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