Prezi Prezi is fun to use, and the presentations you can make with it are fun to watch.Download Now Traditional slide-based presentations are just that: Traditional. You could have fantastic visuals, but no matter how fancy (or austerely minimalistic) each slide is, it remains a slide. Prezi (various prices, starting at free) tries to change this by turning your presentation into a wide-open canvas on which you can draw your ideas spatially, and then presenting them by zooming and panning all over the canvas. Used well, the end result feels cinematic and engaging in a way traditional presentations rarely are.
Prezi offers over 50 templates to get you started. To get you started, Prezi shows a list of templates you could use. There are an ample number of templates, but there is no way to preview what a template looks like except by starting a project with it. If you start a project with a template and find out it doesn't work for you after all, you can switch over to a different template midway through, but you will have to adjust things to work in the new template.
Prezi uses a canvas, but makes it easy to see how a presentation flows. Prezi's canvas-based nature means that you create the presentation where you'll be showing it. If you want to zoom and pan somewhere when presenting, you'll have to zoom and pan while editing, so you instantly get a feel for what your audience will see. Instead of "slides," Prezi uses "path points": saved states for your presentation, where the viewport shows a portion of the canvas.
It is easy to insert images using a built-in Google Images search, or from your local computer. As you present, you move through a progression of these path points, with Prezi automatically animating things as needed. If a given path point covers a small area of the canvas, Prezi will smoothly zoom into it, revealing new details as needed. If the next path point is all the way across the canvas, Prezi will smoothly pan there.
Prezi offers built-in diagrams. I found Prezi easy and intuitive to work with, without much of a learning curve. When I had to insert an image, it let me search Google Images right from within Prezi, and I could tell it to only look for images that are okay to use commercially. You can also embed YouTube videos, as well as content from your local computer. A recent Prezi feature is the addition of sound: You can now upload sound clips to go along with your presentation, or even narrate the entire presentation so that it can stand on its own.
Instead of slides, your presentation flows along path points, which you can change and edit as needed. Internet connections have a tendency to flake out at just the wrong moment, especially in a busy convention center. To avoid potentially embarrassing situations, Prezi lets you download your presentation for offline viewing. The presentation is packaged as a Zip archive, with a small executable player.
Prezi lets you present to others online. Prezi is available in three different plans, starting with a free Public plan. I tested the $4.92/month Enjoy plan. The $13.25/month Pro plan is the only one that lets you work offline.
A big part of Prezi's appeal is that it's still unusual. It is likely your audience is used to slide-based presentations, so Prezi's cinematic nature would wow them. In time, if Prezi or similar products become commonplace, it may lose its visual edge. Until that happens, Prezi is an almost surefire way to create an engaging, surprising, and beautiful presentation.
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Impress.js presentations use a large canvas, not individual, disconnected slides. Traditionally, a presentation is a deck of slides, some of which may be animated, with text sliding in and spinning around. This sort of animation is easy to overdo, and it doesn't change the fact that once you're done talking about a slide, there's an abrupt switch to the next slide. Impress.js breaks the slide deck metaphor and turns the presentation into an infinite canvas. Instead of flipping between slides, your presentation zooms in on a concept, then glides to the next one, then rotates 90 degrees and zooms back out to reveal a new concept, then tilts on its side (3D!) to show the next idea, and so on. It's like you're taking the viewers on a guided tour through an infinite space strewn with ideas. You get to control the transitions, and you don't have to use 3D if you feel it's too flashy.
Impress.js is thoroughly documented, including an ASCII image of Yoda guiding the coder.Impress.js is not a software program. It is a tiny bundle of six files, the most important of which are impress.js (the actual script), impress-demo.css (a CSS file containing formatting for the presentation), and index.html. That last one is a working presentation created with Impress.js, and it serves two purposes: Viewed in a web browser, it lets you see all the crazy things Impress.js can do. Viewed in a code editor, it shows you exactly how those things are done, using numerous code comments and one ASCII drawing of Yoda.
Impress.js can be used to create 3D effects without Flash.Still, there are websites based on Impress.js, such as lioshi.com (an art portfolio in French), and the website for Electric Animal, an "Internet invention agency." When these websites are viewed with an unsupported browser, they gracefully fall back to a static mode and you can scroll through the presentation top-to-bottom. Impress.js was also used in a video by Museum140, a website for social media projects about museums.
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