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Slide Focus Presenter

When to use

• You're recording a slide-heavy lesson and the usual choice — full-screen slides with no face, or tiny slides beside a talking head — both feel wrong
• Your slide has one chart or diagram that matters and the rest is context; you want the audience's eye on that one region while you talk about it
• You're presenting remotely and the audience keeps asking "which number are you talking about?" because your cursor is the only pointer
• Your deck is dense (a dashboard screenshot, a comparison table) and you need to walk viewers through it region by region without rebuilding the deck
• You want a consistent presenter-plus-slide layout across a course so viewers always know where to look

Workflow

1. Mark the focus region (input: slide + script → output: one focus rectangle per beat)
   For each spoken beat, draw exactly one rectangle around the region you're discussing — one chart, one table row group, one diagram quadrant. The rectangle should cover 15–40% of the slide: smaller and the audience can't read it, larger and the "focus" is meaningless. If a beat genuinely needs two regions, split it into two beats. Write the focus rectangles into the script as stage directions ("[focus: Q3 bar]") so the edit follows the words instead of guessing.
2. Dim everything else (input: focus rectangle → output: 0.0–0.5s dim animation)
   Everything outside the focus region dims to 35–45% brightness over 0.4s with an ease-out curve, while the focus region stays at full brightness with a 2 px silver border that fades in over the same 0.4s. The dim is a scrim, not a blur — blur makes viewers think the video broke. Keep slide text outside the focus region still faintly readable: the dim should say "not now," not "deleted." When the beat ends, the dim lifts over 0.3s before the next focus region lands — never snap directly from one focus to another, or the eye gets whiplash.
3. Place the presenter (input: slide layout + focus region → output: presenter position per beat)
   The presenter's video sits in a rounded-corner box (16:9 or 4:3, ~22–28% of frame width) in the corner farthest from the current focus region — focus top-left means presenter bottom-right. The presenter box never overlaps the focus region, and never covers slide text that the script references. Add a 2 px border and a soft drop shadow so the box reads as a layer above the slide, not a hole in it. If the focus region moves to the presenter's corner, the presenter box glides to the opposite corner over 0.5s — one smooth move, announced by the dim lifting first so the move doesn't fight the focus change.

Template preview

Slide Focus Presenter — Focus Map Template

One row per spoken beat. Fill in the focus map before editing.

Video: {title} | Slide deck: {file}

Presenter box size: {22–28% of frame width} | Border: {2 px + soft shadow} | Corners: {rounded}

Focus map

Dim settings

Outside focus: {35–45% brightness} | Dim in: {0.4s ease-out} | Dim lift: {0.3s} Focus border: {2 px silver, fade in 0.4s} Dim style: {scrim — never blur}

Slide-change choreography (in this order)

1. Presenter box moves to new corner (if needed): {0.5s glide}
2. New slide fades in under dim: {0.3s}
3. First focus region lands: {after fade}

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