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However, if your slides are in the 4×3 aspect ratio (as we recommend if you feature webcam video) the menu can be placed overtop of the letterboxed black bars on either side of your slides. This essentially requires the Ink2Go menu to always be on the screen (which I find slightly less professional).

So if you want to annotate every single slide differently, you’ll need to get in the habit of first clicking erase and then advancing the slide.

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One of the benefits of using the Cintiq is that we can stack shortcuts on a single hotkey, like “erase annotations” and “advance slide.” Due to the way these software interact, however, the only way to erase slides in presentation mode is by manually clicking the erase button on Ink2Go’s overlay menu. For one, when your slides are in presentation mode, the software’s shortcuts are overridden by Powerpoint/Keynote’s. Ink2Go is a $20 software that adds some more functionality but is not quite as seamless. The pen thickness is also not customizable. Another downside is changing the pen color requires clicking into a pop-up menu and manually selecting one of nine default colors. It is built-in to the newest version of Powerpoint so it is essentially free if you’re already using that software, though this of course means you can’t use the tool to annotate over Keynote or anything else. When you advance to the next slide, your annotations are cleared and you’ll need to reactivate the pen again to do any annotations. Simply place your slideshow in presentation mode, hit Command + P and you’re good to go.

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These software were all tested on Macbook Pro running Sierra using a Wacom Cintiq 13HD as the presentation/annotation screen.įor our purposes, Powerpoint is the easiest one to recommend.

We’ve found three so far that come close: Powerpoint, Ink2Go, and Deskscribble. That software, however, is no longer supported and we’ve been looking for something that matches its flexibility and ease of use. The free pen tool Omnidazzle wasn’t perfect, but it was flexible enough for what we needed to do.

When we first started creating content for online courses, annotated slides (like this one) were the most common type of video we produced.

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