Present with Live Prezi - Prezi Tutorial

- [Instructor] So far the presentation options we've looked at in this chapter, assume that you're going to be in the same room as your audience when you're presenting. But as you're probably aware, it's become a lot more common to give presentations when you can't be on site with other people. Fortunately, Prezi offers a couple of solutions for presenting remotely like Prezi video and live Prezi. And we have an entire chapter covering Prezi video coming up, so let's take a look at live Prezi here. Live Prezi involves sending a link to your audience members that they'll be able to click to view your presentation from their own computers, in real time, as you're presenting. Live Prezi is available for users with a plus or higher level subscription. So let's take a look at how this works. I'm here viewing my Landon hotel Prezi in edit mode again, the first step is to send a live Prezi link to the people you're going to be presenting to. We can do this by coming up to the share menu and choosing live Prezi, I'll click get started, here in the setup screen, you'll enter a unique name for your Prezi, trying to make it something easy to remember and type. So for my Prezi I'll use Landon hotel 20, and I'll click confirm. Now, if you see a message that the name you've chosen has already taken you'll have to pick another one. But you can see the address you'll be able to send people here. If you want to protect your presentation with a code to prevent anyone who gets the address from entering your presentation, you can toggle the protect with access code switch, and then type in the passcode and then be sure to copy that passcode and include it in the email or other communication you send to your attendees. I'm not going to bother with that right now. Then click copy to copy the URL or address to your computer's clipboard. So you can paste it into an email, a tweet a Facebook event, or send it in whichever way you want. Now at this point, if you're not ready to present yet and most likely you won't be since you'll need time to send out the address, you can just click the close button. When it actually comes time to present, you can go back to the share menu and click live Prezi again to reopen this window and notice the address remains the same. You're free to change this address at any time by clicking the edit button, but just don't change it before you give your presentation or else your audience probably won't be able to find it. Also your attendees won't be able to see the Prezi until you start the live presentation. In fact, let me show you what this looks like from their point of view. Now I've copied this address, I'm going to switch over to a different browser. So let's say this is the browser of someone attending my presentation. They've received the address I sent and they paste it in their web browser. And because I haven't started my presentation yet they just see this, please wait screen. So there's no way for them to get a glimpse of your presentation until you're ready. And let me just rearrange the size of my presentation window here, so we can see both at the same time. But at the appointed time, you'll open up the Prezi and then click start live Prezi, so I'm now in present mode, and you can see it's now loading in the viewers browser over here on the right. And I can start giving my presentation, and as you can see, I can zoom into different areas and the attendees see the exact same thing I'm seeing. There's a PRC at number one indicating that one person is viewing my presentation. As more people sign on that number will increase. Now, one thing you might've noticed is missing here is an audio communication aspect. Unless you plan on giving a silent presentation, there's no way in Prezi for your audience to hear you as you're presenting, any music or sounds you've included in the Prezi, like the audio from an embedded video will be audible but currently there's no way to speak live as you're presenting and be heard through Prezi. Now, a solution to this would be to present using Prezi video which allows you to stream both your presentation and yourself through your webcam, but again, we'll look at this later. If you do want to use live Prezi and be heard by your audience you'll need to use an option like a conference call or through a group audio Skype session. You'll have to figure out beforehand what works best for your setup,but I wanted to point out that live Prezi doesn't currently have a way to let you speak to your attendees. All right but once you're done giving your presentation you can click the end button to end the live feed. Your attendees screen will go blank and they'll no longer be able to see your Prezi. Now, if you want to be able to let your clients or audience view your Prezi at their own pace without you having to walk them through it there are some sharing options available and we'll take a look at those next. But for now that's how to do a live Prezi. It's a great option for giving a presentation when you can't be on site with your audience.