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iSpring Pro 4.3
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iSpring Pro 4.3 Guide Table of contents 1
Welcome to iSpring Pro Guide.......................................................................................... 5
2
iSpring Pro Activation....................................................................................................... 6
2.1
To register and activate your iSpring Pro: ......................................................................6
2.2
Trial version registration............................................................................................... 10
2.3
License Deactivation..................................................................................................... 12
3
Trial version limitations................................................................................................... 13
4
Getting started with iSpring Pro...................................................................................... 15
5
Product Features...............................................................................................................16
5.1
Product features............................................................................................................. 16
5.1.1
Publishing to iSpring Online portal............................................................................ 16
5.1.2
Keyboard customization............................................................................................. 16
5.1.3
Advanced processing of SmartArt objects..................................................................16
5.1.4
Custom company logo in Lite player..........................................................................16
5.1.5
Random Effects animation support.............................................................................16
5.1.6
Standard PowerPoint sound volume control...............................................................16
5.1.7
YouTube video insert..................................................................................................17
5.1.8
Presets......................................................................................................................... 17
5.1.9
System Fonts Display................................................................................................. 17
5.1.10
Advanced Glossy Player........................................................................................... 17
5.1.11
Slides Notes Styles.................................................................................................... 17
5.1.12
Presentation Explorer................................................................................................ 18
5.1.13
Audio Recording and Synchronization..................................................................... 19
5.1.14
Multilevel Navigation............................................................................................... 20
5.1.15
Multiple Presenters....................................................................................................21 Copyright © 2005-2009 iSpring Solutions, Inc. All rights reserved.
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iSpring Pro key features................................................................................................ 23
5.3
Animation Effects Support............................................................................................ 24
5.4
Slide Transitions Support.............................................................................................. 27
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Publish presentation......................................................................................................... 28
6.1
Publish presentation.......................................................................................................28
6.2
Publish to Flash Window...............................................................................................29
6.2.1
Publish Presets............................................................................................................ 30
6.2.2
Publish Presentation to My Computer........................................................................ 31
6.2.3
Publish Presentation to iSpring Online....................................................................... 32
6.2.4
Publish Presentation to SlideBoom.............................................................................34
6.2.5
Publish Presentation to Web/FTP............................................................................... 36
6.2.6
Send Presentation via E-Mail......................................................................................40
6.3
Publish to Flash Window - General Tab....................................................................... 41
6.4
Publish to Flash Window - Advanced Tab....................................................................44
6.4.1 6.5 7
Publish to Flash Window - Media Tab..........................................................................51
Players..............................................................................................................................53
7.1 8
Keyboard Customization.............................................................................................47
iSpring Players...............................................................................................................53
Presentation management................................................................................................ 54
8.1
Presentation Management............................................................................................. 54
8.2
Presentation Explorer.................................................................................................... 54
8.2.1
Multilevel Navigation................................................................................................. 55
8.2.2
Hidden Slides.............................................................................................................. 55
8.2.3
Slide Title....................................................................................................................56
8.2.4
Presenters.................................................................................................................... 56
8.2.5
Playback mode............................................................................................................ 56
8.2.6
Slide duration.............................................................................................................. 56
8.2.7
Media - Audio............................................................................................................. 57
8.3
Links.............................................................................................................................. 57
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Links........................................................................................................................... 58
8.3.2
Links - References Tab............................................................................................... 58
8.3.3
Links - Web Links.......................................................................................................61
8.4
Presenters.......................................................................................................................63
8.4.1
Presenters.................................................................................................................... 63
8.4.2
Presenters manager - Presenters Tab.......................................................................... 63
8.4.3
Presenter manager - Company Tab.............................................................................67
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Narration.......................................................................................................................... 69
9.1
Narration section........................................................................................................... 69
9.2
Audio Recording........................................................................................................... 69
9.3
Audio Importing............................................................................................................ 71
9.4
Synchronization.............................................................................................................73
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Insert...............................................................................................................................74
10.1
Insert............................................................................................................................ 74
10.2
Insert Flash...................................................................................................................75
10.3
YouTube video insert...................................................................................................76
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Support........................................................................................................................... 77
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iSpring solutions.............................................................................................................79
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iSpring Pro Guide 1 Welcome to iSpring Pro Guide iSpring Pro 4 is an easy and fast Microsoft PowerPoint add-in for transforming your PowerPoint presentations into Flash, the most portable multimedia format. iSpring Pro lets you create high-quality interactive Flash movies from your PowerPoint content in one click. With iSpring Pro 4 you can make your presentations available to millions of viewers who use a wide variety of different computer platforms and web browsers. All iSpring functions are accessible through the PowerPoint toolbar. Flash movies created with iSpring Pro retain all visual parameters of your PowerPoint presentations including PowerPoint interactivity and animation effects. iSpring Pro accurately keeps background audio, video and Flash movies embedded into an PowerPoint presentation. iSpring provides you handy tools for managing your presentation content, organize multilevel navigation, add multiple presenters and customize player to make presentation perfectly fit to your requirements. iSpring Pro lets you record voice narrations and sync them with your presentation to capture viewr's attention.
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2 iSpring Pro Activation It is extremely important to go trough a registation and activation process before you start using a full or a trial version of iSpring Pro. You are entitled to install and use iSpring product on two computers, one work PC and one home PC or laptop according to iSpring licensing. You have two activations avaliable for a License Key you receive after purchase. Please note, you can deactivate your license when changing a PC or reinstalling Windows system.
