What is Prezi?

PPT is well known for making slides, but if there is another software that challenges PowerPoint with its amazing production effect, will it win? It is Prezi,prezi is a presentation software that makes ideas more lively and interesting, mainly through scaling and quick actions. It breaks the traditional PowerPoint's single line time series, uses the systematic and the structural integration the way to carry on the demonstration, takes the route the presentation way, pulls from one object suddenly to another object, with the rotation and so on movement is more visual impact. Create and edit documents through multiple terminals (Web page end, Windows and Mac Desktop, ipad and iphone mobile) to help you develop ideas and make the connection between ideas clearer.

PowerPoint, the biggest seat in the slide show market, has long coveted its place. In 2007, Adam Somlai-fischer and Peter Halacsy felt that the slide was a way to limit their full expression of idea, so they started to create a new way to solve the problem. Their result is prezi. Now its advocates are excited to claim that PowerPoint is out of date, and that Prezi will not take long to replace it. Is this really the case?

From the use of the way, it has applied cloud technology of online editing, desktop software, mobile device-side online editing, very rich, but also very attractive. In order to find out, the author downloaded its desktop version, download, installation process is very cumbersome, difficult to make a statement. Come to a conclusion after multiple use and try to share it in the most concise and straightforward way.

The first thing to share with you is the two major features of the software:

First, Prezi in a non-linear way to organize and play all the pages, each page is just a node on the path, and all the path nodes in a large "map", the path is not the composition of the line of PowerPoint, but the polyline. As shown in the following figure.

Second, and Prezi's most dazzling and fascinating place, is its way of playing nodes (the same as pages in PowerPoint). You can at any time when editing, reduce or enlarge the graphics, borders, text, video (graphics, borders can be accompanied by drawings and text, video), arbitrarily rotate the graphics, borders, text, video angle, and then set the path node (various objects can set the path node, Multiple objects can also be placed together to set a path node. Finally, in the playback, Prezi will be in a very natural way to reduce, enlarge, rotate the node, restore the full screen, "positive" performance, and the text and high accuracy of the picture will not be magnified, narrowing the reason for the virtual. That is to say, the original shrink will enlarge, zoom will shrink, rotate over a certain angle will turn to 0 angle. This natural reduction is very cool, and it is this way that many people who touch Prezi immediately fall in love with it. and Prezi full use of touch technology, you can easily on the touch screen to enlarge, shrink, transfer, the performance of live demonstrations more smart, comfortable. As shown below, this is the first page of playback, the "map", so it's easy to look at the whole picture at the beginning. In this page, all with the circle as the path of the node, we can not in this page in order directly click on any node, play it. You can also click the arrow below to indicate the node in the order of the path nodes.

The next thing to share with all of us is Prezi's basic production method:

When Prezi is turned on, the software automatically provides multiple sets of templates for use, after a set of templates is selected, in the mode of closing edit path (that is, the Edit Path button appears white, the map does not show the path and node), click Insert Option (INSERT), Inserts a variety of elements into a given frame. If you are not satisfied with the template you just selected, you can select the template again by clicking the ttemplate feature option (that is, a template known to PowerPoint). Of course, we can also use the template, directly click the Insert option to insert various elements, such as the need to add "frame", "line", "Arrow", "highlighter" effect, you can click the Frames&arrows option to add. Then click the Edit Path button to enter path-editing mode. At this point with the mouse to click on an element, the element will become a path node, the node in the order of click Automatically form the serial number, in the order you play, the serial number is the prevail. As shown in the following figure.

When you turn off edit path, the elements that you insert can be zoomed in, scaled down, rotated, and look simple, but this is the key step for the exciting future playback. In this step, you can try to play your space imagination, reasonable layout of the size of each element, position and rotation angle, so that prezi play when the restoration can play a cool "pseudo 3D" effect. The following figure.

General function options, Undo (back), Redo (Redo) to determine the production steps, Present (playback) used to play. The following figure.

The trial can be seen, Prezi is a simple function, easy to use, display cool software. In contrast to PowerPoint, it is more prominent in the "toggle" slides, and in other graphics, images, text, graphics, object animation editing is very simple, and not even. Text input, only support input English does not support input Chinese, you must enter Chinese, then you have to do a series of complex settings, and, using a limited font. Inserting the audio automatically converts it to its recognized format, which is a good speed. If you want to insert a video, it is slower. Prezi supports F4V, FLV, MOV, WMV, MPG, MPEG, MP4, M4V, 3GP. Avi can also be inserted, but playback is less fluent and the FLV format is the most supported. Prezi Maximum support 50MB size of video, in the actual use of the video, inserted in general as far as possible to choose 10MB, to reduce the upload time and space, because the storage space for each account is limited, only hundreds of trillion.

Finally, we have come to the conclusion that Prezi in the "switching" effect, while other aspects of the performance has yet to be improved, to completely replace the increasingly powerful PowerPoint is not realistic, at least a long way to go.