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A good presentation is not a matter of software. You can make outstanding presentation without embedded videos and fancy transitions. And you can make them on PowerPoint, Keynotes, Libreoffice, or translucent sheets. Focus on a clear storyline, and key messages of each slide, keep it simple, use some visuals instead of a wall of text, use bullet-points wisely... People spend months on a project and then 1-2 days on the final presentation and wonder why the audience does not understand / is bored. Management consultants (whose main output are presentations) start working on the final deck from the first weeks / days of the project.


Should have clarified better in my original post. It is for accompanying video with documentation for my software. For those devs who prefer to watch a video over reading a wall of text (plenty have ADHD who prefer video over text).

The presentation is only for bullet points + embedded video (which will showcase the product + code) as well as highlighting specific parts of code where necessary. Micro transitions to keep them engaged.

Got some really good suggestions here. So will try them out and settle on one soon. Liked reveal-md/reveal.js so far as it fits my requirements quite well.




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