Adobe Presenter 8 / Features

Minimize the time, effort, and cost associated with producing videos by doing it yourself right at your desktop without specialized equipment or training. Simultaneously capture slide presentations, webcam video, and audio to create engaging video presentations with just a few clicks.

Speed up post-production with an intuitive interface that makes video editing a cinch. Dynamically mix your slide presentation and webcam video. Edit your video with crop, trim, pan, and zoom, and automatically adjust the brightness and sharpness. Enhance audio quality by reducing background noise.

Focus viewer attention on specific content by highlighting it while recording. Make annotations by simply moving your pointing device. Work with attractive themes, add text overlays to introduce topics or speakers, and select from a range of introductory and concluding clips. Include your logo for project-wide branding.

Reach a wider audience by publishing video-based content created with Presenter to YouTube and other video sharing sites.

Add narration to presentations using your PC and a microphone. Eliminate mistakes and awkward pauses or add an external audio track to a presentation with the easy-to-use Audio Editor tool.

Import video from virtually any format and embed it as FLV in the slides. Video can be inserted either as a part of the main content or as a "talking head" (sidebar) video of the presenter.

Insert aesthetically designed interactive elements into your content with just a click. Simply select from a wide range of stunning out-of-the-box interactions like Process Cycle, Glossary, Accordion, Pyramid, and Animated Rollover, and then customize the content and appearance.

Tell your story more effectively using human characters. Select from a wide range of out-of-the-box actors making various gestures to give your content a more personal touch. Set actors against relevant backgrounds to make your scenarios look more realistic.

Spend less time and effort livening up your training content. Choose from attractive, professionally designed themes that blend backgrounds, styles, fonts, and layouts. Apply them across projects to maintain a consistent look and feel. You can also customize the templates to suit your requirements.

Easily add quiz questions to presentations to test understanding and retention.

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

Leverage existing content and save time on new quiz creation by importing questions from existing Presenter quizzes or quizzes created using Articulate.

Organize questions into groups and make them available as question pools. Specify the quantity of questions you want to include, and Presenter will select questions randomly at output.

Create SCORM- and AICC-compliant content in Presenter, and deliver and track content through existing corporate LMSs.

Deliver your videos on iPad* using the mobile app for Adobe Presenter. Export scoring data from the app to AICC-compliant LMSs. You can also get a white-labeled app from Adobe and brand it for your organization.

Reach a wider audience by publishing video-based content created with Presenter to YouTube and other video sharing sites.

Integrate with Adobe Connect™ software to deploy, manage, deliver, and track courses and content. Analyze slide-level and question-level feedback, generate meaningful training reports, and enable learners to track their own progress. Get detailed information on viewing behavior, including which slides were viewed and in what order, to identify which sections of your presentations are not as effective.

Get full support for converting presentations authored in multiple languages. The presentation viewer automatically detects the language of the viewer's operating system to display localized strings in the viewer.

Link movies to viewer controls so that when the viewer pauses a presentation, all embedded animations and videos are paused automatically and resume when presentation playback continues.

Enforce navigation restrictions to help ensure that individual slides are displayed for a specific duration in your presentation.

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

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

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

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

Automatically generate a search tab to provide direct navigation to relevant slides based on keyword searches.

Provide easy navigation for quizzes and surveys through a quiz pane in the published output.

Add corporate logos and color schemes to presentation viewer layouts and save the settings as a theme for future use.

Take advantage of adaptive video and audio streaming for presentations hosted on Adobe Connect Server to promote a great presentation viewing experience.

Make sure each student has a unique quiz by shuffling the order in which each answer appears.

Make sure each student has a unique quiz by shuffling the order in which each question appears.

Get detailed reports on who has viewed on-demand presentations published to Adobe Connect Server on a prospect-by-prospect and slide-by-slide basis.

For an alternate method of distribution, publish your Presenter presentation as an Adobe PDF file.

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

Publish Presenter content once and then use it across multiple systems. Presenter is unique in its ability to create a single package, managed on Adobe Connect Server, that supports SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004, AICC, and Adobe Connect Training.