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Every presentation ever!

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I watched this video some months ago on Duarte's blog, and finished the book last weekend. I recommend the book,  it has some fresh views of presentation. Specially relevant is the analogy of how presentations resemble  bottled water. Water (the message) is timeless, precious, and always important. The bottle (the package) has adapted through time and socienties to deliver the message. Enjoy it!

Mini Tutorial: The Ken Burns effect in slideware

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First  things first, what is the Ken Burns effect? Take a look at this "video" That simultaneous zooming and moving of the image (call panning) is called the Ken Burns effect. Using this effect you can literally move from the "big picture" to the details within seconds without losing your audience. And it is easy to do. Now, if (like me) are a documentary fan, you might have seen this effect before The tutorial I got the idea of this tutorial from Jakob Jochmann's Cutting Edge Keynote. This last video is made of two slides, the  first one has a size of 1538 × 2048 but has been reduced to 576 × 768 to fit in the canvas that is 1024 × 768. The next step is add the zoom (scale) and move action. Image of man from Wikimedia Commons by Christaan Briggs under CC-by-SA license. The order of the action doesn't matter for their are set to be simultaneous.  After adding the move, add the zoom(scale). In this case I zoomed 135% so that man's chin in