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Mastering Prezi for Business Presentations

Mastering Prezi for Business Presentations: Engage your audience visually with stunning Prezi presentation designs and be the envy of your colleagues who use PowerPoint with this book and ebook.

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Mastering Prezi for Business Presentations

Chapter 2. Using Audio

There's more to delivering a presentation than just making it look great with some snazzy imagery. Sure we can stimulate the audience visually to help them understand our message, but a lot of thought also needs to be given as to what they hear. A lot of your audience may have a very auditory learning style, and so it's important we try and factor this into our Prezi designs as well.

In this chapter, you'll learn how to add sound to your Prezi files, and become aware of some important points to think about when in the design stage. Topics to be covered include:

  • How Prezi plays sound

  • Using the .swf or .wmv files for sound

  • Adding background music

  • Using sound at specific points in your Prezi

Why use sound in Prezi?


Apart from the reasons mentioned previously, your Prezi will really benefit from having sound if you decide to embed it into a website or share it on the Prezi explore page (http://prezi.com/explore/). There's more detail on this in Chapter 6, Prezis for Online Delivery, but making Prezi files that people can explore on their own is a huge benefit to people that might not have had the time to be at your live presentation. Adding sound into these online Prezis will help the users exploring them understand the content quicker and with more clarity.

You might decide to have audio recorded from your live session and have it played at certain points in your Prezi. Or you might just want to create some kind of mood for the user that fits with your Prezis message. For the latter, you can use a music track that loops continuously when your Prezi is viewed online.

A great example of sound being used to its full potential in Prezi can be seen on the Prezi Explore page at http...

Where's the Insert Audio button?


Like any piece of software, there are lots of clever little things happening beneath the surface that we don't see. When you use the Image option on the web and the Google images appear, that's because some lovely person at Prezi wrote some clever coding to make it all happen.

It's these clever little bits of code that mean you can insert shapes, images, frames, movies, drawings, and so on. But where's the insert audio button? Surely the developers at Prezi have thought of that haven't they?

Well actually, no, they haven't. Not yet anyway. At this moment, Prezi is still in its infancy and changing all the time. One thing the Prezi team is great at is listening to their users and introducing new features based on what users want. At this moment in time, there is no insert audio button in Prezi, but it doesn't mean that will be the case forever, and if you really want audio there are ways to add it. Otherwise what would be the point in this chapter!

How is audio inserted?


As you hopefully know by now, Prezi can handle video files (refer the Chapter 3, Inserting a Video) and it's this video feature that your audio can piggyback a ride on to end up inside your Prezi file.

The following screenshot should give you a basic understanding of how this is done:

Until inserting audio becomes part of the Prezi software, (fingers crossed it'll be soon) you will have to convert your audio files into video format to use them on your Prezi canvas.

What this means is that the techniques explained in the rest of this chapter are really just a workaround to trick Prezi into thinking you're using video, which technically you will be. It'll all become clear throughout the chapter, and trust us; it will definitely set your Prezis apart from the rest of the crowd and get you to Prezi Master Status.

There are two different routes you can take to use audio in Prezi, so we'll explore them both in detail here and hopefully your Prezis will be making lots of noise...

Where to get sound files from?


Knowing where to find great sounds from will save you lots of time, and just like with imagery there are some great online libraries to choose from:

Each of these online libraries offers thousands of sound effects and music tracks at very low prices. They all have very easy-to-use search facilities, and for those of you who are aspiring to become a Prezi DJ you can use Audio Networks beats per minute calculator in your search to help you find really fast-paced tracks, or relaxing slow tracks.

Of course you can also search for sound effects and music tracks that are free to download. In some instances, this will take a little longer, but ultimately means that you and your company aren't spending a penny and achieving some great results.

Here's the best of the free audio libraries:

Creating your own sounds

You...

Audio options


There are two ways of using sound in your Prezi. You can have looping background music, or you can have sounds that just play once at certain path points in your Prezi. There are obvious benefits to using both of these different options whether your Prezi is being showed online or in front of a live audience. By teaching you these techniques, it's our hope that you'll be able to come up with some really creative uses for sound that really take your Prezi skills to the next level.

Option 1 – looping the background music

Now obviously if you're delivering to a live audience and want background music you can just use your laptop or another audio device separated from your Prezi. That will save you the time and effort of trying to build it into your Prezi file, and of course in business, time is money. But what happens after the live presentation when people ask you "Can we have the presentation to review?"

Wouldn't it be great to give them exactly the same experience they had in...

