ActivePresenter 4.0.3 (2014.11.24)
Bugs Fixed:
- Default UI language incorrectly set to Vietnamese.
ActivePresenter 4.0.2 (2014.10.17)
Bugs Fixed:
- Audio loading issue in HTML5 simulation with Firefox 31 or newer.
- Incomplete message attached to Text Box is not shown if the submit key is pressed twice.
- Sequence Question doesn't work properly in Google Chrome.
ActivePresenter 4.0.1 (2014.07.21)
Bugs Fixed:
- Save project bug when editing videos in a certain scenario.
ActivePresenter 4.0 (2014.06.27)
New Features & Enhancements:
- Export To HTML5 Simulation.
- Support Drag-n-Drop:
- Add Drop Area interaction.
- Add Drag-n-Drop question.
- Add lines, arrows, and various shape types.
- Previewing multiple slides on Slide Canvas.
- Improve the capture frame rate (FPS) in full motion recording (about 25% faster).
- Add an option to show an object or play an audio/video without blocking subsequent actions.
- Find and replace text in slides objects.
- Add MKV container format (uses Flash Screen video codec, 16-bit PCM audio codec) when exporting to video.
- Add 16-bit PCM audio codec when capturing for highest audio quality.
- Add three levels to set the height of the audio waveform bar in Timeline.
- Allow setting Project Language.
- Support Right-To-Left languages:
- Support editing RTL languages in editor.
- Support RTL languages when exporting to Images, Videos and HTML5 Simulations.
- Enhance Quiz/Question editing functionalities:
- Add quick tools on the right side of selected question for quick editing.
- Change the way to interact with sub-objects in a question.
- Add an option to allow displaying sub-objects and objects started by event in Timeline.
- Allow exporting/importing the library and configurations of ActivePresenter to/from an external file.
- Allow capturing/editing/exporting the Active Window area. This feature is primary used in document outputs.
- Replace the slide backgrounds by capturing or using slide backgrounds from another project.
- Allow editing output texts (name of tools in toolbar, messages) in HTML5/Flash Simulation so user can create the content for any languages.
- The Slide Titles window displays slide names which use HTML tags in formatted text.
- Start editing annotation text by clicking the text area instead of double-clicking.
- Resources in the Image/Media library can be shown either in list items or thumbnails.
- Support recording audio from Speakers (System Audio) in the Audio page of the Properties dialog.
- Option to allow pasting HTML copied from other applications as plain text or HTML format.
- Add 14 common gesture effects.
- Option to generate the index page when exporting To HTML5/Flash Simulation or not.
- SCORM 2004 raw score is stored as percentage value if Pass Condition is in percentage. Otherwise, it is stored as an absolute value.
- The quality range of audio/video is changed to [1...100]. Either quality or bit rate option is available depends on selected codec.
Bugs Fixed:
- Text in shape is not saved when the editor lost the focus.
- When pasting an interaction from other slides, the shape in current slide may be disappeared because it is added to the actions list of interaction.
- SCORM 1.2 raw score is not scaled in range [1...100].
- Incorrect default file name and location in the Save As dialog.
Deprecated Features:
- AJAX Simulation is now superseded by the all new HTML5 Simulation and so got removed.
- Drop support for Microsoft Office 2000.
