Prezi.com - have used it every now and then and quite like it
Ask HN: Which software do you use for your presentations?
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Re: Ask HN: Which software do you use for your presentations?
#42I've moved away from this style of presentation. Everything on a slide feels like dead content. People fall asleep when you whip out a slide deck. These days if I want to show you code, I'll open up my IDE and show it to you, right there in my code window. I don't really understand why this is different from screenshotting the code and putting it in a slide, but it is. The audience feels differently about code in you…
Thanks for your points. Very valid when you are demoing/presenting to a live audience. However, I think I should have clarified in my post that I am not presenting to a live audience. Rather, I just want to use a Presentation software to export a video (or I might just screen record the presentation itself if an export to video feature is not available) and then add a voice over on top of it. Also, I am not going to…
Nice. I find keynote is very easy to use and has lots of transitions and animations. It’s very easy to get nice, consistent looking presentations.
Re: Ask HN: Which software do you use for your presentations?
#43For talks and quick presentations I use `present` [0]; for more formal settings, its beamer :)
`present` mostly does the job & one can also give a live code-example (Golang) while in the presentation. As per the requirements mentioned above, it does not do 1.
Re: Ask HN: Which software do you use for your presentations?
#44Basically reveal.js, but rarely directly. I've my own template and processing that takes Markdown as input, and converts it to HTML for reveal using Pandoc.
Re: Ask HN: Which software do you use for your presentations?
#45Not software, but a presentation on how to make presentations: https://perl.plover.com/yak/presentation/ It's 20 year old, therefore completely timeless advice.
I had an excellent talk about talks a couple years ago, and have actively been looking for other _fantastic_ ways to achieve the same, "sticky talk" goals.
In particular, it is interesting to see the same point (don't overload on content), but approached very differently (don't recap vs. recap a _lot_).
Re: Ask HN: Which software do you use for your presentations?
#46I use Keynote. It is beyond good (for my needs anyway).
Re: Ask HN: Which software do you use for your presentations?
#47I HATE slides, so when I need to show something I just use Emacs/org-mode, animations are limited but possible see for instance https://youtu.be/B6jfrrwR10k though I do avoid them. I can "embed" anything since Emacs is my windows manager (EXWM) so any X11 application can be "embedded" as a buffer even if again normally I do not use them. It's VERY easy and fun to use once you've learnt a bit (a not so quick but not so long thing for the outcome) and it's not mere slide but anything. I have essentially anything in Emacs, my home infra (NixOS) included via org-mode tangled from org-babel/org-roam notes. I have my files attached, I access them via Emacs (search&narrow/org-roam-node-find etc), my mails and so on.
When for some reasons I have to provide slides to others I'll simply export them to LaTeX/beamer sharing the resulting pdf.
Re: Ask HN: Which software do you use for your presentations?
#48Latex with beamer. Is there a better solution out there?
I really wouldn't call that "really easy/fun to use". I think it's only a good option if your presentation is full of complicated equations (e.g. giving a lecture course in a maths heavy subject)
In terms of user friendliness, perhaps.
In terms of making beautiful slides, it’s hard to beat.
For math, sure, latex is the top choice.
Re: Ask HN: Which software do you use for your presentations?
#49I've moved away from this style of presentation. Everything on a slide feels like dead content. People fall asleep when you whip out a slide deck. These days if I want to show you code, I'll open up my IDE and show it to you, right there in my code window. I don't really understand why this is different from screenshotting the code and putting it in a slide, but it is. The audience feels differently about code in you…
Thanks for your points. Very valid when you are demoing/presenting to a live audience. However, I think I should have clarified in my post that I am not presenting to a live audience. Rather, I just want to use a Presentation software to export a video (or I might just screen record the presentation itself if an export to video feature is not available) and then add a voice over on top of it. Also, I am not going to…
For YT-alike presentation than you better use your desktop, not a specific software, recording the desktop (partially automated as needed, with eventual post-production as needed) instead.
Re: Ask HN: Which software do you use for your presentations?
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
I really wouldn't call that "really easy/fun to use". I think it's only a good option if your presentation is full of complicated equations (e.g. giving a lecture course in a maths heavy subject)
In terms of user friendliness, perhaps. In terms of making beautiful slides, it’s hard to beat. For math, sure, latex is the top choice.
I find it easier to make beautiful slides in a tool where I have the ability to place things by hand