While there are many new advantages and features in Prezi Next such as topics and covers, then some people just want to create a classical Prezi by zooming into different areas and flying around the canvas. Fortunately you can also still do all that with Prezi Next.
In Prezi Classic you needed to add “Slides” to zoom anywhere you wanted, and then you could simply rearrange the slide order and create the path you needed. Well actually things have not changed much in Prezi Next. You can create that same effect in Prezi Next, the only difference is, that in Prezi Next these kinds of zooms are not considered slides but zoom areas. The idea behind zoom areas is, that you can highlight specific content inside your topics. Fortunately you can take use of that effect very easily and not add any topics. You can create your entire presentation with only zoom areas or by creating a shape, for example a rectangle (or any object text or image) and then using the Animations menu to zoom onto that object. You can rearrange the order of these zooms from the animations menu.
View an example Prezi Next below. The entire presentation was made without adding topics (no stack or planet layouts) but only zooming into shapes that were made invisible, and in this way it behaves like a classical Prezi.
[hr]The Downsides?
While this a great method for simulating a Classic Prezi presentation, then there are also a few downsides.
- Prezi doesn’t consider these zooms as separate slides, so your left sidebar will be blank in the edit mode and it will be difficult to organize your content if the Prezi gets too large.
- If you would also like to add topics into your Prezi later, then the animations might get messed up.
- Prezi Next is kind of slow when zooming into PDF vector files, and it takes about a second before a deep zoom image becomes sharp (fortunately this does not happen when zooming into text or regular pictures.)