Presio updates - Support for Microsoft Producer
Well, there have been 2 more releases of Presio since my last post, and I’m very pleased with the rate of new updates we’ve been able to achieve. One new feature I wanted to highlight with the latest release is Presio’s new “Microsoft Producer Import Wizard”.
I’ve long thought that Microsoft’s move to no longer support and/or update Microsoft Producer (last release was 2003) meant there was some opportunity for an alternative rich media presentation tool. Well, with the latest release of Presio I hope we’ve made the migration from Producer a bit easier.
We’ve a taken a simple, but I believe useful approach towards allowing existing Microsoft Producer users a way to import their projects and presentations into Presio. Essentially, Presio just needs 2 files - the original PowerPoint presentation used to create a Producer project, and a published Windows Media file.
Now, for very complex Producer projects (multiple PowerPoint files mixed with images) or where there were custom template changes, the Import Wizard will most likely not work. But, for a majority of the cases this will certainly automate the process. Running a Producer project through this tool converts it into a Presio project file. This allows users to take advantage of some of Presio’s benefits (not available in Producer) such as publishing to Flash, Quicktime, or MP4 formats, thereby solving some of Producer’s long-standing problems with operating system and browser compatibility. Presio presentations run on Windows and Mac as well as browsers not supported by Producer including Safari and Firefox.
I’ve created a quick screen cast tutorial on how to use the new Import Wizard: http://ipresent.net/support/tutorials/import_producer/index.html
Also, here are the latest release notes. We’ve added or improved quite a few things so check it out. http://ipresent.net/support/presio-rel-notes.php