ActivePresenter 3.9.5 (2014.04.08)
Bugs Fixed:
- Audio and video are not synched properly if the audio sample rate in settings is not the same as sample rate of input device
- Noise in recorded audio if the computer is overloaded while recording
- Record System Audio checkbox is not enabled with some settings in Speaker in Windows Vista or later
ActivePresenter 3.9.4 (2014.02.28)
New Features & Enhancements:
- Support recording system sound and microphone (or another audio input device) simultaneously
- Redesign the New Capture Project dialog
- Remove audio input device setting in Capture Profile Editor
- Display confirmation message when user selects Discard a capture
- Change Stop Capture default hotkey to Ctrl+End
- Practice mode in AJAX/Flash Simulation can be exported separately from Tutorial mode
- Limit the size and position of inserted image/video inside the slide area
- Add Russian translation
- Improve French translation
Bugs Fixed:
- Crash error while editing or exporting if the project contains a video which is cut, split into many segments
- Pausing and Resuming a capture session sometimes makes the program frozen
- Rendering issue in editor when the screen resolution changed
- Blank video object in slide when user opens the project file using double-click in Windows Explorer
- Export to Flash Simulation doesn't use localized string in PO file
- Audio meter doesn't display correctly
- HTML code is displayed in some outputs which don't support Slide Name in HTML format
- AJAX Simulation with Silverlight Media Player cannot play video properly if the width or height of video is not divisible to 4
- Could not export the project which contains audio/video using PowerPoint 2013
- In some languages, the layout of New Project dialog is incorrect
- Incorrect text format bug in importing XLIFF if XLIFF file contains some empty elements
- File dialog appears in classic style when open a project
- Incorrect default language in Preferences dialog
- Incorrect state of closed caption icon in AJAX template Black and Silver
ActivePresenter 3.9.2 (2013.08.16)
Bugs Fixed:
- Crashed when encoding MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 videos at some specific resolutions
- XLIFF "x" tag uses incorrect attribute "restype"
- Capture Preset Sizes cannot be deleted
ActivePresenter 3.9.1 (2013.07.08)
Bugs Fixed:
- Video recording stopped at 2 GB boundary
- OGG audio not seakable in low bitrates
ActivePresenter 3.9.0 (2013.06.19)
New Features & Enhancements:
- Accessibility support in Ajax simulation
- Slides and slide objects support accessibility text that can be read aloud by screen readers when they appear
- Support keyboard shortcuts and navigation
- Visual focus indicator
- XLIFF Export/Import:
- Export texts to XLIFF 1.2 format for easy translation
- Import back translated texts in XLIFF format
- Visual click effect for cursor path
- Fade in, fade out effect for spotlight
- Better synchronization when editing audio/video
- French and Taiwanese are now supported
- Ajax Simulation:
- New templates: Black and Silver
- New Slide List design
- More options in Template Parameters dialog: show/hide slide group title, navigation in Practice mode...
- Option to use Silverlight for audio/video playback
- AutoFit browser window
- Flash Simulation:
- New templates: Black and Silver
Bugs Fixed:
- Licensing issue that does not recognize activation when running with normal privilege on some computers
- Various minor bugs fixed
Deprecated Features:
- Remove Aluminum template when exporting Ajax and Flash simulation
- Remove Close button in Ajax and Flash simulation
ActivePresenter 3.7.2 (2013.01.08)
Bugs Fixed:
- Fix hang up issue when reading MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 videos on some computers
ActivePresenter 3.7.1 (2012.12.24)
Bugs Fixed:
- Fix translation bug (always display Japanese) on the index page of exported Flash simulation
- Improve Chinese translation
ActivePresenter 3.7 (2012.12.18)
New Features & Enhancements
- Support Windows 8
- Support capturing Command Line Interface (CLI) Applications
- Lots of improvements for screenshot functionality:
- Capture full screen, application, region, windows (including child windows, menus), and accessible objects
- Additional processing when capturing top level window (application window or dialog)
- Capture shadow (Windows Vista or later)
- Process rounded corners
- Translucent/Opaque window
- Convenient window/object finder for selecting child window/object to capture
- Remove “Insert Screenshot” item from Slide menu
- Add new “Insert Screenshot” submenu to Annotation menu
- Change Screnshot tool in Insert toolbar: click dropdown button to select different capture type or change options, click tool icon to do the last capture
- Simplify and improve audio recording
- Allow exporting Image, Audio & Video objects to external files
- Resources panel:
- Allow exporting resource items (both physical & logical resources) to external files
- Change tab name: Image -> Images, Style -> Styles
- Toggle button to show/hide deprecated images in the Images tab
- Holding Alt while dragging Shape's boundary will preserve its anchor position
- Rename “Project Information” menu item and dialog title to "Project Properties" (in Project menu)
Bugs Fixed:
- Fix occasional issue with input devices/input sources when recording audio on some computers
- Occasional error when recording very long session video (>2GB video file size)
- ActivePresenter becomes less responsive when splitting videos to more than 10 parts
