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Mastering Prezi for Business Presentations

By : Russell Anderson-Williams
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Mastering Prezi for Business Presentations

By: Russell Anderson-Williams

Overview of this book

Prezi is a tool for delivering presentations in a linear or non-linear format. This cloud-based software enables users to structure presentations on an infinite canvass in a way that is much more engaging and visually stimulating to the audience. "Mastering Prezi for Business Presentations" is a must read for anyone already using Prezi who wants to take their presentations to the next level. It covers all of the technical elements of the software, whilst also looking at the practicalities of using Prezi in a business environment. This book covers all the technical elements of Prezi and also teaches the reader how to think for Prezi, and approach their design in the best way. This is an essential resource for people who want to use Prezi seriously. As well as covering best practices for inserting imagery, sound, and video, this book also covers topics for business users like collaborating and sharing Prezis online, using Prezi at a meeting to brain storm with overseas colleagues, and how to 'Prezify' PowerPoint or Keynote slides. "Mastering Prezi for Business Presentations" will escalate you from Prezi user to master with ease.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Mastering Prezi for Business Presentations
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

The technical bit


As you may already understand from the previous chapter, Prezi has its own built-in video player. Of course, the player sits behind the scenes of your Prezi canvas, so we never actually see it. What we do see are the videos playing beautifully in whichever format we've chosen to use. These might include the following movie file types:

  • WMV*

  • MOV*

  • AVI*

  • F4V

  • FLV*

  • MPG*

  • MP4

  • M4V

  • 3GP

  • YouTube videos*

Note

We could bore you with the explanations of how each file type is different, but we're pretty sure you'd soon switch off. For now, just know that the ones you'll probably come across the most are marked with an *

File size restrictions

If you are the proud owner of a Pro or Edu Pro license, then you'll be pleased to know there are no file size restrictions at all placed upon your video files.

Tip

Remember the bigger the Prezi file size, the harder it will be to carry on a memory stick and/or share with your colleagues. Try to keep file size down wherever you can.

However, if you use a Public...