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rylan started following the idea "Make Embedding Simple" in Prezi.

rylan replied on August 12, 2009 22:47 to the question "Error 2038" in Prezi:

will this situation change any time soon

I have a radio tower delivering fairly remote Internet and so it never flawless!

rylan replied on August 10, 2009 05:13 to the question "No uploading of pictures (jpg) possible with Linux" in Prezi:

for sum reason they only upload for me if they are really small. like 50 KB
ubuntu 9.04

rylan replied on August 09, 2009 17:04 to the idea "Having several possible pathes in a single presentation" in Prezi:

,Drew

"Here's my main concern - keep the functionality simple at this point and do not destroy the presenters flow with decisions that must be made based on color or number but on the elements in the presentation."

I agree with you- simplicity is very important. Colors and numbers may be great for building the paths but, elements/ objects are my preferred way to chose the next path to.

Thanks for joining the form, I found your opinion valuable.
and a big thanks for reading the hole thread, thats rare!

rylan replied on August 03, 2009 18:47 to the idea "Having several possible pathes in a single presentation" in Prezi:

For me it would be just scroll to zoom out, click the object I want and know by memory what path its on. I dont require any preset click or keys for navigating path junctions.

I totally see where your coming from (lol presenting was frustrating before i got that mouse) I think there should be a way to
assign keys or clicks to paths.

With the picture above in mind, The first click on a color in the ring could select it, at which point any key you hit would be assigned to that path on that junction, the key character would show up right in the color ring. If you click a color twice it becomes the default and the next button no longer acts randomly.

If a default ring (shown in dark blue) is clicked again then the ring gose back to random and you can edit the assigned keys again.

Would that work for you Gruth?

Random is an exiting feature for me to because for self guided web sites every users could have a different experience every time they came to the site.... even if there wasn't any new content since they were there last!

"once in "show" mode it has to be transparent to the audience....but at the same time apparent to the presenter " - Your right on the money Gurth!

Perhaps it would be nice to have a key combination, say Alt+P, that shows the paths and there keys while in show mode, or have the path info always showing on the presenters small screen but not on the projector screen.

Another helpful feature would be a second frame in the browser that loads one object ahead of the actual presentation.

rylan replied on August 03, 2009 17:04 to the idea "Having several possible pathes in a single presentation" in Prezi:

Well I can only speak for myself, basically I wouldn't want any paths to show in any way while im presenting. I would prefer to memorize the default paths.

When I present I use a gyration mouse (like a wee remote). Basically I can control the mouse pointer as I walk around the room very easily. Navigating a prezi is very easy even if im walking and talking in a crowd! Because most people dont have this my opinions about the interface may be unique.

rylan replied on August 02, 2009 20:30 to the idea "Having several possible pathes in a single presentation" in Prezi:

haha I love a challenge, and that is a tricky question. how about this:

When an object is assigned too two or more paths a ring with the colours of each path surrounds the path point. If the ring is left multicoloured then the tab or next button will chose a random path. If you click on one of the path colours in the ring then that path becomes dominant and the hole ring goes that colour(like the deep blue path in the pic).

rylan replied on August 01, 2009 14:55 to the idea "Having several possible pathes in a single presentation" in Prezi:

ya, that sounds great Peter,

I think If an object is on more than one path thats fine, the tab key should just keep you on the path you were on.

rylan replied on August 01, 2009 14:49 to the idea "Navigation- Draw image maps over anything but use paths instead of links" in Prezi:

Yes links are definitely a base feature. I was thinking that you could draw and I map buttons at the end of a path and make them links to the start of other paths.
This would be a way to split at the end of a path. If the links to other objects were drawn like a path two or more links would look like a split.

dose that make scene.

sorry didnt get time to do that pic

rylan replied on July 30, 2009 19:32 to the question "need to get menus back!" in Prezi:

click anywhere in your prezi and then hit the m key

m is for menu, it hides and shows the menu.