- Reddish color issue on some videos when exporting to Ajax, Flash and Powerpoint
- Double-click interactions aren’t properly recognized and processed in Ajax simulation
- Shape's anchor is changed when choosing “AutoFit Text” command on context menu
- Other minor bugs fixed
ActivePresenter 3.6 (2012.10.18)
New Features
- Capture:
- Support MPEG-1 & MPEG-2, the video lossy codecs for recording the long session and movie/streaming video
- Easily format and styling auto-generated annotation text using HTML tags
- Timeline:
- Copy, Cut, Delete, Split, Join audio/video and other objects directly on Timeline
- Instant editing without quality loss with logical media segmentation technique
- Dynamic narrating/dubbing while previewing for easy syncing between audio and other contents
- Render actual audio wave for easier and more accurate manipulation of audio
- Easily adjust volume for a certain range of audio/video
- More convenient editing with many new hotkeys and object timing display
- Support editing operations: Cut/Copy/Delete selected range, Crop to selected range, Split/Join audio/video objects, Split slide
- Canvas & Timeline Snapping
Enhancements:
- Capture:
- Remove the options to capture based on mouse or keyboard events. ActivePresenter will now always capture on any key/mouse events. The Annotation tab is also rearranged to allow selectively insertion of key/mouse interactions or annotations
- Option to copy settings from current capture profile when creating new capture profile
- Option to not use OLE Automation for getting more precise size and location of captured interactions when capturing Microsoft Office
- Timeline:
- Show/Hide, Lock/Unlock all objects at once
- Select contiguous objects by holding Shift + Mouse Click
- Scroll horizontally using Shift + Mouse wheel
- Changing start time and end time of a closed caption node does not affect next nodes in the same closed caption
- Resource Panels:
- Allow user to select all unused resources with one click
- Smoother scrolling while viewing image/video thumbnails
- Shrink project size
- Shrink function is now moved to Project menu for faster access
- Option to remove unused resources automatically
- Ajax Simulation:
- Reduce preloading time
- Reduce flickering when changing slides
- More options in Template Parameters dialog to set initial state of: closed captions, audio, show/hide slide list
- New index page design
- Flash Simulation:
- More options in Template Parameters dialog to set initial state of: closed captions, audio
- New index page design
- Improvement in the Audio Calibration dialog
- Canvas Preview: Reduce loading time and improve performance
- Allow displaying durations of slides in Slide Thumbnail panel
- Insert audio/video directly from file when using icons in Toolbar or using Menu
- Allow to edit hidden objects (in earlier versions, editing hidden or locked objects is not allowed. From version 3.6, ActivePresenter only prevents editing locked objects)
- Insert objects at editing timestamp by pasting clipboard or dropping external files (image, audio, video files)
- More convenient hotkeys for common operations in the Canvas
Bugs Fixed:
- Fix a bug in Manual Proxy Configuration dialog
- Various bugs fixed
Deprecated Features:
- Audio Editor/Splitter dialog
- Video Splitter dialog
ActivePresenter 3.5 (2012.06.07)
New Features & Enhancements:
- Capture:
- Onscreen feedback/status: elapsed time, frames per second, input audio signal meter, quick buttons…
- Support capturing with keyboards which use dead keys for entering diacritics like German, French, Spanish, Latvian...
- Obfuscation/Blur tool in Image Editor: easily erase sensitive information in captured images
- Transition Effects for Objects: Entry-Exit transitions: Fade, Fly, Peek, Wipe
- Slide Transition Effects: Fade, Fly, Wipe
- Shadow Effect: allow objects to have 3D shadow effect
- Video Freeze-Frame: Allow user to temporarily pause a video for a specified duration so additional explanations/annotations can be added to explain the video in more details
- Spell Checker: check spelling while editing shapes and closed captions: Support multiple languages: English (US), English (UK), English (Australia), German, Spanish, Czech, Polish and Vietnamese
- Text To Speech: Convert text to speech using Microsoft SAPI, user can use any SAPI TTS engine installed on their computer to convert text to speech easily
- Action Feedback Control: displays detail information about action being performed (clicking, typing)
- Audio calibration before recording
- Editor:
- Save slide as image at current timestamp
- Re-arrange the menu system for quick and easy access
- Save panel position customization across all projects
- Change “Library” panel to “Resources” panel; Change the term “Template” to “Library”
- Improve Video/FlashVideo Export:
- Generate separate subtitle file (using SubRip SRT format: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SubRip) for both Video and FlashVideo export
- Improve Player for Ajax & Flash:
- Customizable player skin
- Make language selection when exporting Ajax like when exporting Flash
- Various audio/video quality improvements
- New Language: Polish
Bugs Fixed:
- Password field not working when export to Video/FlashVideo
- Various bugs fixed
ActivePresenter 3.2 (2012.03.01)
New Features & Enhancements:
- New Zoom-n-Pan mechanism which supports multiple Zoom-n-Pans in one slide
- Allow slide objects to have attached audio
- Support Click Sound for cursor path and interaction objects
- Insert object at specified timestamp
