Best Slide Software for Academics | Comparing Prezi PPT Canva Keynote & Google Slides
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What is the best slide software or slide app for academics, scientists, researchers, evaluators (and similar professionals) who need to present information and data? Click on "SHOW MORE" below for more info!
Which app will help you make really engaging presentations for your course lectures, conference presentations, job talks, and more? Watch the full video to find out!
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A lot of academics, scientists, evaluators, and researchers wonder about which presentation software or app will work best for #HigherEducation and #SciComm. Should you use Prezi, Canva, Keynote, PowerPoint, or Google Slides? I will review each of those slide applications and let you know which ONE of those I recommend you use, because it's the best for meeting our purposes as educators and presenters.
I will also let you know which 2 I recommend you do NOT use for professional presentations, and which 2 are kinda-sorta okay to use. By the end of the video, you'll not only know which app is the best for presenting with data...but you'll also SEE an example of a video made in the recommend app (i.e., this video was made using slide software I recommend). #PhDLife #GradSchool #ECRchat
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This video was made using: PowerPoint for Windows / Office 365 (January 2020)
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What is your experience with using the apps mentioned in this video for presentations? What do you think of my final recommendation -- shocked? surprised? thrilled? Comment below! 👇
I do almost everything on PPT. It's by far the best
This is the Legit explanation I am hearing so far. thanx
Also (I commented below) I was super disappointed browsing Google’s top links for online presentation software.
Thanks!! Much help!!
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Canva does have blank slides. You don't have to use any of their templates, you can create your own.
Exactly, this stupidity has just ended the video for me 😂😂😂😂😂😂
I found the presenter so utterly charismatic. Credible, authentic, logical, well-versed in the subject matter, excellent ‘explainer’ and humorous at times! Wishing you loads of positive wishes.
Thank you so much for your kind words!
You are a breath of fresh air. In an era where you can't trust any "reviews" because of social influencing, you seem to be an honest and genuine reviewer.
You just saved me from switching an important presentation to Prezi. Thank you.
Me too!
Me three
I am so glad I came across this video. I have always used PPT, and thought I should try something new for an upcoming presentation. Luckily you have saved me from wasting more of my time!
This is super helpful. Keynote has been my go-to simply because PPT has failed on me or quit abruptly a few times when in the middle of creating a presentation. So playing it safe with Keynote but glad it's a close runner up!
Thank you for watching!
I've had both PPT and keynote crash on me tons of times 😂 I've just accepted that's my fate when working on slides and obsessively save my file.
The transitions, animations etc are just AMAZING in keynote
I am indeed both shocked and relieved at the same time. Thank you for putting in the time for this and sharing a sincere recommendation based on years of work. I've now subscribed to your channel and will check out all your content. Thanks!
So glad PPT is your winner! I use it every day, and I love it! (I came here looking for something better, dreading the learning curve, and now I can relax and sleep again!)
I love it! Woohoo!
"PowerPoint was never the problem and another app is not the solution".
I loved this quote.
This is so far the best slide software comparison video. Thanks Echo
Oh wow that means a lot. Thank you so much!
What I love the most about Powerpoint is the ability to use Visual Basic for APPs to build interactive slides with data entry .
I'm an academic from Chile and now im using Prezi and yeah, the zoom effect its anoying, hahaha. I was searching another software and i really can't find any to make my presentations more dinamic. I'm gonna give powerpoint another opportunity after see your video, great channel by the way.
Thank you! I have a video about making non-linear presentations in powerpoint, which you may find helpful -- especially if you'd like to match some of the dynamic features of prezi.
@@MoreThanPowerpoint Link Please!
Your audio gear is excellent.
Thanks!
What a great video! Simple but spot on! I was looking for another app to make great slides ... mostly to impress people with something new but I realized that I had to pay a bunch of money for using prezi or visme. I tried google slides and I don’t use macs so... I completely agree with your point of view. Actually I’ll be checking your videos in order to improve my skill set on PowerPoint. Glad to see talented people doing an awesome delivery of their craft! Keep it up! ILC
Wow thank you so much -- I'm so glad you enjoyed the video and it helped you choose a slide software to use!
Actually the fact that Google Slides/Docs needs to be online is great as it has auto saves feature & instantly sync to Google Drive, so you don't have to worry about forgetting to save your presentation and pretty much almost accessible in every device & platform. Also, not forgetting it has collaboration feature
Hi! Great video and feel the same about templates. However, I want to add an update that Canva does have a blank template option now.
