Video Powerpoint Applications

The days of boring PowerPoint presentations are over. Today’s technology allows presentation creators incredible flexibility in design and execution including animations, voice recordings and movie clips.

The end result is a far more enjoyable experience for audiences, compared to the old “click next” style.

Slideshow presentations are meant to be informative, to encapsulate the visual and auditory channels for reaching your audience. But to engage your audience, the presentation should be dynamic and entertaining.

Improved effects, themes, and enhanced formatting options are just a few of the capabilities required to create great-looking, dynamic presentations.

Applications such as PowerPoint 2007 ushered in a new generation of presentation tools, other open source software soon followed and after some maturing, presentation styles have become far more sophisticated.

Plus, more user-intuitive features have made it possible for anyone to create a professional looking presentation regardless of their software knowledge.
But no matter how advanced presentation software may become, the key element of a presentation’s delivery is often down to the person who is presenting it.

In traditional slideshow presentations, there has always been a live presenter who delivers content and explains each slide to the audience. His function was to ensure that the presentation moved forward (sometimes literally by clicking through) and to answer viewer questions. Though presentation delivery styles have changed, the human factor cannot be entirely omitted.

Though slideshows can now be set to timed transitions, audiences respond more positively to a human presenter. And removing this key element reduces a presentation to little more than a video.

The reason behind this reaction is that presenters are assumed to be authorities on the slideshow content and allow viewers to associate an actual person with the information being shown. Without this ‘authority figure’, presentations are often viewed as less credible.

If you are delivering a presentation via the internet or CD/DVD to a large audience or over great distances, having a live presenter isn’t feasible. But there are still things you can do to help create a ‘trust association’ for your slideshow.

One option might be to have a scheduled live broadcast of your presentation and inviting your audience to attend. This will allow you to have a presenter available to answer questions and explain the content. The only drawback to this method is that members of your audience may not be available at the appointed time and running your video broadcast more than once can become costly.

But a more flexible and economical method might be video recording your presenter and timing the movie to coincide with your slideshow presentation. This allows your audience to create an association between the subject and its authority more effectively.

And since the presenter can give more detailed explanations and at faster speed than simple text, the result will not only be more engaging but also more efficient in delivery.

One such web-based solution is offered by Video Persons

With their state-of-the-art, nationwide/international studio facilities, Video Persons can record the presenter of your choice, or employ actors to provide a professional polish to your online PowerPoint slide shows.