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ActivePresenter 3.0 Release Notes

by | Oct 14, 2011

Last Updated On: August 30, 2012

New features:

Capture:

  • 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
  • Capture profile: User can easily manage capture settings using separate profiles

Question (Quiz functionality):

  • Support 7 question types:
    • True/False
    • Multiple Choice
    • Multiple Response
    • Essay
    • Fill in Blank
    • Fill in Multiple Blank
    • Sequence
  • Define flexible responses, learner’s score… easily thanks to Event – Action mechanism
  • Track learner’s result with email/http report or LMS
  • Graded quiz or survey

Cursor Path:

  • Customizable cursor shape, cursor highlight, motion path, moving speed
  • Each cursor path supports multiple moving steps with their own cursor shape, path, speed

Closed Caption:

  • Flexible caption text as video subtitle
  • Style-able caption text and caption background

Zoom-n-Pan:

  • Zoom in and pan a specific area
  • Customizable scale and speed 

Video:

  • Allow user to insert video to slides (play, seek,…)
  • Allow splitting a video to multiple ones 

Mouse Hover:

  • Response when user moves the mouse over/out the object
  • Define flexible responses easily thanks to Event – Action mechanism

Object Styling:

  • Users can define styles and reuse for multiple objects
  • Support 3 types of style
    • Fill style: Style used to fill object shapes (there are four fill styles: none, solid, gradient, image)
    • Line style: Style used to draw object borders
    • Text style: Style used to draw object text
  • Allow user to change style of multiple objects in a slide at once
  • Batch base style changing for all objects in project. 

Event – Action mechanism:

  • Allow user to define ultra flexible responses for question and interactions (Mouse Click, Key Stroke, Text Box, Mouse Hover, Button)
  • New 7 event types (in addition to three types in previous release: mouse click, key press, text) to conveniently add more interactivity to your screencasts and elearning courses
    • On Correct: response when learner’s answer is correct
    • On Incorrect: response when learner’s answer is incorrect
    • On Incomplete: response when learner’s answer is not yet complete
    • On Complete: response when learner completes the survey
    • On Time out: response when the time limit for interaction is expired
    • On Roll over: response when learner moves mouse over the interaction
    • On Roll out: response when learner moves mouse out of the interaction
  • New actions: Pause presentation, Continue presentation, Show object, Hide object…
  • Score by answer: learner score can be defined based on each his/her answer
  • Action by answer: response actions can be defined based on each learner’s answer
  • Multiple response actions for each event, each learner’s answer
  • Allow pausing presentation to wait for learner answer
  • Time limit for each question or interaction

Export:

  • Export to WebM video format
  • Automatically scroll to first action on a slide (AJAX, Flash Simulation)
  • Fully support new kinds of objects

Others:

  • Slide preview: Allow user to instantly preview slides
  • Allow locking or hiding objects in editor
  • In-place editor for balloons/notes
  • Fit to text vertically
  • Each project has its own settings
  • 12 types of object’s shape with flexible hotspots
  • Allow changing shape of existing object but remaining other properties
  • Allow showing object over multiple slides
  • Rename "Action" (Mouse, Keyboard, and TextEdit) objects to "Interaction" (Mouse Click, KeyStroke, and TextBox)
  • Storing resource has big data size in external file

Enhancements:

Canvas:

  • Easier changing size and position of object that laid behind other one. Allow resizing multiple objects.
  • Resizing objects (especially image) and zooming are smoother
  • Object now can be dragged outside the canvas, the outside area will not be displayed in exported outputs
  • Slide Background Image now can change the size

Timeline:

  • Name, visibility, lock state of object also displayed on timeline. The visibility and lock state can be changed easily from timeline by clicking correspondent icon
  • Add play, stop preview, zooming buttons on timeline
  • More flexible Timeline zooming with many different scales by holding Ctrl button and wheeling the mouse (old version has only 5 scales)
  • Allow viewing all slides in project in timline at the same time

Slides Window:

  • Slides window now uses  incremental update and don’t need waiting to update slide thumbnails anymore
  • Allow cutting, pasting, deleting slides from main menu and toolbar when Slides Window is focused

Library:

  • Library is now updated automatically instead of manual reloading when new resources added
  • Resources in library are displayed in thumbnails for picking up easily
  • More compact and clearer Library’s toolbar
  • Allow selecting which types of resource are shown in library from it’s toolbar
  • Allow importing many resources at once

Interaction (new name of Action):

  • Allow user to set lifetime (based on start time and duration) for interaction object

Audio Editor:

  • Better presentation of audio samples
  • Better ruler of audio timeline and zooming
  • Allow selecting audio device and input source for recording in audio editor

Audio Properties Dialog:

  • Using unique panel for selecting, playing, recording audio to avoid changing tab multiple times

Image Properties Dialog:

  • Image now can have fill and line style
  • Add "Hue" property.

Export Video, Flash Video:

  • Export time reduced significantly
  • Allow exporting multiple medias (audio/video) which their lifetimes overlap each other
  • Easier selecting output video format from export dialog
  • Remove mouse options when exporting to video because already having cursor path
  • Better synching between audio and object displaying

Export Word, PowerPoint, Excel:

  • Export Excel to native MS Office’s object
  • Export to native MS Office’s object produces better result
  • Export to Office Open XML document (*.docx, *.pptx, *.xlsx)

Export AJAX, Flash:

  • Add changing volume on toolbar
  • Audio is played without showing player in AJAX
  • Add HTML file for 4 modes (Demonstration, Tutorial, Practice, Test) for easily embedding to Webpage or uploading to LMS
  • Support seeking to any position in Demonstration and Tutorial modes
  • Support restore functionalities in SCORM

Import PowerPoint:

  • Loading PowerPoint presentation is faster.
  • Import PowerPoint produces better result by using new shape types of objects and styles

Others:

  • Better look and feel (appearance)
  • Project loading time reduced greatly
  • Project corruption probability is reduced
  • Lots of minor improvements and bugs fixed

Deprecated Features:

  • Remove support for Internet Explorer 6.0
  • Remove independent hint object (now changed to mouse hover with attached hint message)
  • Remove converting between mp3, ogg, wma
  • Remove support for Windows 2000