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Record a Video Presentation with Yourself and Screen

In the business and education world, video conferences, video lectures and video presentations are now an inevitable part of our lives.

However not all video tools are created equal, so we went out looking for the best tool for recording a presentation with yourself and screen the same video.

So in this tutorial I’ll be covering a super easy way to create a video presentation with yourself and your content on the screen. The end results is a quick and hassle free video which you can instantly share, using a cool called Prezi Video which literally puts other video tools to shame!

The end result is a beautiful video page which you can share with others or make a live video presentation meetings just like zoom:

The benefits of using Prezi Video Tool:

• Free – create up to 5 projects and 15 minutes of video (+ live video presentations)
• Fast – There is not video upload . You don’t need to record, render or upload huge video files. You can instantly share what you create (and I really mean instantly)
• Fun & Easy – No complicated software solutions, there’s just an easy to use online tool and creating your video is simple and intuitive.

How is Prezi Video unique?

Instead of simply presenting yourself and the computer screen, you actually make a new regular slide-based Prezi presentation (or use your existing PowerPoint slides) with your web camera input as the background.

This means you can present your slides and show yourself on the screen at the same time or simply make a voiceover to your slides.

You also have the option to record a video or make a live presentation with other attendees.

It’s a great choice for:

• School assignments – make a video and show your research.
• Business presentations – pitching your idea.
• Marketing – presenting your product or service.

Step 1 – Create a Prezi Video Account

Go to Prezi Video and create your Free account.

If you don’t want to make a trial pro account, be sure to click the Basic Free option in the corner (after creating your account.)

Alternatively you can also go to the Prezi Pricing page to see the different options for account types. There are also discounts for educators, but the basic account is free forever. You also have the option to sign up via Google or Facebook account.

Step 2 – Create Your Presentation & Record Video

Once you have your account setup, then you’re ready for creating your first video.

The first thing to understand here is that Prezi has many tools, which include Prezi Video, Prezi Present and Prezi Design.

Prezi has a pretty nice onboarding and tutorial part, once you sign in, so you’ll be presented with a lot of different options, but for the sake of this video tutorial, you can directly jump to creating a blank new video .

On that screen you’ll already see a decent amount amount of different video templates, which you can select and preview with your live web camera video as the background:

What’s great about the Prezi Video tool, is that you can easily toggle between the modes any time and choose whether you would like to show only the camera, camera + slides or only the slides.

Choose a template you like, and then customize the presentation with your content.

You can easily add slides (frames), and modify them with text or images.

You don’t also have to worry about saving your content… all the slides which you create are automatically saved to your Prezi account under your videos.

So you can always come back later and edit the frames of your video (video template) and record the actual video later.

Once your slides are all finished, then it’s time to hit that record button.

No worries, none of us are born performers, and watching yourself on video can be quite awkward, but fortunately you can easily save a few test videos, before you record the real deal.

Step 3 – Share Your Video or Make a Live Presentation

After you’ve recorded your first video, you’ll get options on how you wish to share it or record it again.

Choose whether the video is public or private or share the link to the video. You can even control if the video (the slide content) is reusable, meaning other people can also create a video with the slides you have designed…

and you can also browse for hundreds of video templates yourself, and reuse content other people have made.

Extra Option – Make a Custom Presentation or Import PowerPoint

Another great thing about Prezi video is, that you don’t have to start from scratch to create your content, but you can also use all the existing 1000+ Prezi Templates for making your presentation or import

In this step you can also first create your presentation content, just like you would in PowerPoint, however keep in mind that for best results, keep content on one side of the screen, so you also have room for yourself in the video.

Top Reasons You’ll Love Prezi Video:

Turn on auto captions – this will generate an auto transcript so the viewers of the video can also see and read the text.

Choose from templates – there’s also a decent amount of video template which are 100% designed for this specific use case.

Import Powerpoint – you can also import your existing PPT slides to Prezi, and make a video presentation with your PowerPoint slides.

Control privacy and sharing – no downloading of huge video files. Instantly Share what you create.

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From PowerPoint to Prezi: How Fernando Rych elevated his presentation pitch 

Get your team on prezi – watch this on demand video.

Naba Ahmed April 04, 2024

There is always a risk of miscommunication when presenting or sharing information.

However, for a Prezi user, this is not a concern when making pitch presentations. This user is confident that the information has been presented clearly and only needs to concentrate on closing the deal.

Meet Fernando Rych . He’s the founder of an innovation agency where he pitches potential investors and executives. Recently, he met with Danone and Sodexo who wanted to do a huge transformation inside their businesses. They hired his agency as a result of his successful client pitches made in Prezi. 

Discovering Prezi and closing deals 

At the age of 20, Fernando Rych was offered the position of CTO for six companies. In this role, he was tasked with leading executive meetings and presenting at conferences for brands like Coke, Nike, Calvin Klein, etc. These companies were looking to expand their markets to Brazil where Fernando is based. To achieve this, he needed to pitch his presentation on the main stage. 

His goal was to find the best tool to help his audience absorb information. And that’s when he discovered Prezi . 

Once he learned that Prezi was 16.4% more engaging and 25.3% more effective than PowerPoint , he knew he made the right choice. 

“When you change from one slide to another in PowerPoint, you’re losing precious seconds of attention,” Fernando said. 

Improved learning experience 

When he first began teaching, he typically used PowerPoint and Google Slides but disliked how distracted his students were with reading all the text on the slides. With Prezi, he was able to highlight more visual elements, allowing his students to focus on him and not just on the presentation. 

“When you do that in Prezi, it’s a very smooth transition, and you don’t have a moment where you have to scan the entire screen to search for the information before understanding where you are,” Fernando said. 

A few seconds add up, especially as a professor. Fernando teaches MBA courses at the University of Sao Paolo, where he incorporates presentation tips into every lecture. For one of his business consulting courses, he explains how to build a strong presentation, a business speech, and an elevator pitch. 

When it comes to presenting, he says that in a traditional presentation format, it’s “like jumping or teleporting to another continent but with Prezi, it’s like walking your way to that place. You’re able to understand the whole journey and take your time experiencing it – that’s Prezi. ” 

Staying ahead of the latest technological trends 

As a LinkedIn Top Voice in information technology, Fernando is always looking to refresh his technological skills and stay up-to-date on the latest tools. That’s how he stumbled upon the Google Developer Communities . He loved the community format of knowledge sharing and wanted to give back as well. Fernando used Prezi to lecture to these communities, helping companies like Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, Paypal, Slack, and Twitter, on how to create and empower their communities. 

In total, Fernando has founded 24 communities, supported 950+ events, and put on 80+ hackathons. One of the hackathons he organized was for the United Nations, where he set the Latin America record for most people physically present at a hackathon and was awarded the distinction of Latin American Ambassador. 

When he’s not supporting communities, Fernando works as a Senior Global Innovation Consultant. There, one of his main responsibilities is to find impossible projects and make them possible. 

For all of these presentations, he uses Prezi to make sure they’re paying attention to him and the content, instead of the slides changing from one to the other. Fernando says he uses Prezi on a daily basis to achieve his target results. 

Making Prezi accessible to all 

Fernando loves the reactions and responses he receives when he uses Prezi. He wants to allow others to have that same feeling when they’re presenting. That’s why he only uses Prezi’s templates. 

After an event, people will frequently ask him how to create such fancy presentations. To which Fernando will respond “Yes, I’m using a template. You don’t have to start from scratch to get the same fancy style.” 

If you’re interested in making presentations just like Fernando, get started with a presentation from our library of templates . 

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