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A word on visuals: Transitions

Transitions are problematic. Most presentation software come with more transitions than wanted. The people at Duarte already covered with in a series of videos called The Trouble with Transitions . The best transitions are the simple ones and are best used when used scarcely. Here is a small collection. I chose these because they are similar to small set simple cuts editors used when putting a film together. Dissolve Note that a slide can dissolve to black or white. The technical term is fade-out. Fading out to black is also known as black-out, and similarly fading out to white is known as white-out. Using a combination of fading out and in, might help the speak force a well deserved pause: This "white pause" is appropriate when the speaker ant to signal that the next topic is weakly coupled to the previous one. Move-in This might also be known as cover. Read below to see why… Push If the whote pause signaled weakly coupling, the push transi