- Show object preview when selecting Show/Hide Object in Event Editor
- Display slide name in "Go To Slide" dialog
- Enable dragging from Library to Canvas to create slide object:
- Dragging image, audio, video
- Dragging style to create shape
- Enable dragging image, audio, video files from computer to canvas
- Preview a range in Timeline: User can select a range in Timeline to preview in a loop
- Add a “Zoom all” button to Timeline which will automatically adjust zoom factor to fit the longest bar in the available width
- Add edit Gradient button to Properties panel for easy editing the gradient stops
- Small icons below the slide thumbnails to allow user to know at a glance which types of objects (audio, video, cursor and question) are there in the slide
- Improve cursor path editing with curve or straight cursor path
- Change slide by clicking in timeline (when showing all slides)
- Change "Balloon" to "Shape"
Bugs Fixed:
- Sequence question: can not drag&drop answers on IE 9
- No toolbars displayed when creating new blank project
- Open projects created with older versions: text of shapes are overflowed
- Some other minor bugs
ActivePresenter 3.1 (2012.01.12)
New Features & Enhancements:
- Add context toolbars for faster and easier editing
- Add 'preserve aspect ratio' option for image and video
- Add 'play when waiting for user input' and 'loop' option for audio and video
- Show more details when hovering mouse over objects in editor
- Object Style:
- Style Preview when editing
- Clone style from existing one
- Create new style from selected object
- Update object to style
- Text Editing:
- New hotkeys: increase/decrease font size
- Auto Fit to Text: Auto expand/reduce object size once editing completes to fit to new text
- Incremental search for font name in font selection box
- Quiz:
- Make editing easier (add/edit answer, button, message) using context toolbar
- Object Event:
- Enable showing image by event
- Add 'End Presentation' action
- Add new action after, not previous selected action
- Title header theme for XP
- Timeline:
- Preserve focused point (keep current view) when zooming
- Ruler scale is now multiple of 10
- Audio Editor:
- Preserve focused point (keep current view) when zooming
- Ruler scale is now multiple of 10
- Allow to seek when playing/pausing
- Properties Grid:
- Auto save property value when user clicks outside properties panel
- Ajax, Flash Simulation:
- Better synchronization among cursor path, audio, video, zoomed and normal objects
- Flash: Add slide list window
- Capture/Record:
- Auto pan is now off by default
- Allow to add hint messages when recording
- Allow to select captured application when inserting new slide by capture
- Lower default video frame rate for FMR in Smart Capture to 15 fps -> Smaller video size, don't need smooth transition
- Image Editor:
- Allow to copy and paste image as image object into slide
- Allow to select rectangle using mouse dragging from bottom to top
Bugs Fixed:
- HTML editing issue: crash error when editing balloon's text on systems with RoboForm installed
- Crash error when saving capture profile on systems with no audio input device
ActivePresenter 3.0.1 (2011.11.14)
Bugs Fixed:
- Capturing causes system to lag/freeze when press and hold down multiple keys on 64bit systems.
- Ajax typing simulation:
- Error not typing in IE
- Support pause, resume, seek
ActivePresenter 3.0.0 (2011.10.14)
New Features:
- Support 64-bit OS
- Full motion recording: Allow user to record full motion video
- Allow user to record audio while capturing
- Automatically set slide duration based on user's recording time
- Support multiple monitors: Allow user to capture on multiple monitors
- Auto panning capture area: Allow capture area to be dynamically moved around with mouse cursor while capturing
- Allow user to record mouse movement while capturing
- Allow user to customize the text which is inserted automatically for annotations when capturing
- Support capture profile: User can easily manage capture settings using separate profiles
- Quiz functionality: Insert/edit quiz.
- Support 7 question types:
- True/False
- Multiple Choice
- Multiple Response
- Essay
- Fill in Blank
- Fill in Multiple Blank
- Sequence
- Allow user to insert video to slides
- Slide preview: Allow user to instantly preview slides
- Allow user to define ultra flexible responses for interactions
- Support 6 event types:
- On Correct: response when user action is correct
- On Incorrect: response when user action is incorrect
- On Incomplete: response when user action is not yet complete
- On Time out: response when the time limit for interaction is expired
- On Roll over: response when user moves mouse over the interaction
- On Roll out: response when users moves mouse out of the interaction
- In-place editor for balloons/notes
- Support object styles: Users can define styles and reuse for multiple objects.
- Support 3 types of style:
- Fill style: Style used to fill object shapes
- Line style: Style used to draw object borders
- Text style: Style used to draw object text
- Allow user to change style of multiple objects at once
- Support Zoom-n-Pan: Allow user to zoom and pan a specific area
- Support flexible closed captions
- Support customizable cursor highlight
- Support flexible cursor path
- Automatically scroll to first action on a slide
- Export to WebM video format
Enhancements:
- Lots of minor improvements and bugs fixed
Deprecated Features:
- Remove support for Internet Explorer 6.0
- Remove support for Windows 2000