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Mastering Prezi for Business Presentations

By : Russell Anderson-Williams
Book Image

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

Windows Live Movie Maker


If you really can't get through to your colleagues in IT to have the YouTube block lifted, then you can still turn to Windows Live Movie Maker (WLMM). We looked at this useful tool a lot in the previous chapter when using audio, but of course, it's real purpose is to work with video. Here we'll look at how to add some of the same effects we saw in the YouTube editing areas.

Make sure that you have Windows Live Movie Maker open on your PC or laptop, and a video file to use.

The Home menu

As soon as you open WLMM, you'll be taken to the home screen. From here, you'll need to load a video by clicking the Add Videos and Photos button.

To the right of this button, you can also Add music (see Chapter 2, Using Audio) and insert a Title, Caption or Credits just as we saw in YouTube.

Clicking on either of these options will create a new screen with different options for text size, background color, and even the start time and text duration.

You can adjust these settings and click...