Smart Zooming
by Dávid Udvardy
Smart Zooming is a feature of Prezi. Smart Zooming works in Show mode, and helps you find your way around on the canvas. It has two uses, zoom on an object and smart zoom out.
Zoom on an object
When you click on an object in Show mode, Prezi finds the best possible view for that specific object: it will bring the object fully into view, center it, and rotate the view to match the rotation of the object. Watch it in action here, try to click on the different frames, texts and objects (start exploring the left circle):
Smart zoom out
Smart zoom out lets you zoom one step further away from your current view, if you have some nested frames. One step means the closest frame which is somewhat larger than the currently focused, and has some intersection (ie. crosses) with it. You can also try this in the prezi above, start in the right side circle.
The last step of smart zooming out is always the overview of you complete prezi. There is a shortcut for this view also press CTRL + SPACEBAR on your keyboard to get there. This could be handy at a lot of occasions, for example at the end of your presentation you may want to prepare for questions by showing an overview of your prezi to your audience.
Note that this feature doesn't need path at all, all the animation used for transitioning from one state to the other is a built in feature of Prezi. You will see, that with some experience, you will be able to use these features even during a live presentation, which will give you the advantage of moving away freely from your set route, and will let you react immediately to the audince's responses.