Thank you. I am relieved to find out that PPT is still the best app to use... I just need to learn more about how to make good use of it. Thank you Dr. Echo. Great video!
Thank you so much. I was planning to learn Prezi but I changed my plan now.
I've found using the free downloadable prezi video to be extremely useful for on line meetings, way better than screen share in zoom or Skype or webex etc.
Thanks, I loved the video. And pleasantly surprised that Powerpoint wins the day. I'm ready to step up
my Powerpoint prowess.
I think you‘ll recommend PowerPoint because its running on Windows too. But I do like Keynote (exspecially if you have an iPad) more.
I am relieved!!!! Team PPT!!!
Thanks for your dedication with this video!
Glad and excited i found you!! Thank you! Looking forward to going all out on power point!
I'm THRILLED that ppt is the winner!! So glad I came across this comparison video!!! I am going to take your free course and I'm now subscribed to your channel! I look forward to your expertise to help me learn how to create excellent presentations!!
Wonderful! I am so excited to hear that you are happy that PowerPoint was the winner! Thank you for enrolling in the free course I hope you enjoyed it!
Great explanation and breakdown of comparisons!
Hi Jared, Thank you for watching and for the positive comment -- I'm glad you found the comparisons heplful!
Thanks for uploading this. I look forward to watching more of your videos. Your key message seems to be "pedagogy comes before technology.^
Hello! Thanks for the great information! I am a complete newbie-- does PowerPoint have interactive features similar to the ones you mention Google Slides as having?
POWER POINT has all the features and more but unlike others you have to spent time and learn it. Its same for all Microsoft products if you learn to properly use it , Nothing could match what you can do with them.
Thanks a lot. I’m relieved PPT is the winner😊
Most welcome 😊
Very helpfull! Thank you!
Thank you for your time! You were very helpful and your speaking style is soothing and peaceful 🤍
Oh thank you!
Great video comparison, but would be curious to know if you used the last Keynote software update which seems to have been released recently, since your video release.And if so, would really like to know how it would really stand up against Powerpoint now.But again, very helpful informations here, thanks!
Thanks! Helpful detailed insight
Sounds good to me, I will try out your free online course.
Excelente video!! Te felicito!! desde Argentina
Wonderful presentation. Thank you!
Saved me from downloading a bunch of crap... I'll watch your stellar slides. Thank you! (ps, I already downloaded Prezi... so not setting it up. trash can it is...)
I just set up my basic account and will leave it right there. Lol
I have used prezi and it took me a long time, I did like it, the graphics features. but it is expensive.
Great video !
This was extremely helpful for some critical business decisions I had to make. Thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
not really surprised... One quick question, how did you incorporate your narration video while presenting your screen😊? Thanks
I wish I had watched this before blowing my cash on Prezi. It's taxing my patience to use. Thank you for the video, I'm sticking to PP
Better late than never!
In Google slides you can technically also make nonlinear presentations by creating links
Thank you! Videos this informative, concise and in depth are very rare. All the best.
So nice of you! Thank you!
Thanks for the information.
Thank you!!!
Any thoughts on collaboratively working on slide decks? We had two fails this past year. In my group, we used google slides and then the internet turned bad -- once us and every other presenter at the conference was using the internet. So our slide deck wouldn't load properly to present. This has convinced me to make sure I'm using something that can work offline.
Alternatively, a friend of mine had his team send him ppt slides, but then had problems with the translation when fonts and colors didn't show up attractively. He had to spend hours correcting the deck so it would work. He's convinced that next time, he just needs to present as PDF rather than PPT.
Yes exactly. I have a requirement that working and presenting my deck can happen offline, no internet required. That's so frustrating I'm sorry that happened to your team and everyone else!
PPT has new collaborative tools similar to track changes, so that's nice. But I haven't used them and can't speak to that.
Presenting with PDF means you can't use animations so I only bring a PDF version as a backup in case PPT is broken.
The messiness of sharing files and working in teams (something I've also encountered and is not fun!) is best fixed through better communication and standards. Make sure everyone is on the same version and create a style sheet so folks use universal fonts.
Thank you for watching and such a great comment by the way!
$0.02: latex with version control (git, Overleaf, both) makes collaborative editing routine---at the cost of having to know latex!
Thank’s for a great comparison!
