Carmen Ferrara's Weblog 2.0

Presio and iPresent Online integration - New release

Carmen — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 19:57:53 +0000

We are very excited about the latest release of Presio. One of the original goals of iPresent was to make online training and eLearning easier and more affordable. To do so, we wanted to create products that covered each step of the online training workflow - creating compelling content, distributing content to end viewers, and the management/tracking of content and users.

We started with Presio - a desktop application that made it easy to create rich media eLearning presentations that combined audio, video, and synchronized slides. Presio generates a professional looking webcast presentation that can be viewed via any web browser. It’s a great tool for recording a lecture or creating an on-demand training webcast.

Next, we released iPresent Online, which changes the way organizations deliver online training. iPresent Online is a platform for building “learning communities” where instructors and members all create learning content. We take familiar social media tools and traditional eLearning technologies and incorporate them into a single integrated Social Learning Platform, which allows for a better online training experience.

With this latest release of Presio - we integrate seamlessly with iPresent Online By publishing your presentations to iPresent Online you are able to easily share your presentations via a link and track viewership statistics. You also get a complete online learning management system for training customers, students, or members.

If you are looking for a way to easily publish your Presio presentations online, track who is viewing your presentations, and control access to presentations - or if you are looking for a simple, but powerful learning management system - then upgrade to the latest version of Presio and signup for an iPresent Online account today.

A collection of Presio presentations from around the web

Carmen — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 15:03:06 +0000

I just wanted to post some links to a few Presio presentations from around the web. I think these are some great examples of how folks are using Presio to create great looking video presentations with synchronized slides:

http://www.switchnewmedia.com/clients/Carbon_Trust/3_Colin_Ashford_Morning/

http://mitsloan.mit.edu/alumni/reunion2009/deansluncheon2009/

http://www.ruraltech.org/video/2010/SFR_GSS/15_Urgenson/flash/

http://giffordproductions.com/clients/wellsfargo/cv_lean/index.html

http://vcc.asu.edu/taxonomy_presentation/

http://westport.com/investor/media/agm-2009/

http://video.ut.ee/producer/2010/Martin_Ehala/10.02.2010_presio/

http://harringtonbrooksproperties.com/Noonis/Investing/

Preserving widescreen aspect ratio in presentations

Carmen — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:34:37 +0000

We recently had a customer ask if it was possible to publish a Presio presentation using a widescreen video clip, and have the aspect ratio preserved. You can, but there are a couple of steps you need to take to ensure that Presio publishes your video with the correct size.

Here’s a screencast tutorial that shows how to do it:

http://ipresent.net/support/tutorials/widscreen-tut/index.html

How to create a Picture-in-Picture video

Carmen — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:11:20 +0000

I put another screencast tutorial together. This one shows a cool feature in Presio that allows you to take a PowerPoint presentation and embed a small video clip inside, effectively creating a picture-in-picture video effect. This can be done with a video editing package, but it is typically an advanced feature that is tough to find in some of those tools. Presio makes it quite easy. See how in this screencast:

http://ipresent.net/support/tutorials/pip/index.html

Creating synchronized text transcripts

Carmen — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:56:27 +0000

Recently, I’ve received some questions on how to use Presio’s transcript feature. So, I’ve gone ahead and put together a screencast tutorial that shows how to add synchronized transcript text to each slide within a Presio presentation.

http://ipresent.net/support/tutorials/transcripts/index.html

Here are steps described in the the tutorial:

Create a new Presio project and synch up slides with audio or video
Go to the “Review” tab
While on the “Review” tab click the “Edit” tab - (This will give you a list of your media clips and the related synched slides)
Choose the first slide in the list and click the “Edit Slide” button

Once here you just need to enter in the text associated with each slide into the “Slide Notes” box for each slide. The text you enter in this box will appear in the “Slide Notes” tab after you’ve published the presentation. This text will be synchronized with each slide. If you’d like you can also change the title of the “Notes” tab to “Transcript” if you’d like as well.

Presio 1.4 released

Carmen — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:00:56 +0000

I’m very pleased to announce the release of Presio 1.4, which is now available for download.

We continue to improve version 1 as well as plan for version 2 - this release includes several bug fixes and improvements. A couple notable improvements include:

Flash publishing performance has been improved by 50%
Added customizable publishing settings for Audio w/ Slides projects using the Slideshow template

Detailed release notes are available here.

Presio 1.3 released

Carmen — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:13:13 +0000

I’m very pleased to announce the release of Presio 1.3, which is now available for download.

