Something other than Powerpoint or Keynote for presentations...

[hockley91]

Hey guys,

 

I was looking into a more entertaining way of doing presentations instead of the old powerpoint or keynote software. Is there another way to do something flashy?

 

Lately, I've been experimenting with Adobe After Effects and just loading short video files as the animation slides in powerpoint. It seems to work well, but I can't find anything that is built for doing stuff like that.

 

Just wanted to do something that was more dynamic and engaging. Thought I'd pick some brains out there...

 

Adam

[ithinkin3d]

Prezi dot com looks to be an interesting way to present. I have not used this however during a presentation. It's supposed to be user friendly.

 

Good luck!

[Jeff Mottle]

Adobe Acrobat can do this. It will even support 3D

[hockley91]

Thanks for your input! I'm going to go ahead and take a look at what those ideas can do.

[BrianKitts]

Adobe Acrobat can do this. It will even support 3D

 

+1

 

and if you get the new adobe acrobat extended version you can insert video....

[erickdt]

We use Adobe InDesign to make "interactive PDFs" that often have video files built in to them. I'm not 100% sure how it's done but I do know that it is possible.

 

E

Edited April 28, 2010 by erickdt

[Noise]

The PDF's work well with movies but the 3D side of it is still basic - no textures and only a base spectrum of colours that can be applied to the geometry.

 

But having said that, its very good.

[hockley91]

I'm kinda excited about Prezi. That looks like something we can use. Plus it's not based on "slides". Acrobat, Powerpoint, Keynote...all based on the idea of one slide/page after another.

[Peter M. Gruhn]

I was turned off by Prezi. Maybe one of the other presentations made better use of the concept, but the UI made the thing enough of a chore that I only used the one recommended "good" presentation.

 

Fortunately concept and controls are separable.

 

But I didn't see a good reason to keep the concept.

[hockley91]

Interesting....what about a flash presentation? What did the Autodesk University keynote people use for their presentations? Was it an automated presentation and they knew their material well enough or did someone operate the slides?

[Arnold Sher]

try animoto.com .. we love it

[MegaPixel]

Photoflow is pretty cool also:

http://www.flashloaded.com/flashcomponents/photoflow/example1.html

[hockley91]

Well, we got a Prezi subscription and we are going that route. It looks pretty good so far! It's definitely more interesting to watch. If anything, it's an additional tool for presentations.