll get flagged by smartscreen as an unknown developer until I can sign the exe - sorry about that).
Happy Pinching,
Graham