Epitome: Prezi

Prezi users can now import presentations from Google Slides directly into Prezi Video, the company announced Th. This is the latest in a series of integrations with online video and collaboration tools.

This change makes it easier for people to use existing presentations congenital in other formats with Prezi Video.

"Nosotros've seen so many users come up on board and use a cloud-native platform like Google Workspace," Prezi CEO Jim Szafranski said. "They've been able to use Prezi Video with workarounds and now they tin can do it directly."

Since the COVID-nineteen pandemic started in early on 2020, businesses have turned to video conferencing to keep daily operations running. Most video conferencing platforms accept seen a fasten in use and Zoom has go a verb every bit well equally a very assisting company. In February 2020, Zoom added more users than it did during the entire previous year. In Q1 2020, Zoom'southward revenue was $122 million. In Q1 2021, that number went upwardly to $328 million.

Prezi Video allows users to present videos, GIFs, presentations, images, and type text on-screen of a alive or recorded video. In improver to Google Meet, Prezi Video works with all major video streaming platforms, including Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Webex and GoToMeeting. Prezi announced an integration with Google Workspace earlier this year.

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"In newscaster style, now I can very quickly have me and my content side by side without having to writer a new presentation in Prezi," he said.

Presenters encounter the same content that audition members run into during a video session. The Prezi video app runs aslope Zoom. Prezi Video uses a virtual camera to merge the presenter'due south content and camera feed and present the combined information dorsum to the video streaming platform.

Szafranski said he has seen a new trend among business users of using Prezi Video to change how meetings are run. Business organization leaders record their remarks and send out the presentation before the scheduled coming together. Colleagues can sentinel the presentation ahead of fourth dimension and and so use the scheduled meeting time to discuss the content.

Prezi records presentations for board meetings ahead of time and posts the recordings in the company Slack channel.

"People like to have the flexibility around time and identify by mixing live and recorded meetings," he said. "If you give employees tools like this, they'll discover creative means to connect with customers."

Szafranski said he has seen much more apply of the asynchronous approach in teaching but expects to see this tactic aggrandize among business users.

"Remote employees feel way more included with this format and people are starting to become more comfy with having the follow-up conversation in Slack," he said.

He said that people besides are using Prezi Video to record brusque snippets to promote upcoming meetings.

"We've seen people record the agenda slide or send a three-infinitesimal clip the day before a coming together to show that they are prepared for a meeting and have interesting content," he said.

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He also has seen more people use Prezi Video to experiment with an asynchronous approach to meetings.

"If y'all're doing a one-to-many lecture, you tin can tape it and let people consume it on their own time," he said. "When people start recording meetings, they don't have to crowd calendars."

Szafranski said that these recordings too are a skillful way to introduce new team members to a project.

Szafranski said that the visitor has 100 million users in education and business. Prezi Video launched in Nov 2019 equally the company anticipated an increase in more online presentations.

"We were able to really help our users when the pandemic hitting and nosotros saw our education base offset recording their lessons and sending it out to students," Szafranski said.

According to the company, Prezi Video is used in 150,000 organizations around the world and half the schoolhouse districts in the US.