hello everyone welcome back to the key productive youtube channel today's video we're going to do a
bit of a deep dive into pitch sharing a little bit more about how to use it one of the team was able
to reach out and show me through the application which is absolutely fantastic and i've got a bit
of a better knowledge about how to use it so hopefully i can share that with you folks today
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okie dokie as you can see here this is the pitch mac application it works on web and windows as
well with an ios application on horizon and as you can see here um you can create a new workspace
for different um teams you may be working with but this is the dashboard you can create presentations
from here and you can start folders you can also see the ones that have been shared with you and
also any workspace folders maybe per department for you and your team now this is primarily
a team focused presentation tool however i do see a lot of individuals using it seeing as it's
probably a little bit sort of more interactive more playful easier to create presentations
than say google slides um so as you can imagine something that's been very interesting to a lot
of folk now the templates are pretty decent um obviously this has been around for more than a
year so they've probably perfected this a lot more than just stay having this on launch so these are
ones that other people created but they're really attractive you can preview them here if you want
to um sort of like as if you were sort of delving into um before you so to start out with a notion
template for example but in this case i'm going to start with the light one um the reason is just so
that i can demonstrate some of the basic features when you start a presentation um i was actually
it was pretty impressed with this ability so obviously it's blank on this page but if you
maximize you can either add all 29 slides as a demonstration or you can add individual ones
so for example if i was like okay um let's start out with this one as the start of the presentation
and then you know make a point about this one we'll talk about keep productive in this case
and maybe a timeline so you're able to sort of cherry pick which ones you like
i really like that and if you wanted to pop back you didn't necessarily have to leave
go back in um which i can imagine for a lot of people it's a little bit painful to do um and as
you can see that you're sort of getting started already which is good you can sort of fill in
the blanks now obviously for individuals using it um you could create something for yourself but um
there's one feature that a lot of people are sort of looking very attractive pictures looking very
attractive for so if you and your team work to want to work together on a powerpoint in live this
is a beta feature you can go to the live button connect your camera so in this case we might go
here hello um and i can connect my headphones and i could start and a bubble would appear for me
and as you can see here as i'm moving my mouse around i appear on the screen which is pretty cool
um this can happen with multiple people which is nice so they'll obviously indicate how many people
are here you can shut off the camera if you want you can pause the microphone but it's nice to be
able to have that sort of level of interactivity as you're working on a presentation now this isn't
the only sort of workflow features per se uh there are ones here um when it comes to the workflow
so for example like traditionally when you're setting up slides maybe you're working on your
own or with the team you may be assigned them so you can first of all assign people
a specific slide and as you can see on the top left i like this sort of me following it around
you can see naturally the assigned person so if you've got lots of people and you can assign like
this needs to be done you can go to the next one you can go actually this is in progress
because i'm doing it now and finally you could be like oh this looks perfect it's going to be done
so you can sort of give statuses to the the different um stages that you're in which is
quite nice i quite like this and also commenting abilities very nice and the one thing i think sort
of stands out in this tool is that google slides is relatively attractive but this is really clean
because everything's tucked away up here in terms of the multimedia we'll come to that the left-hand
side really neat and the bottom again neat um it pops open when you need it you can have reactions
whilst you're in a sort of conversation as well so you can be like i love this page this is stunning
and you can change your reaction based on the updates and you can even leave presentation notes
that are really subtle so that's the live abilities you can leave very much like a
zoom conversation or zoom chat so i'm not sure what to start with next but what i'm going to do
is demonstrate some of the design abilities so i went ahead and created what's called a workspace
style and i was pretty impressed with this when they showed me so basically you can create a new
style and this page pops out so every time you do a presentation if you wanted to set
a style for your brand your company then you can basically save all the time doing it 100 times so
you could even send an invite to your design team to do all the legwork but you can add in uh
you can upload your own fonts you can upload the exact hex codes to this so that it fits in i tried
to get as close as key productive as possible but you can literally change everything to the charts
and the font in the charts very interesting so i made a quick one uh when i was on here and i
