PresentationPro Motion Templates Volume 1
Reviewed: Geetesh Bajaj
Date Created: August 26th 2009
Last Updated: August 26th 2009
Introduction
About Motion Templates
Using Motion Templates
Pricing and Support
Conclusion
Introduction
PowerPoint has been around for nearly two and a half decades now, and quite possibly many viewers are tired of seeing the same PowerPoint designs. Styles come and go with unfailing regularity, and there's always the human urge to experiment and play with something different. This human urge extends to PowerPoint as well -- and PowerPoint designers are always on the look out for something more contemporary.
Enter Motion Templates from PresentationPro, a set of designs that include animated elements that attract attention while still being subtle enough to not make the presentations loud. How can these be used, and what is our opinion -- read more to learn.
About Motion Templates
Motion Templates is from PresentationPro, an Atlanta, USA based company that creates a bunch of PowerPoint related content stuff -- from templates to 3D graphics and photographs to rich media converters. Learn more about their products from their site...
Motion Templates - Volume 1 is a collection of 100 PowerPoint templates including 50 animated (and 50 coordinated static designs). Each animated and static design has dark and light variations. The volume also include PowerPoint 97-2003 (.PPT) format and PowerPoint 2007 (.PPTX) format presentation files.
My contact at PresentationPro for this review was Gary White - thank you, Gary.
Using Motion Templates
Follow these steps to use Motion Templates:
Open a new presentation in PowerPoint, browse and apply the template to your presentation. Make a note of the name of the template you applied. After you save your presentation, you will need to copy the movie files that correspond to that template to the same folder you just saved your presentation. These movie files are in WMV format and can be found within the same folder as the templates themselves.
See this sample presentation we created with the Motion Templates and uploaded to the YouTube site:
Click above to view on YouTube
Click above to view on YouTube
Pricing and Support
Motion Templates Volume 1 costs $79.
Support is through e-mail, an online FAQ, and through live chat.
Conclusion
If you want to add some pizzazz to your PowerPoint presentations by adding some subtle movement, then you can easily attain that objective by getting these Motion Templates from PresentationPro -- the quality is great too, and the designs have been well created.
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