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Mastering Prezi for Business Presentations
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Table of Contents
Mastering Prezi for Business Presentations
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
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Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Best Practices with Imagery
Raster and vector images
What are raster images?
Raster file formats
What are vector images?
Vector file formats
What are the benefits of Prezi?
Where can you find great imagery?
Prezi Insert from web
Limitations of the Insert From web function
Using Google image search outside of Prezi
Advanced image search
Standard search
Google image search limitations
Other online sources for imagery
Bang for your buck
The big advantage
Time versus quality
The best of both worlds
Vectorising your imagery
The quick way
Creating your own flavor
Grab a pen
Working with images — quick tips
Summary
2. Using Audio
Why use sound in Prezi?
Where's the Insert Audio button?
How is audio inserted?
Where to get sound files from?
Creating your own sounds
Audio options
Option 1 — looping the background music
What you need for Option 1?
Creating a movie
Converting to .swf
The Prezi bit
Testing the audio
Sharing your Prezi
Option 2 — different sounds at path points
What you need for Option 2?
Creating a movie
Inserting into Prezi
Hiding sound behind content (optional)
Being clever with audio
Translation
Narration
Creating an environment
Customers
Summary
3. Inserting a Video
The technical bit
File size restrictions
Online or offline?
Will your Prezi be viewed online?
Will colleagues want a copy of your Prezi?
Ask the question
Playing videos
Playing along a path
Letting the user play
Positioning videos
Videos — the easy way with YouTube
Searching for the right clip
Creating your own YouTube account
Uploading your own videos to YouTube
Editing videos in YouTube
Enhancements
Quick Fixes
Effects
Audio
Annotations
Captions
Some businesses don't like YouTube
Windows Live Movie Maker
The Home menu
Animations menu
The Visual Effects menu
The Edit menu
Inserting WLMM videos into Prezi
Benefits of Windows Live Movie Maker
Fun with video in Prezi
Questions
Experts
Customer scenarios
Summary
4. Approaching Your Prezi Design
A change of approach
A prison without walls
No end in sight
Linear presentations
Non-linear presentations
The best of both worlds
Ask the question
Death by Prezi
Think for Prezi
Motion sickness
Master the approach
The three Prezi design steps
Step 1 — Plan your Prezi
Things you need to know
Mind Mapping
Why not just write a list?
How to do it?
Why it works well with Prezi?
Map your journey
Step 2 — Get the flavor right
What's wrong with this picture?
Frame it right
Themes
Step 3 — Building in layers
Piece of cake
Bottom layer of sponge
Cream and Jam
Top layer of sponge
The steps, again
Presenting your BIG picture
The science behind it
Neural networks in action
How to find your BIG picture
Summary
5. Projecting Your Prezi
Planning your Prezi
A common mistake
The simple solution
Master's secret shortcut
Why you need to know about ratios?
What this means for your Prezi
Build your Prezi at the 4:3 ratio
Beware the double-click!
Sharing your Prezi
Interactive Prezis
How it works
How will you use it
Summary
6. Prezis for Online Delivery
Your Prezis
Private Prezis
Search engines
Share this Prezi
Viewing
Editing
Embedding your Prezi
Prezi size
User experience
Embed code
The online design approach
The three Prezi design steps
Give instructions
Embedded Prezis
Narration
Highlighting
Highlighting with frames
Highlighting with color
Timing
The BIG Picture hook
Summary
7. Importing Slides into Prezi
Why oh why!
A bit of history
Slides are here to stay!
Slides are useful
Another reason why
Importing slides into Prezi
The Insert PPT function
Prezify your slides
Positioning content
Placement and frames
Zooming
No time to Prezify
Importing your slides as PDF
Things to look out for
Imagery
Zoom
Text
Spell check
Animations
The solution
Summary
8. Prezi for iPad and Android
The Prezi iPad app
Using Prezi viewer
Edit mode
Show mode
Prezi viewer tips
YouTube
Sound
Images
Prezi for Android
Using Prezi with Android
Stay connected
Images
Editing
Sound files
YouTube
iPad and Android comparison
When to present with a tablet
Projector + tablet = wow!
A bit of fun
Summary
9. Mastering the Newer Prezi Features
Templates
The templates
Getting the most from templates
Paths
Assets
Branding
Shapes
Get creative
Editing shapes
Editing lines
Highlighter
Pencil
Drawings and diagrams
Prezi text editor
Spellchecker
Text drag-...
