I have lecture notes in markdown format. To create a beamer slide show using the notes I use the following command in terminal

pandoc -t beamer Intro.md -o slides.pdf --slide-level 2 -i -V theme=Warsaw

• This generates correct number of slides, a new slide is inserted at every heading level 2.
• The -i argument generates a slide where each item in a list is displayed incrementally
• -V theme=Warsaw uses Warsaw theme for beamer

Will append more information as i discover.