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With the release of the new iPad in March, it’s probably a good time to revisit this device as a presentation tool. Each year the options grow, so let’s run through some of the most popular ones, which fall into two general buckets: presentation conversion and presentation creation.

Many of our requests fall into the former category – you already have a presentation and need it to look good in iOS. If your presentation is in PowerPoint or Keynote, the best bet is to present in Keynote for iPad. While billed as having the same capabilities as the Mac desktop version of the same name, in reality it’s a little more like “Keynote Light.”  However, it displays both PowerPoint and Keynote files well and even allows for basic editing of content on the fly. Just make sure to proof your presentation on your iPad before going live with it because the app doesn’t always display everything perfectly. Fonts, text size, animations, and some graphic effects such as drop shadows may be altered. And, while embedded sound files are supported, any linked multimedia will be lost (see below for multimedia solutions). 

Type of Project: Tradeshow Booth Video & iPad Presentation

Industry: Technology – Mobile Solutions

Problem: Our client needed visual materials for a conference he was attending. The existing presentation did not relate to the way the client wanted to present his company. As part of the overall package, the client wanted a dynamic video to be looped on a screen at his tradeshow booth to give people a quick idea of what they do, and his salespeople needed to be able to give one-on-one presentations on iPads to booth visitors.

Solution: We approached this project as we do most others. We listened. By doing so, we were able to take a presentation that the client felt was disconnected from his message and have it better match his brand’s voice. Not only did our designers recreate the presentation to better align with the client’s branding strategy, they also designed it to communicate more clearly through visual representations of the message. The presentation was done in Keynote then tested on Keynote for iPad to ensure that all graphics and text formatting were in place. With the client’s branding in mind, the video was designed to attract passersby and provide a quick overview of the client’s company, thereby helping to increase the client’s lead generation at the event. Once passersby were drawn in to the booth, the salespeople equipped with their iPad-ready presentation were able to educate the booth visitors and drive sales.

Maybe you’ve heard of Prezi, maybe you haven’t. It’s been around since 2009, and there’s been a lot of buzz about this presentation software. In the past year we’ve gotten to know Prezi pretty well, and with several prezis under our belt, we wanted to help you get to know this new medium. In fact, we’ve gotten to know Prezi so well that we have joined the Prezi Pioneers beta testing group so that we may provide feedback to developers as they continue to fine tune the software.

Prezi is a cloud-based multimedia presentation creator that allows you to frame your presentation in an animated, interactive, canvas format, and provides you with zooming functionality so that you may zoom in and out of the presentation elements on the virtual canvas. Prezis can be viewed in a Web browser, offline, or via the Prezi iPad viewer.

To get a feel for what Prezi can do, check out our very own prezi.

• ProPoint Graphics Prezi