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5 Tips on Creating Moving Presentations
Chances are at one time or another in your career, you have created, viewed, endured or slept through a presentation. If you are old enough to remember transparencies, you probably have a deep-rooted disdain for slide presentations, regardless of the form, format or function. Boring or confusing presentation-style slides can not be improved upon by making them move on the screen. It may make them funny, but that may not be what you intended. So, should you convert your presentation to video?
Here are a few things you may want to consider before you dismiss the idea altogether and run for cover.
- Think scenes, not slides. What I mean is think of the window as a movie screen or canvas, rather than as a slide in a series. Slides are static. Scenes are alive with color and action. Use the slides as a means of organizing scenes. Each scene should have a focus and theme. Let your imagination flow, but keep it simple.
- Don't over-animate. You don't need to have everything whizzing across the screen. Incorporate the transitions and movements into the message. Just like in the movies, try not to build the scene around the special effects.
- Size really matters. Think about the display format and size of the video you create from the presentation. A slide with many lines of text may be impossible to read on a 600x400 pixel video, especially if it displays on a smartphone. Displaying one word at a time on the screen may be better for some messages than entire lines of text.
- Edit before you Embed. Embedding video and music in a presentation may be a frustrating experience when you go to convert the presentation to video. Different presentation software packages and versions treat embedded video differently. You sacrifice control when you play a video within a presentation, so use it sparingly and if possible, and embed to just the scene or scenes you want.
- Add audio by page. Audio can be controlled more at the page level than as a soundtrack for the entire presentation. Use action settings to set the timing on when the audio starts and ends. If you use audio, though, make sure you have the rights to it. When you upload your video to a hosting site, you may find that the site warns you about this and may refuse to post it.
The overall message is this, Start from scratch, even if you have a presentation created. Design your presentation with video in mind and you will have a much more interesting and viewable outcome.