Adobe Presenter

ELearning Suite launched

Paresh Kharya — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:08:43 +0000

We have announced the new Elearning Suite today targeted at learning professionals, educators and trainers.
The Suite contains star Adobe products for creating rich and engaging elearning experiences with ease (Adobe Captivate® 4, Adobe Presenter 7, Adobe Flash® CS4 Professional, Adobe Dreamweaver® CS4, Adobe Acrobat® 9 Pro, Adobe Photoshop® CS4 Extended, Adobe Soundbooth® CS4, Adobe Device Central CS4 and Adobe Bridge CS4) along with shared tools like the SCORM Packager and the LMS adapter to help streamline eLearning content creation. The versions of Flash Professional CS4 and Dreamweaver CS4 have been enhanced with specific eLearning extensions. The version of Adobe Presenter 7, is the same version that is sold as a standalone product as well as together with Connect Pro and Acrobat 9 Pro Extended.
Adobe’s Senior Product Evangelist RJ Jacquez has created an introductory Preso on eLearning suite

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More information is available on
FAQ at Connect Users . com
Elearning suite product page

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Revamped Connect Pro Community

Paresh Kharya — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 10:36:12 +0000

If you are already a member of Connect Users community you would have noticed the significant improvements done recently to the Connect Pro Community universe. In November last year Connect Pro Resource Center (http://www.adobe.com/go/connectpro_resources) was completely revamped with over 100 tutorials, tips and tricks, and best practices articles, including a bunch on Presenter. This was followed up with the launch of the next generation of our Community site ConnectUsers.com.
If you have not yet registered on connectusers.com, here are a few more reasons to register now.
* A completely redesigned homepage that provides you with the most relevant information on one page
* Site wide topics allowing you to view site content by category
* A Suggestion Box where you can provide suggestions for the product
* Public Profiles and a Member Directory allowing you to share information on how you use the product and to connect with other users from around the world.
* A Community Gallery where you view community submitted presentations and meeting recordings
* A Best Practices User Group run by Adobe where you can find out how to take their product usage to the next level
* An always changing Topic of the Month that you can engage with to continually build on your product knowledge.
More reasons can be found here
I would encourage you to explore the new features and get connected with our user community. I would also encourage you to share your shareable Presenter Presentations that you are proud of to the community gallery by dropping us a note using the Gallery Submission Form

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Embedding Presenter Presentations on a Webpage

Paresh Kharya — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:08:04 +0000

Presenter Preso’s can be easily embedded on an html page by using the “iframe tag”. As a sample I have embedded a preso that I recently published for connect users community on using “PowerPoint Hyperlinks with Presenter” in this post.

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Sample html code
height=”768″
width=”1024″
frameborder=”0″
marginheight=”0″
marginwidth=”0″
>

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Presenter Communities

Paresh Kharya — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 13:04:51 +0000

There are a number of ways in which you can connect with other Presenter users – get your queries answered, learn best practices and share your expertise.
Connectusers.com started last year is a very active and growing community of Adobe Connect Pro and Presenter users. It has a growing collection of free tutorials and active Presenter forum. Incase you are not following this community I would highly encourage you to make a visit.
Presenter forum at Adobe website is a quick source of getting help from other Presenter users.
Presenter forums at Rob Rode’s website have some interesting tips and tricks and helpful troubleshooting information.
We are currently working on improving the experience at Connectusers.com community if you have any suggestions or would like to see anything specific do drop us a note here or at Connectusers.com

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Adobe Presenter Overview On Youtube

Paresh Kharya — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:54:39 +0000

Alistair Lee (Thank you!) Connect Product Marketing Manager has posted a video on YouTube providing brief overview of Adobe Presenter 7

You can also find video overview of other Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro offerings

Connect Pro Training

Connect Pro Meeting

Connect Pro Event

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Adobe Presenter 7 ! Now Available !

Paresh Kharya — Mon, 19 May 2008 13:28:58 +0000

If you are a corporate training professional wanting to have engaging flash trainings created quickly, educationist wanting to provide on demand courseware for students, marketing professional trying to create high impact multimedia pitch for your offerings or a subject matter expert trying to create rapid trainings, the new Adobe Presenter would make life a lot easier for you.

Adobe Presenter 7 is a very significant new release having many breakthrough new features and is available from today. You would now be able to create a lot more engaging and impactful flash based multimedia trainings very easily and quickly from within Powerpoint. These features have been packed with careful attention to ensure that we do not compromise on the ease of use that you have come to expect out of Adobe Presenter.

Some of the key highlights of the new version are

More Engaging and Higher Impact Training Creation

Presenter 7 has smart multimedia capabilities like incorporating existing video in almost any format to your trainings as flash video and embedding video’s by capturing them directly out of your webcam.You can also create high quality content with Presenter 7 now supporting CD quality stereo audio and H.264video.

Quizzing has been enhanced significantly and quiz creation is now a lot easier, faster and powerful. You can now have questions pooled together in groups and have a fixed number of questions selected randomly selected for each learner. The order of questions as well as answer options can be shuffled. You would also be able to import Quiz questions directly and easily from your existing content.

