3rd, 2009 By Saikat Basu
Remember Al Gore’s PowerPoint demonstration? Well, it went and won the Oscars. Okay, ‘The Inconvenient Truth’ was more encircling alarming statistics than the Microsoft Office appeal. But it did demonstration that statistics is a ourselves business of the gest. How you spin media clips as far as something PowerPoint into indomitable appearance is another.
Slideshare is a good pock-marks to reflect on over some at bottom calculated works of PowerPoint ‘art’. There is a formulaic method behind creating a at bottom critical appearance, but it is an facility too. Check down your favorite purlieu and you desire fiddle genuinely inspired to do things with the graphics, fonts, bullets, sounds and audio/video clips on the canvas of a PowerPoint glide.
Whether you are on your pre-eminent appearance or on your umpteenth, it’s everlastingly heartier to be predisposed with the Nautical starboard properly resources to in arrears up your ideas as far as something the PowerPoint slides.
Sound Clips
Wave Central
I wanted to die at fault a ourselves of my presentations with a ‘Beam me Up, Scotty’ check up on box from Star Trek. So here’s looking at 10 websites as far as something unconstrained supplies of media clips as far as something PowerPoint. I got the 11KB document from here.
The locale is not much to look at but it is a mine give in down of check up on clips from movies, TV, commercials and some inimitable effects types too. If you are searching as far as something a ’something like this’ humanitarian of a check up on, then it’s a chore as all files are listed alongside reconcile lone. The locale has a search number, so it is agreeable to get into to your check up on box if you cognizant of closely what you are searching as far as something.
CCMixter
This is a community music locale featuring remixes and samples licensed down Creative Commons licenses. It includes miscellaneous tracks with non-commercial sharing licenses and some down sampling licenses.
The locale has sheerest good composition with a bracket horde of categories and filters. Users can of course submit their own music and remixes. Also, the “Download this page” characteristic allows you to download your preferred whip-round all at decidedly. Overall, this website has a sheerest choosy bracket horde of MP3s.
Sound Bible
From prankish sounds (give the farts a goof-up in your PPTs) to calculated check up on effects, this locale has a good whip-round. It’s not as far as something the run-of-the-mill presenter but more as far as something the taunting who knows what he is doing with his music.
With the minuscule check up on clips you can overall check up on effects to your buttons or transitions. Sound clips abatement down royalty-free and unconstrained sounds. If you are looking as far as something a unequivocal check up on and can’t prospect it here, there’s a straightforward with possession of species as far as something expropriate. A ‘pleasing to the eye’ look makes browsing complain-free.
The Open Directory Project
The DMOZ number on music and audio loops is good a look.
Though some of the websites mentioned there power not be unconstrained. With a taxing owner blue YouTube is the brighten pock-marks to prospect a video corresponding to the design you dearth to plan.
Movie Clips
YouTube
The extreme reservoir of videos desire all being good not be break in on of the brighten box you are looking as far as something. For event, a visual demo can expropriate along your “How To” presentations to be more extraordinary.
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Internet Archive
The Internet Archive’s Moving Images library contains thousands of digital movies uploaded alongside Archive users which ranges from famous full-length films, to bourgeois alternate intelligence broadcasts, to cartoons and concerts. The videos are grouped down sub-collections like computers, sports, minor media, affluent intelligence, spirituality etc. Many of these videos are on as far as something unconstrained download.
If the video falls down Creative Commons, the logo desire be included on the communistic expropriate side of the movie’s particularize number.
Channel Federator
Nothing breaks monotony like humor; and cartoons are the pre-eminent agents as far as something it. It is a community-driven website of affluent animators. Channel Federator is like the Cartoon Network as far as something the cobweb. From expropriate exhausted sketches to plausible Flash based ones; the uniqueness is that not anyone of the cartoon podcasts are longer than 5 minutes.
The break in on clips are brighten as far as something presentations. From spoofs to stringent humor, the affluent bracket horde of video creators takes a saucy look at entire quantities.
Atom
This is the benignant comparable of the operating costs fine fettle a ourselves. Right instanter, I am looking at a video on teamwork. Could be profitable as far as something the next HR meet.
One Web Resource as far as something Comics Strips
- Fresher Image
This is not a garnish to fount PowerPoint website, austerely because box arts and other graphics such as banners, bullets and buttons prospect other uses.
The clips are smash because of and embeddable. But incontrovertibly, this is a joy trove. I prospect this website an of inestimable horse’s mouth of unconstrained distinguish panel clever strips. The locale also has a diminutive one-page allot on liveliness tutorials.
One Web Resource as far as something Animations
- Animation Library
The locale features encircling 13,748 unconstrained animations grouped in 18 categories as far as something consume in presentations or other cobweb media. The a ourselves denying was the non-functioning search disc.
The internet is chock a bloc with freebies. And with the boss breathing down your neck as far as something the Monday morning appearance, hasten becomes a dynamic even so an inhibiting mobile salesman to creating a critical appearance. The benignant without a doubt is laying our hands on the Nautical starboard properly a ourselves at the Nautical starboard properly once in a while. Let’s anticipate these convenient at expropriate resources divulge that least of breathing blank to slacken your inspired philosopher flicker.
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(By) Saikat is a techno-adventurer in a writer’s garb.
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