I have one BIG problem with PTT: If you dubbel click a word to choose it and then try to continue to mark an other word it stops marking whole words. This works great in Word and Excel but not in PPT and has been a problem for years.
We’re annoying!
Thank you very useful :)
Glad it was helpful!
thank you very much for this info.
No problem, thanks for watching!
Awww… sorry to hear (and glad, in a way because it simply IS what I use) there‘s nothing better than PowerPoint.
Recently, for visualization purposes for my weaker students, I tried to do an animation to show what an average is.
It was supposed to show a bar chart, then draw a line at the value of the average of the 5 bars, then cut off what‘s above the average and distribute it in the gaps below the average line. (Was that description too confusing to illustrate what I tried?).
PowerPoint failed so horribly in this task (or I did - I dunno!) that I‘m looking for an alternative for simple math visualizations since then. Whenever you try to move an object, there‘s no way to tell where exactly the object will be placed at the end of your animation path. I couldn‘t tell if I had to end the animation arrow at the middle of the object, at the upper or the bottom end. Whatever I tried placed the object in an „off“ position at the end. Is there anybody out there who can recommend a graph tool for making such illustrations with a bit of movement - and without huge efforts?
Very surprised that PP was the winner. Thank you for all this information. I'm just wondering what tool you actually used to record the video.
Thanks, it was very engaging video and I liked that you clearly outlined the most important points.
Thank you for your comment!
this video is very well made. good points
Thank you for these great videos! I teach privately and am moving my course content online. I have been using PPT and creating videos in Camtasia. I saw in another video that you like DaVinci Resolve better, but I already bought Camtasia so I'm sticking with that for now. I don't fit into your target group, but I am finding your videos super helpful. I am thinking about taking your #StellarSlidesin5 course. Since I am not in science/data/research, do you think it would be applicable? I teaching writing. Again, thank you! Your advice is very practical, and I love that you practice (yes, I just finished that video!). I can't stand sitting through rambling, so thank you for sounding so natural by preparing so well! :-)
THANK YOU for validating the value in practicing! I really appreciate that! In all honestly, Final Cut is really our preferred video editor that costs money. I don't necessarily have anything against Camtasia ... it's just expensive and Resolve is free. If you're happy with Camtasia -- stick with it! #StellarSlidesin5 is free and one goal with it is to help people assess whether they like my training style and think it's a good fit. I say go for it, and if you don't like it then at least you know! It's honestly really hard to have one or two words to describe my audience. I work with academics, so if you're teaching adults then it sounds like a good fit to me! Even if you're an independent consultant/private teacher ... if you use slides to educate adults, you're most likely in my target audience.
What program do you use to record your slideshow/Screen while still having your video on the screen?
i am guessing OBS
I have to say that I hate, loathe and despise the .pptx file format.
Whenever I've had to use .pptx or .ppt files over the past ~15 years, they have not displayed correctly. For obvious reasons I avoid using them whenever possible, but I had two experiences in 2019 where event organizers claimed they couldn't handle pdf files and demanded pptx. In one case elements got moved around on top of each other, as usual. In the other case the organizers completely reformatted my slides themselves, to convert them to some organizational branding template that I saw for the first time when giving the presentation.
I use pdf files if at all possible---preferably produced using latex, though that has a very steep learning curve, so I don't recommend folks use it for slides unless they're familiar with it already.
I saw the earlier remark about the absence of animations in pdf files. I am perfectly happy to sacrifice this in order to get a portable document that will actually work reliably.
Sorry to hear your personal experience has been so negative. This hasn't been my experience at all. What you've described doesn't sound like a ppt problem, it's a problem with the event organizers having outdated or incorrect setup (and would happen with any slide software, not just PPT). I have seen that, and it's why I insist on using my own laptop and bring my own adapters. That has worked for me 99.9% of the time, and I am able use this excellent program and its features to create an excellent presentation.
If you like latex and presentation packages like these: "www.overleaf.com/gallery/tagged/presentation", an alternative could also be, for less experienced users, to use Markdown. e.g. www.deckset.com/ 👋
Hi, it would be nice to have an updated comparison there has been updates and it would be interesting to know your 2021 take.
As of April 2021, powerpoint is still the winner!