Wider Content Distribution

Creating engaging content for delivery to distributed audience is a key challenge that we have continued to address with Presenter 7. You would now be able to have trainings taken on mobile devices. You would also be able to package the training as a pdf documents with all the animations intact for easier distribution.

Increased Usability and Configurability

Presenter 7 is a lot more usable with features to make your trainings powerful yet easier to create.

Ability to restrict navigation for learners which is useful for compliance trainings.
Easier incorporation of Captivate created swf’s with automatic updation of slide timings
New format for storing audio (Y es, we have done away with PPC format)
Bulk formatting of quiz questions for faster authoring
Separate Quiz pane for easier navigation for the learners
Fewer clicks for common tasks like slide management
And a lot more …..

Available from Adobe Webstore

Presenter 7 is available for purchase as a standalone product via the Adobe store. A fully functional trial for Presenter 7 is also available from the Adobe Presenter webpage

Please visit Presenter homepage for more details about the new features of presenter. A lot of new features are a direct result of your feedback and we continue to look forward to receiving your feedback on the new release.

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Rapidly create high-quality on-demand presentations

Kathita Goel — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:03:45 +0000

Adobe Presenter, formerly Macromedia Breeze Presenter, is a rich media and e-learning authoring tool that enables anyone to create professional, high-quality on-demand presentations from within Microsoft® PowerPoint®. Presenter enables you to turn drab presentations into captivating multimedia experiences and e-learning courses through easy-to-add audio, video, and software simulations.

Adobe® Presenter Features

Rich Presentation Viewing Experience
Audio Narration and Editing
Branding
Content Authoring within Microsoft PowerPoint
File Size Control
Flexible Publish Options
Integrated Slide Notes
Multi-lingual Support
Pixel Perfect Conversion
Presentation Attachments
Presentation Reports
Presentation Viewer Customization
Presentation Viewer Templates
Presenter Video
Quiz Authoring
SCORM and AICC Support
Slide Properties
Streaming Audio and Video
Synchronized Multimedia
Universal Standards Support
Survey Authoring

Rich Presentation Viewing Experience

Provide viewers with instant access to compelling, self-running, rich-media presentations ensuring maximum transfer of knowledge in minimum time.

Audio Narration and Editing

Add narration to presentations using your PC and a microphone. Edit out mistakes and pauses, or add an external audio track to a presentation with the easy-to-use Audio Editing tool.

Branding

Content authors can add corporate logos and color schemes, presentation viewer layouts and save these settings as a theme that can be reused.

Content Authoring Within Microsoft PowerPoint

Get up and running quickly using the tools you know already. With Adobe Presenter, you can quickly create presentations in PowerPoint, with no special training or expensive technical experts required. Adobe Presenter’s wizards guide non-technical users and subject matter experts through the process of creating and publishing presentations.

Full Size Control

Select image and audio quality settings to balance conversion fidelity with a great viewing experience.

Flexible Publish Options

Publish content locally to preview or directly to a Adobe Connect Enterprise Server. Automatically zip up files or create an autorun file for use on a CD-ROM.

Integrated Slide Notes

Import, edit and export slide notes as a “script” in the record audio dialog. While you’re recording, your notes will be readily available. Optionally publish the notes in the generated presentation.

Multi-Lingual Support

Full support for converting presentations authored in any language. The presentation viewer automatically detects the language of the viewer’s operating system to display localized strings in the viewer.

Pixel Perfect Conversion

Create pixel perfect, web-ready renditions of your PowerPoint presentations, including support for the full suite of PowerPoint animations.

Presentation Attachments

Add context to your presentation content by adding attachments of any file type or web links to external sites.

Presentation Reports

Get detailed reports on who has viewed on-demand presentations published to the server on a prospect-by-prospect and slide-by-slide basis.

Presentation Viewer Customization

Customize the presentation viewer on a per-presentation basis. Add presenter information and customize what is included in the presentation viewer and what text is displayed to end users. Include speaker information such as a photo, biography, and contact information.

Presentation Viewer Templates

Choose from out of the box presentation viewer templates. Save custom presentation templates for future use to maintain consistency.

Presenter Video

Import a pre-recorded flash video of the presenter increasing the overall impact of presentations.

Quiz Authoring

Easily add quiz questions to presentations to test understanding and retention. Specify pass/fail grades and the number of times a quiz may be taken. Use question branching to tailor a learning path through a quiz based on answers.

SCORM and AICC Support

Use Adobe Presenter to create SCORM and AICC compliant content to deliver and track content through existing corporate learning management systems.

Slide Properties

Control slide navigation and titles and create complex slide branching to guide users through the presentation.

Streaming Audio and Video

Enables adaptive video and audio streaming for presentations hosted on servers to ensure a great presentation viewing experience.

Synchronized Multimedia

Link Flash movies to viewer controls so that, when a presentation is paused by the viewer, all embedded animations and videos are paused automatically and resume when the presentation is resumed.

Universal Standards Support

Adobe Presenter is unique in its ability to create a single package, managed on the server that supports SCORM 1.2, AICC, and Adobe Connect Training. This means that content can be published once and then used across multiple systems.

Survey Authoring

Add survey questions to presentations to gather feedback on eLearning content or to gather valuable customer data. Based on survey answers, tailor questions based on relevancy and interest.

For more information click here http://www.adobe.com/products/presenter/