Not only is relying on hotel WIFI a bad plan, so is downloading clips off YouTube. Relying on WIFI is amateurville and bound to fail at the worse time. My instructions are based on working from a video file you have safely downloaded to your computer and have permission to use. In the end, the WIFI failed and the part of the video we were able to see was, frankly, not worth the wait. I recently watched a fellow speaker employing the help of 3 A/V crew (who, I’m sure, had better things to do) frantically trying to get a WIFI connection. The trick for any slide you create, including ones with video, is they have to make your speech better-not be a distraction. Like any tool, if you want to include a video, you need to know how to use it. Great presentations combine valuable content with artful presentation skills and the select use of audiovisual and audience participation. The real art of presenting is, of course, much more than that. In this post, I’m focussing on videos and slides. Today, everyone uses Prezi, PowerPoint, or Keynote to wow their audiences and support their message. Of course, those days are long gone and you can’t even give away a carousel projector. I also used to waste a good 30 minutes before every speech stuffing folded business cards under projectors trying to get both images to line up on the screen. It’s all that was available at the time, so audiences didn’t know they were missing anything. It was a monster of black boxes and wires that fired both projectors (on a good day) at the same time. When I started speaking I used a dual Kodak carousel projector system handed down by my dear, late brother Dan. And if you stick around to the end, I’ll share mistakes to avoid and final thoughts from someone who has presented with slides to over 1,200 audiences (me.) The old days I’ll also show you how to avoid the embarrassment of your clip not running when you have bad WIFI. In this post, I’ll walk you through how to insert the clip and the tricks to creating a seamless transition from slide to video and back to slide. So you want to spruce up your presentation with a little video? Cool.
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