Mastering Prezi for Business Presentations - Second Edition
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Mastering Prezi for Business Presentations - Second Edition

Russell Anderson-Williams, J.J. Sylvia IV, J.J. Sylvia IV

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Mastering Prezi for Business Presentations - Second Edition

Russell Anderson-Williams, J.J. Sylvia IV, J.J. Sylvia IV

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Year
2015
ISBN
9781783558636
Edition
2

Mastering Prezi for Business Presentations Second Edition


Table of Contents

Mastering Prezi for Business Presentations Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more
Why subscribe?
Free access for Packt account holders
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. Understanding the Prezi Frame of Mind
Thinking about nonlinear presentations
Linear presentations
Nonlinear presentations
The best of both worlds
Think for Prezi
Planning your Prezi
The three Prezi design steps
Step 1 – planning your Prezi
Things you need to know
Step 2 – getting the style right
Zooming
Frames
Step 3 – building in layers
A piece of cake
The bottom layer of sponge
Cream and jam
The top layer of sponge
The steps, again
Mind Mapping
Writing a list
Starting with the tool
Working efficiently with Prezi
Map your journey
Deciding the BIG picture
The science behind it
Neural networks in action
How to find your BIG picture
Common Prezi mistakes
Motion sickness
The blank canvas challenge
Going too big
Summary
2. Hands-on with Prezi Mechanics
Templates
Using templates
Getting the most from templates
Paths
Creating motion
Adding, removing, and editing
Shapes
Get creative
Editing shapes
Editing lines
Styled symbols
Highlighter
Grouping
Prezi text editor
Spell checker
The text drag-apart feature
Font colors
Bullet points and indents
Animations
3D backgrounds
A single 3D background
Multiple 3D backgrounds
The Present button
Summary
3. Consistent Branding for Business
Color schemes
Customizing Prezi graphics through CSS
Editing fonts
Editing a frame
My Content
Custom logos
Summary
4. Importing Slides into Prezi
The importance of slides
Slide-based software and businesses
Converting colleagues to Prezi
Importing slides into Prezi
The Insert PPT function
Prezify your slides
Checking the import
Positioning content
Missing content
Placing slides on to a Prezi canvas
Zooming in and out on slides
No time to Prezify
Importing your slides as PDF files
Potential problems
Low-resolution imagery
Pixilation
Text
Spell check
Animations
An alternative solution
Summary
5. Best Practices with Imagery
Raster and vector images
What are raster images?
Raster file formats
What are vector images?
Vector file formats
Benefits of Prezi
Finding great imagery
Direct upload
Prezi insert
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
Deciding on the best image source
The big advantage
Time versus quality
Vectorising your imagery
Using software to vectorize
The quick way to create a vector image
Creating your vector images
Hand-drawn images
Working with images – quick tips
Prezi effects and animations
Effects
Fade-in animations
Summary
6. Using Audio
Why use sound in Prezi?
How to find sound files
Creating your own sounds
Adding audio in Prezi
Background music
Voice-over
Using the audio during presentation
Common problems
Uneven volume levels
Background music for only one path step
Music only
Music and voice
Working on mobile devices
Android
iPhone
Getting the audio into Prezi
Example uses
Less text
Translation
Narration
Creating an environment
Customers
Testimonials
Example
Summary
7. 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?
Determining your design
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 on YouTube
Enhancements
Quick Fixes
Filters
Special effects
Audio
Annotations
Captions
Other sources for videos
Vimeo
Using Windows Live Movie Maker or iMovie
Fun with videos in Prezi
Questions
Experts
Customer scenarios
Summary
8. Using Projectors with Prezi
Advantages of Prezi
Planning your Prezi
Beware of overlapping content
Changing the aspect ratio
Why do you need to know about ratios?
What this means for your Prezi?
Building your Prezi at the correct ratio
Sharing your Prezi
Sharing the online link
Sharing portable Prezis
Screen blackout
Interactive Prezis
How it works
How will you use it?
Summary
9. Prezi for Online Delivery
Your Prezis
Private Prezis
Sharing your Prezi
Search engines
Embedding your Prezi
Sizing your Prezi
User experience
Embedding the code
The online design approach
The three Prezi design steps
Giving instructions
Narration
Highlighting
Highlighting with frames
Highlighting with color
Timing
The BIG picture hook
Summary
10. Customized Interactions
Benefits of interactive Prezis
The Prezi API
Preparation
Web servers
The HTML editor
Basic operations
Creating menus
The base HTML...

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