Have you ever sat in a presentation where they try to show you a video during the presentation, only to move out of the presentation, show you their ugly desktop background and then open a movie file, only to play it in a small window on the screen. Does anyone else find that frustrating or is it just me?
It is really easy these days to embed (put in) a video into your presentation. All you need to do is drag and drop the file and it will open, and when you come to the video in your presentation it will start playing, without any exiting of your presentation.
This will allow for a much more professional presentation and for such a simple trick, it still seems to wow some people.
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My tutor publicly thanked me for embedding a video in my presentation a few weeks ago.
Its crazy how much joy a slightly relevant video can give, and how easily it breaks the tedium…
It sure is crazy! It’s so easy to do but yet it seems magical to most.
The other thing that I have done that has wowed people was to make elements of a graph appear separately. I’m wondering when the majority of people will catch on to how easy it is to make an interesting presentation.
Thanks for commenting Ryan!