There are lots of little things like this that could frustrate a new user.

For me it took a while to figure out why prezi didnt see any of my videos
in the file loading dialogue, turns out .flv is the only supported type right now.
I suggest you read the manual, and I wish the manual had been easer to find on the prezi web site.

Heres the link http://prezi.com/manual/

rylan replied on July 30, 2009 19:17 to the idea "Navigation- Draw image maps over anything but use paths instead of links" in Prezi:

Tomorrow Ill draw up a pic of how it might look.

rylan replied on July 30, 2009 19:13 to the idea "Remote Presenting" in Prezi:

This is a great idea and the bandwidth to send just the presenters mouse and keyboard strokes would be tiny.

I plan to use prezi to build websites.
I would use this feature lots if i could broadcast a prezi while i was making it.
I could be on the phone with a client and make changes right in front of there eyes, and they would pick up on what I was doing fast so they could gain more creative control over there site! Very exiting

Come to think of it if you could see a list of the people tuned into your
prezi you could select one of them and pass the control over to anyone you want (with the option to take it back). That would be great for team design and team presentation.

rylan started following the idea "Remote Presenting" in Prezi.

rylan replied on July 30, 2009 17:48 to the idea "Having several possible pathes in a single presentation" in Prezi:

1. first I think there needs to be a way to select portions of the path.

I suggest that clicking once on a path section hilights it. Shift click to ad to the selectoin and double click to select it from start to end. Selecting path sections would be useful for other things to like making the path a curve or changing its speed.

Once you have that ability just use the delete key like you would for deleting other content.

2. I think you should be able to set any object (picture frame video...) as the default loading view. The option could be a circle that reads "Start" right beside the "up" and "down" circles in the place menu and would highlight when an object is selected.

I see 4 key advantages to this.

-Using a frame you can completley controll what the user sees first thing.

-Its more natural because where prezi loads to is location, rotation and scale, all of which an object shows visually. A path point just looks like a location.

-You can start any where on any path, or not start on a path at all.
Its dependent on if or where the object is on a path.

-Its simple because you can already select objects in place mode.
(Instead of making all the path points selecteble just to set one as
the start. Since all path points are on objects already it might be bloating to make the same thing selectable in two ways.

Thanks for being so involved in the community during development
that means allot to me.

rylan shared an idea in Prezi on July 30, 2009 06:51:

Embed Gigapan application

Gigapan is a cool web ap that allows the user to explore HUGE photos, because it has a Very similar inter face to Prezi's it would blend seamlessly if embeded in a prezi.

Of course it would be even better if you could just embed anything!

rylan replied on July 30, 2009 05:39 to the idea "Having several possible pathes in a single presentation" in Prezi:

I think that it would be simplest to just allow multiple paths but no spliting option.
So when you get to the end of one path you can just click the start of the next path even if there are many to chose from.

I can picture how flexible this would be visually, you could build hubs, lists, and intersections just by the way you place the first and last objects of each path.

rylan replied on July 30, 2009 04:55 to the idea "Path-Speed" in Prezi:

I can confirm that bezier curves would be better than free hand, in fact thats how I drew the curved path in the pic above. Free hand plus a real time auto smoothing would be simpler.

rylan replied on July 29, 2009 00:33 to the idea "Path-Speed" in Prezi:

It would be great if you could just freehand draw the path, that way you could do a controlled fly by.

To control the speed and height of the path how about a record button. When you click record your mouse movement would fly the camera. Up and down could be maped to the path height, left and right would be maped to path speed.
This would give lots of controlover the camera.

Also the hight and speed of the path could be graphed right along the path as seen in purple and brown.

rylan replied on July 28, 2009 22:19 to the idea "Embed Hyperlinks into Images" in Prezi:

I had a very similar idea look for "Navigation- Draw image maps over anything but use paths instead of links "
in the ideas list to check it out.

rylan started following the idea "Embed Hyperlinks into Images" in Prezi.