actually did a very good demonstration of it so obviously that's the design you can um obviously
when you go out of this and you go into a new presentation that will appear as an option so
you can go ahead and duplicate it you can go ahead and make as many presentation styles as you like
but that's something i really liked because if i were to go on this page and be like right
i want this brand style then i could do that pretty easily and uh that's something that you
don't well it is available through some stuff but what i quite like about it is how fast it
um it did it so that's the design aspect of it there's more obviously tucked away in that but
probably best talked about in a deeper dive or in a deeper section you can add text up here um very
similar to how you would add text on any editing tool or any filing tool you've got unsplash
giphy and icon8 and i find that really great because um what's particularly useful is when
you're doing funny presentations you want to add a gif of something then you can quickly add it there
you can even add icons as well which i really like um so for example if you want to give a sort of
update about something um you can even modify it in much more detail like adding and changing
the blurs the rounded corners etc much like you would with annotation um and editing in canva
so here you can get some really basic sort of um essential sort of lines and
buttons and things like that you can see here there's a few uh sort of stickers that you can
jump in and stick in which is quite nice so there's some really cool little sort
of animations you can add images as well so for example if i wanted to drag an image in i could
do so if i wanted to drag the company logo in i could move this to the center let's get it perfect
right decent and you can also add in charts if you want to so you can import that through google
sheets or google analytics which is quite cool so once you connect the google analytics account that
means you could for example bring in a live chart from one of your next meetings you could create
a line graph as well i thought the line graph was really easy to create you can import from a csv or
a google sheet as well you can also insert table much like you would in other applications up to 10
points and also paste in a youtube video a vimeo or a loom presentation so when it comes to the
quick access side of stuff you press command k um this is sort of like super human a bit like
um other apps that like use keyboard commands you can see here that you can do quick things
like assign to set slide status add a background open a certain presentation add a shape and once
you learn all of them you can quickly get access to them there you can also share a presentation
as well so you can copy access to one and invite other people to it and embed ability
and public access embed ability is an upgrade feature i'll talk about the pricing in a bit
so up here you can actually present it and view the overall presentation and as you can see down
here you can modify all of the template stuff quite easily so i showed you around pretty much
so i showed you around pretty much everything um as you can imagine it's much more designed
towards teams but a really attractive application at that um i think i showed you around most of
it but here's more about the pricing so it in the uk at least is eight pound per user per month and
that's the yearly pricing with 20 off and that gives you um some bonus access to for example
workplace roles live video collaboration which you showed you unbranded beta exports and also
unlimited file upload and a few more things there um so that's um i guess like i guess if you're
doing pretty regular presentations as a team it's something that's pretty decent in terms of pricing
and also if you're a starter you pretty much just get unlimited presentations users guests and
also custom templates as well as the live video collaboration but i can imagine they'll probably
remove that from the starter plan just because um it is much more of a sort of pro experience
using that so one of the things i was pretty impressed with over the last year that they've
been out in sort of private beta they've actually updated a lot of stuff inside of the experience so
it looks like they almost update everything at least every two weeks
pretty consistently uh obviously they were probably designing from scratch you know
like the whole development stage but at least they were getting updates out pretty regularly
and obviously if you don't know the company behind it is uh christian rapper who started it um is uh
the vandalist founder so at least you know that his uh sort of quality and focus on design will
be present here so folks that was pitch as i said i'm pretty impressed with it as a presentation
application seems like a really good option i'm probably going to be using this as my go-to
one for presentations here on keep productive if i do say a demonstration or a talk a live stream
things like that because i think it's pretty easy to use and i like the way that you can collaborate
on it i probably won't use it in a team aspect but it's definitely gained my attention as probably my
go-to presentation tool so before i go folks i just want to say a big thank you to verina
from pitch who showed me around she took a bit of a timeout which i appreciate to go and be
around this application help me understand it a bit further and obviously when i reach out
to teams to get a bit more assistance that was really helpful so thank you so folks thank you
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