What about beamer? It gets the best math and formula typing support, and it outputs PDF, meaning its platform-free. It can be used seamlessly across Windows, MacOS, and Linux. The downside is the lacking of GUI, making it hard to do eyecatching animations and slide designs
Thank you very nice
Hi. How do you get Picture in Picture?
you are awesome
You are awesome! :D
Dear Dr. i stopped using prezi because i was no longer free
here's one thing Powerpoint can't do that I desparately need it to do that Keynote can do: Subsections
It seems Prezi has expanded their suite of tools since you made this video. The real “kiss of death,” IMO, for them is the fact that Prezi Video is stuck in the near-archaic Full HD (1920x1280) video resolution. Today’s inexpensive webcams use UHD (3840x2160) for capture and streaming. If someone can explain how they failed to innovate, I’d be interested to hear. Does PP have any video streaming/recording integration features like Prezi?
how about storyline?
I think you were gonna recommend Keynote
What I want is to show slides and videos in the order I pre select, and nothing else. I make the videos, 10 or 20 seconds or so in a video editor and I make the slides in photoshop, all to 1280 × 720 pixels. I don't want the viewer to resize them, rotate them, put writing on them, or anything else and I don't want anything else on screen. Microsoft Photos did that till they updated it and ruined my show that I am booked to present. Does anyone know any viewer that just shows the pictures and does nothing else?
Prezi and also some others have a fundamental problem, they are essentially handling a 3D problem (layered content) and represent it in 2D, so you end up picking and dragging, trying to click the item you intend to modify and waste a lot of time doing so. Not having a layer representation with WYSIWYG drag&drop capabilities like photoshop does is a 💋 of 💀 for me 😂
I totally know what you mean! I'm thankful ppt has the selection pane because it does come in handy for that reason!
@@MoreThanPowerpoint yes, after seeing your video I wast psyched to look at Powerpoint again after doing my last presentation with Prezi. Our company has an Office 365 license so I just tried PowerPoint 16.36 for Mac again and I was pleasantly surprised it solves all these problems with the selection pane (sadly they state on their welcome presentation "The Selection Pane is a subscription-only feature.") and it even has an explosion view via "Arrange > Reorder Objects" which is IMHO a great addition and the first implementation I've seen solving the 2D/3D problem in presentation software. Do you know of other presentation packages solving this problem?
I am quite surprised by your opinion on Canva since a lot of my friends use it for all sorts of stuff. Heck I made my first resume on Canva, but I am not entirely shocked by your problems with it, because as a cheapskate I totally get your frustration of important core features being behind a pay-wall.
Thank you for your great video, I used many more photos for video making app but now I’m using #Vimory for photo-to video and slideshow video making and really you believe me I’m a fan of #vimory ‘s attractive features.
I am a student and felt prezi should be lucrative enough to add advance animations to my presentation but i was unable to use prezi and i have to uninstall it and never recommended it to any one again
Thanks for sharing this info Haruna!
But PowerPoint is not free !!
I've used PowerPoint and Keynote for years. Keynote is the better option, in my opinion.
I think you're going to recommend...ppt
😉😉😉
I love PowerPoint!
As for prezi: even though I really like the zooming in and out of prezis, I totally hated the tool from the very first prezi I saw. I can‘t even tell why - but I never saw an actually „good“ prezi though I kept looking out for good ones. There was a time when I thought: All the other fools are only stupid and can’t use the tool correctly - but I failed as badly as they did. The zoom effect actually has potential for showing hidden details placed where they belong but - as I said… none of the prezis I saw did that in an attractive meaningful way.
The best one is latex using beamer class.
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Very helpful! Thank you so much for doing this video!
Okay so you read minds too. (end)
don't need a mac to use keynote, you just need an icloud account
i was a fool that i think to use canva for presentations
I hated how you spoke about Canva, I'm the biggest fan... I made my best presentations there...
Sorry dear... But if you create from scratch not templates, I mean pro level, you'd chose PPT trust me.
I do full fledged animations there. Whiteboard, 2d explainer, 3d animation name it
We're in 2023. Will you still stick with PPT?
You CAN make your own ... you just erase what's on the template! (Canva)
when u paid that much money for MS PPT, u would hope that it's good 😂
Ill be upset if you say go back to Powerpoint in the end
no surprises there... canva is simply not for presentations, prezi is interesting but nauseating at the same time.
Noobs.. LaTeX presentations for the win 🏆 😆
Powerpoint is complete garbage.
Why
Why am I finding hard to digest the fact that a PhD has time to make a 30-minute video about presentation tools? I normally expect this kind of folks to talk about about more "brainy" topics. Has something changed recently and I didn't get a memo?