Being clever with audio


Hopefully by this stage you have a great understanding of how to get sound into your Prezi, and of course what the limitations on the software might be. But how is this going to make your presentations better and more memorable? A few ways that sound can be used in your Prezi are discussed in this chapter.

Translation

If you are part of a large global organization or if you have an international customer base then you might decide to build a Prezi that can be embedded into your company website for colleagues and customers to explore on their own.

The obvious way to use sound here would be to have some nice background music that plays throughout, and have any text displayed in several different languages. The problem with that is that you'll end up with lots and lots of text in your Prezi which doesn't make for nice viewing.

A Prezi Master would use hardly any text at all and let their Prezi do the talking for them by inserting separate audio translations that the user...

Summary


It's at this point we hope you're now itching to take what you've learned and find excuses to build it into your next Prezi.

As we mentioned at the very start of the chapter, inserting sound into Prezi is not yet a feature of the software. Because of this the vast majority of users don't include sound into their Prezis.

By using the techniques in this chapter, you can help achieve two things:

  1. Make yourself look like a true Master of Prezi.

  2. Make other Prezi users want to do the same.

The knock on effect of the second point is that when many users together want to insert sound the chances are that Prezi will do their very best to make sure it gets built into the software.

For now though you can enjoy basking in the glory of your incredible sounding Prezis.

In the following chapter, it's time to take a look at how video can really make your Prezis shine and make them even more memorable.

If a picture says a thousand words, then moving pictures with sounds must speak in volumes.

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Key benefits

  • Turns anyone already using Prezi into a master of both design and delivery
  • Illustrated throughout with easy to follow screen shots and some live Prezi examples to view online
  • Written by Russell Anderson-Williams, one of the fourteen experts hand-picked by Prezi

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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.

Who is this book for?

If you use Prezi in business and want to take your presentations to the next level, or if you want to become the office Prezi guru, this book is for you.

What you will learn

  • Learn to insert sounds into your Prezis for narration or for use in online delivery
  • Learn the difference between Raster and Vector imagery to optimize your Prezi design
  • Practice the three Prezi design steps so that you approach and build your Prezi as best you can
  • Design Prezis for use online without a presenter guiding the audience
  • Set up Prezi meetings for brain storming with overseas colleagues
  • Turn company slides into non-linear Prezi presentations
  • Know when it is right to use video, and how to format and convert video for use in Prezi
  • Create non-linear interactive Prezis that your audience controls
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Best Practices with Imagery Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Using Audio Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Inserting a Video Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Approaching Your Prezi Design Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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Mike Phillips Jun 01, 2013
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Super-well organized, clear, and easy to follow. Great tips and tricks!Unfortunately Prezi software has moved on and is now substantially different than the book. I still got a lot out of it, however. I can't knock off a star because Prezi updated so quickly, but beware the book will not match the software directly. A worthy addition to your Prezi library and easy to read.
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Resources is what I would say was the greatest value in this book. I purchased this 3 days ago and just finished it. The author is an extraordinarily talented Prezi creator and shows a lot of his own work as well as examples of other peoples truly outstanding work. However, what I got out of this was more the resources for finding and editing graphics for presentations. I do a lot with Power Point and YouTube content creation and being able to find audio and graphics and manipulate them on a budget is difficult. Mr. Anderson-Williams gives super easy step by step instruction on this. The second best value was in spelling out the planning process. The big picture. As for the how-to make a prezi, there wasn't much meat and potatoes there but then I think that's because Prezis features aren't that complicated yet. This is, as the sales pitch suggests, how to make your Prezis good. I'll have paid for the book just in the money I save on my next project.
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FREDDY J SANCHEZ LEAL Dec 19, 2012
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No doubts that Prezi is a revolutionary platform to make business presentations. It's not comparable to Power Point, it's a complete different thing. Prezi combines mind mapping and lots of creativity to express your ideas.Well, this book was certainly written by an expert who shares with us tons of his tricks, and give us the mind-set to always think like a master.
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Dan Peters Feb 09, 2014
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I began using Prezi 2 years ago. I love it! Not only does it allow you to create amazing presentations but it challenges you to think differently. This book is a great asset. It provides clear instruction for ways to move to the next step. Every chapter had me saying "I could really use that". If you are going to use Prezi, at a high level, start here!
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I love this book. It has worked well for understanding the everything from the basics to advanced presentation making. The information in this can be used in any software, but it does work best in Prezi. No matter how many presentations I make I can always refer back to this for better knowledge and more ways to go about it. Most interesting thing I found was taming the advanced search in google.
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