Prezi goes live
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Prezi is the most exciting new presentation aid I’ve seen in ages and today sees its formal launch. Prezi is a Flash-based tool that does away with the traditional slide show metaphor. Instead you arrange your images, text, audio, video and PDF files on one great canvas that you navigate throughout your presentation. What makes Prezi exciting is the way you pan and zoom from object to object, either on a pre-defined navigational path or at will.
Until now, all editing was conducted online, but the release version now includes a desktop editor, which synchs up to your online account. This seems to work nicely and provides a great deal of extra flexibility.
I’ve been experimenting with the most basic Prezi functionality using a presentation I conducted in January called Ten Ways to Thrive in a Downturn. With any luck you should be able to view this at http://prezi.com/9738/. It includes a fair amount of text, which wouldn’t, of course, have been needed if the presentation was conducted live.
The basic version of Prezi is free, as long as you are happy for all your output to be public and to include a logo. You’re also limited to 100MB of storage. The Enjoy option, for 39 Euros a year, gives you some privacy and 500MB of space. The Pro option lands you the offline editor and 1GB of storage.
There will be a race on now to see who can make the best use of Prezi at a live event. I’m certainly going to be entering.
Source: Clive Shepherd