This release includes several bug fixes and improvements, but we’ve also added a great new feature that allows you to specify the output quality of a published presentation. There are 3 presets (High, Medium, Low) and you may also setup your own custom encoder settings. You can specify your own frame rate, bit rate and frame size (in pixels).

The ability to customize the output quality of the published video file allows more flexibility when determining the inherent trade-off in distributing web video - quality vs. file size. This new release of Presio will allow you to better manage that often difficult decision.

Release notes are listed below this entry as well as on our release notes history page - also feel free to download this new release directly from our download page. As always, if you have an earlier version of Presio, you can simply download and install the newest version right over the old one. All your settings and previous projects are preserved.

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Release Notes - Presio 1.3.10 - June 12, 2008

Added: Ability to specify output quality of encoded video using presets or customizing your own settings (bit rate, frame size, frame rate)
Added: New player template for Windows Media Video (Default - Speaker Left)
Fixed: Resolved issue of importing and working with 2 or more PowerPoint presentations
Fixed: Resolved issue of importing WMA9 Voice audio files
Fixed: Cetain characters now display properly within slide titles
Fixed: IE6 Flash rendering bug
Improved: Added ability to Cancel the media import process
Improved: Media file import process maintains the original media’s quality settings

Working with the Review Tab - Screencast

Carmen — Sun, 11 May 2008 03:02:03 +0000

In the latest version of Presio, we have redesigned the Review Tab. We’ve divided the “Review” process into two, more logical (and functional) options called: Preview and Edit. Using the Preview tab, you are now able to see what your Presio published presentation will look like to your end viewers, before actually publishing it. The audio/video plays back and all the slides are in synch with the media.

The Edit tab allows you to modify your project by managing captured slides and clips that have already been recorded/imported. You can change slide titles, slide notes, or slide time points. You may also import/export clips and slides as well as use the new crop tool to trim any clip within Presio.

To understand how the features of the Review Tab work, take look at the screencast:

http://www.ipresent.net/support/tutorials/review_tab_overview/index.html

Customizing Player Templates

Carmen — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:02:22 +0000

I’ve been getting a lot of questions lately as to whether or not Presio templates can be customized or not. Presio ships with a set of webcast templates for both audio and video presentations and for a particular media output format. You can see some examples here.

You may however, create your own custom player templates. With some basic HTML skills, you can customize any aspect of an existing template or create a new one from scratch.

Here’s a screencast tutorial that shows an example of customizing the “Default” template by creating a new version with one key modification to meet your needs:
http://ipresent.net/support/tutorials/custom_templates2

Presio 1.2 released

Carmen — Mon, 05 May 2008 03:28:28 +0000

I’m very pleased to announce the release of Presio 1.2 - (1.2.35 to be exact). This is a rather large minor release. We’ve incorporated a lot of great feedback that we’ve received from our early users, since releasing V 1.0 back in February.

Not only are there bug fixes and improvements, but we’ve also added quite a few new features. Some key additions include: a simplified (and more intuitive) Review Tab redesign, new player templates, higher resolution slide captures, ability to crop clips, and more.

I’ll be posting some screencasts/tutorials on some of the new features in the 1.2 release in the coming days.

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Presio Release 1.2.35 (May 2, 2008)

Added: New player templates (Default and Classic - with Speaker Left or Right)
Added: New slideshow player templates (PIP and Side-by-side) with title fade-in
Added: Configure Slide Publish settings - up to 4 sizes and toggle on/off
Added: Configure default PowerPoint window size for capture (increases slide capture resolution)
Added: Windows Media video template support for linking to Presentation Details page
Added: New Flash Default template with speaker video on right side
Added: New Seek to Time feature
Added: New Seek Back/Forward 1 second at a time
Added: Synch Tab - Undo last captured slide
Added: Review Tab - clip crop tool for easy head/tail trimming of clips
Fixed: Dragging Media Slider on Synch Tab to allow better seeking during playback
Fixed: Apostrophe issue when loading PowerPoint files across shared drive
Fixed: Clip name issue when deleting clip with same name as next in sequence
Fixed: Slide animations “off by one” bug
Fixed: Flash playback issue on Mac Safari
Fixed: Add any filetype as an attachment on the Details Tab
Improved: Local Flash playback support with less security issues
Improved: Redesigned Review tab - Preview/Edit improved user experience
Improved: Save project dialog when creating a new project (more intuitive)
Improved: Lots of minor bug fixes and overall improved stability…