What do you get when you combine a presentation done with Prezi and the screen capture tool ScreenFlow?
A pretty cool way to quickly create a video to tell a story!
This morning our Voxeo Labs team was working on launching a new application called “Tropo AGItate“. They had a blog post, but it didn’t really go far enough in telling the story of how this new service worked. So our CEO Jonathan Taylor, who has been experimenting a lot with Prezi lately, whipped up a quick Prezi to explain what happens. A group of us collectively tweaked it a small bit … and then I launched ScreenFlow on my iMac, put Prezi in full-screen mode and recorded the presentation with a voiceover.
It did take me several takes to get the timing down right… but after that I simply went to the File menu in ScreenFlow, chose “Publish to YouTube…“, filled out the video description fields… and a few minutes later the video was exported and uploaded to YouTube!
Super simple and easy! And we were pleased with the result:
(Warning to my marketing friends: This is from our Labs team and so is on the geekier side of things 🙂
P.S. A tip to anyone who my try this kind of recording themselves… Prezi lets you advance using the right arrow key, so I didn’t have to use my mouse at all.
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Dan: This is very cool, and gives me an idea on something similar I could do for LiveWorld. Ours might be just a *touch* less geeky, though 🙂
Hi Dan. This looks great. I’ve struggled with Prezi in terms of using it to create confidential content. Prezi only allows you to embed content that is stored on their servers. Therefore even though I’ve paid for a Pro version, I can’t export my Prezi as a SWF or a FLV file, so that we can embed it safely within our network.
I tried to overcome this by doing what you did to get a voice over ie. do a screenscast. Unfortunately I don’t have a Mac and using some Windows apps, and the output was horrible. The Prezi transitions were very jumpy and it just wasn’t viewable.
Camtasia Studio 8.0 will work fine on Windows;
http://www.softwarecasa.com/camtasia-studio.html?gclid=CPDKgerCzrMCFW_KtAodqR0AnA
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I’ve just stumbled upon this, Dan, via searching for a tool like ScreenFlow for the Windows platform. Even though I’m not a huge fan of Prezi I am impressed by how quickly a video-based promotional tool can be put together. Cheers!