Prezi Review: Ultimate Video Innovation For Content Creators

I am sure you know about Prezi, for those who are new, Prezi is a popular and unique online presentation platform that offers an innovative, dynamic, and flexible means of making presentations through canvases that enable you to shift to different topics by zooming in and out of your layout with a virtual camera.

Unlike the traditional slide presentations, Prezi offers a kind of mind map-style presentation that is more eye-catching to the audience and easy to follow along. Their legacy product Prezi present has captured hearts and now they have stepped up their game to let you design scroll stopping graphics as well as engaging videos.

Before we dive in to the awesomeness of Prezi, here is a quick snapshot of what we will cover in this article.

Prezi offers three product categories;

1. Prezi Present,
2. Prezi Video, and
3. Prezi Design

With remote work and online coaching taking the Internet by storm, each of these tools is unique and powerful on its own to help you create mind-blowing contents.

We know some of you have written to us asking about tips to add attractive graphics and overlays to your online presentation, that is exactly what Prezi video will enable you to do.

If you are eager to read about the new Prezi Video and Prezi Design, you can scroll past the next section where we discuss Prezi Present.

1. Prezi Present

Having a good presentation can mean the difference between securing your start-up capital, earning your next promotion, growing your popularity as an articulate public speaker, or an outright disappointment due to failure of connecting with your audience.

If you often perform presentations, you already know that being an efficient presenter is not just about passing the information to your audience, it’s about marrying the words you say with the correct visual presentations that not only makes it easy for your audience to follow along but also keeps them fully attentive and arousing their desire to want to listen to you more and more.

Having said that, the biggest question that arises is, how do you design your presentation? What visual effects do you use? What layout do you use? And biggest of all, which platform do you choose to design your presentation?

Well, I know you are thinking about the normal slide presentations that everyone makes, but what if you chose to be different and try something more unique, captivating, and one that gives more flexibility than the conventional slide presentation applications.

Meet Prezi Present

Prezi Present offers an option to design your presentation using smart structures for arranging your content through easy drag-and-drop features. You can also present over over video during online meetings where your content appears alongside you on the screen.

You can have your presentation panned out on a wide digital canvas, from which each point is drawn through zooming in and out, panning across either left to right or vice versa. Here is a quick video of how it works.

As you can see from the preview, Prezi offers unlimited flexibility in designing, shifting the ball to you in terms of imagination. It will do whatever you want, thereby making the design process and presentation fun. Best of all, it gives your presentation a unique cinematic feel that no other presentation platform can provide.

Features

All the above features are very useful especially when you want to create multiple presentations in a very short time. We have found the Powerpoint imports really handy along with the narration features.

Let us move to the next tool which helps you create interactive and engaging videos.

2. Prezi Video

Prezi Video is the unique selling point and features that sets Prezi apart from other presentation software. If you are the kind of person that creates online presentations often, has an online teaching program or an online course, Prezi Video is a must try and you will see why.

Here is a quick video guide of how it works and the vide is created using, you guessed it; Prezi Video.

You might be wondering if this is going to be hard to create a video of this scale. I understand it might sound complicated, but in fact it’s not.

It’s actually quite straightforward:

Prezi video offers handy templates to get you started. All you need to do is select a template of your liking, customize it and add it to your video. That’s all. What’s even better is, It also gives you the chance to convert your PowerPoint presentations into Prezi presentations. We have tested it and it works!

The best part is, Prezi video is not just available in your web browser, but it’s available as a Desktop application. We are really glad Prezi have thought about the option, the Desktop application makes the video creations process much easier. You enjoy the flexibility of either presenting live using the Prezi desktop application of which you can connect with the live presenting platform of your choice.

Alternatively, you can record your presentation and share them later with your audience. For easy sharing, all you need to do is drop a link to Slack, Ms Teams, or any other messaging app to share your videos.

There is a small learning curve, but this is worth it. You definitely need to try this incredible video feature.

3. Prezi Design

Prezi teams continue their awesomeness with another tool in their arsenal. This is not just another online graphic design tool. As you have seen with the Prezi present, and Prezi video, they develop a unique flair to the product suite and Prezi Design is no different.

Prezi Design allows you to create stunning animated and interactive designs with big visual impacts.

Thanks to their easy drag-and-drop editor, you can design stunning creatives guaranteed to leave your audience in awe. The best part is you don’t need to have any professional editing background – a minimal learning curve.

You can add graphic options such as maps, charts, infographics, reports, dashboards, slides, posters, email headers, social posts, and customs.

Here is a quick video of the platform.

After adding the different graphics, you are given a chance to easily add the filters, effect, and animations of your choice to make the presentation even more appealing.

Additionally, you can also add animated GIFs, video covers, animated graphs, zoom, bounce, flip, or face text animation options. Once you are satisfied with your designs, you can download them in different options to fit your different uses. It lets you download files like PNG, JPG, PDF and MP4 formats.

Prezi Design especially comes alive when designing reports such as company profits, other types of graphical presentations such as research data, simplified marketing data presentation, education contexts by designing interactive presentation, magazines, government reports, etc. The list is endless.

The limit of what you can accomplish with Prezi is limited to your imagination. That’s how good it is.

Pros

• Unique and dynamic presentation formats that keep your audience attentive.
• Unlimited editing options.
• Amazing option for people who find it challenging to be creative from the start and need some clues on what to add where.
• Excellent interface and easy navigation.

Cons

• You need time to learn how to use it to the maximum; however, you can find numerous tutorials online.
• Limited templates for Prezi Business. (more being added)

Let’s be honest, the Prezi suite of products are amazing. You might also come across other features that you don’t like; nonetheless, for a program that has been rated 4.6/5 on Capterra, GetApp, and 5/5 on FinancesOnline, it is the closest you can get to perfection.

Prezi has a set of tools with unique features designed with you as the customer in mind.

Pricing

Prezi offers three different premium options, all with a free trial.

• Standard – It’s the basic option. Starts at $3 per month and offers limited designing tools compared to the other plans.
• Plus – Starts at $7 per month and offers advanced designing features such as unlimited maximum record time for videos, presenter notes, full HD-quality videos, among others.
• Premium – It is the top plan and goes for $59 per month. It unlocks all the features that Prezi has to offer and is best suited for big companies that need all the functionality.

Here is a link to Prezi pricing plans.

Final Thoughts

Prezi is definitely a platform you should try out if you make regular presentations, especially in the business environment.

Prezi has a lot of amazing features to explore which would make your presentations not only unique and entertaining but also help you communicate better and seamlessly, unlike the conventional slide formats. It’s a near-perfect rating by more than 2,000 users on just two rating platforms is evidencing enough of how good this platform is.

We tried it, we loved it, and Prezi is sure to win more hearts. ♥♥♥

As always, information is power; you now know about Prezi; you can visit and learn more on Prezi website by clicking here.

Stay tuned for our next article.

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