Adobe Presenter 6

Presenter best practices

Adobe recommends these best practices for creating presentations:

  • Design your online presentation based on the bandwidth capabilities of your audience. If your audience has fast, broadband connections, you can create a graphic-intensive presentation that includes many animations. However, if your audience has slower connection speeds, you should consider using graphic images only (no animations) or no graphics at all, to ensure that your audience has a good viewing experience.

  • Consider creating a written script before recording audio for your presentation. Speaking into a microphone can be more difficult than giving a presentation to a live audience. To ensure a smooth delivery that covers all of your important points, consider creating a script for the entire presentation before recording audio for it. (If you have slide notes written in PowerPoint, you can easily import them into Presenter to use as a script or as the basis of a script.)

  • Add animations to enhance the overall presentation, if your audience has fast connections. Presenter supports PowerPoint animations so that you can create powerful, animated, multimedia presentations. Animations add impact to your message and improve the user’s overall viewing experience. (Animations must be set to On Click.)

  • Create presentations that are a manageable size. A single PowerPoint presentation typically corresponds to a single module or course. Usually a module contains 20‑40 slides and results in a 15‑45 minute sessions for users. If single PPT files become larger than 40 slides, the time it takes Presenter to convert the presentation to Flash format can increase by several minutes.

  • Preview the presentation by publishing it locally before publishing to a Connect Enterprise Server. This lets you view the converted presentation to be sure that it meets your requirements.

  • Create slide titles to give users easy access to any slide. Check that titles appear in the PowerPoint outline for all slides, including graphic-only slides, before publishing your presentation.