In the sections below you will learn how to • register and activate a full version, you need to purchase iSpring product and after the order is processed you will receive a License Key via email; • register a free trial version which is a 30-day fully functional version of iSpring product; • deactivate your license when you install iSpring on another PC or reinstall entire system on your computer; 2.1 To register and activate your iSpring Pro: 1. Click Activate button in the About section of the product toolbar to launch iSpring Pro Activation Wizard.
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2. If you want to use iSpring Pro unlimitedly, please, click Register the product. The product registration removes all the limitations of the evaluation version and entitles to free upgrades to all subsequent 4.x versions of the product. If you want to start a free fully functional 30 day trial of iSpring Pro, please, click Start free trial usage. Free 30-day trial period allows evaluating all product features. During the trial period an evaluation mode watermark will be put into each generated Flash presentation. 3. If you have already purchased iSpring Pro license, please enter your registration name and license key into the appropriate fields and click Next to proceed to License Activation.
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If you want to get a license for unlimited use of iSpring Pro, click Purchase a license. 4. It is strongly recommended that you activate your iSpring Pro right away. Please click Activate the License via Internet now for immediate license activation. The activation process requires active Internet connection and usually takes a few seconds. It is necessary to activate your license within 3 days. On the expiry of this period, an evaluation mode watermark will be added to generate Flash presentations until the license is activated.
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If no Internet connection is available at your current computer or it is blocked by a firewall or in case PowerPoint has no permission to Internet access or any other reason, please select Manual Activation. You can send license activation request with License Request Code and License Key via email from another computer. When you receive License Activation Code from iSpring Support Team, please enter it into the corresponding field and click Done. Activation Requests are usually processed within one business day.
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2.2 Trial version registration To register your iSpring Pro Trial version: 1. Click Activate button in the About section of the product toolbar to launch iSpring Pro Activation Wizard. Select the Start free trial usage option and click Next.
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2. Please copy and paste your registration name and license key you have received in an email when applying for it into the appropriate fields and hit Next. If you do not have free registration details, please go to Get the Free trial license to apply for one at our website.
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3. After you entered your trial license data, you can enjoy the full-functional trail for 30 days. After the trial period is expired, you need to purchase iSpring license to continue using iSpring software. 2.3 License Deactivation iSpring 1-seat license implies two activations for installation on a work computer and a home PC/laptop. If you need to change computer where iSpring installed or reinstall the system on your PC, you need to uninstall iSpring and select Deactivate my license option prompted when uninstalling the product. Your license will be deactivated so you can activate iSpring on another machine.
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3 Trial version limitations Installing iSpring Pro Trial is the best way to evaluate the product. It gives you the opportunity to get acquainted with great capabilities of iSpring Pro for free without any functionality restrictions. iSpring Pro Trial provides all conversion features and Flash presentation tuning options avaliable in the registered product and produces Flash content of the same quality as the full version. To evaluate iSpring Pro you need to register your Trial copy. It will be valid for 30 days and after this period expires you need to purchase iSpring Pro id you would like to continue using the product. Trial version has iSpring banner at the bottom of each produced slide as you can see on the picture below. After purchase and registration of iSpring Pro this trial banner will vanish.
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4 Getting started with iSpring Pro After successful completion of the iSpring setup, you can access the iSpring toolbar from within PowerPoint. iSpring authoring functions provides you with the ability to make conversion into Flash format in one click or to specify the playback settings, tune output presentation appearance and composition. You can include audio, Flash making your presentation even better. Refences will add additional information value to your presentation. iSpring Pro includes the following main windows: • Publish To Flash Window • Presentation Explorer • Links Window • Presenters Window • Record Audio Window • Synchronize Window • Insert Flash Window • Insert YouTube video One click publishing One click on the "Quick publish" button and you get a high quality Flash movie with the default settings. Once you've specified your conversion settings, iSpring Quick Publish will respect them when publishing presentation.
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5 Product Features 5.1 Product features Pro 4.3 now implements our latest innovations in its PowerPoint to Flash conversion process, providing the most accurate conversion in today's market, while also adding new and powerful features. 5.1.1 Publishing to iSpring Online portal
Here comes a new publishing destination - iSpring Online. Not only it's a web-portal for professional presentation sharing, it's a new generation LCMS (learning content management system) that allows tracking your content activities. 5.1.2 Keyboard customization
Not always shortcuts make long delays. iSpring customized shortcut keys will serve you right. Set your own shortcut keys and save them to use it the future alike projects. Each command can be assigned up to three shortcuts to the viewer choice. 5.1.3 Advanced processing of SmartArt objects
SmartArt objects processing is now supported with unbelievable accuracy. So awaken a designer inside of you and let yourself play with expressive SmartArt graphics that would visually communicate your information. 5.1.4 Custom company logo in Lite player
Enhance a simple Lite player layout with your own branding. Add your company logo to make it look more professional and complete. Don't forget that recognizability is extremely important in today's business world. 5.1.5 Random Effects animation support
Surprise your viewers with new animation effects applied to a single object every time they play your slideshow. Set random effect to your objects and no concerns about its output quality. Random effects are now well taken care of by iSpring. 5.1.6 Standard PowerPoint sound volume control
Now Standard PowerPoint audio volume control is supported. High, medium, low or even
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muted - whatever you set for your soundtrack in PowerPoint would be played at just the same level in the output Flash. 5.1.7 YouTube video insert
The time has come for you to amaze your audience with a YouTube video broadcasted right from your presentation. Those clips can sometimes be so much more expressive than just plain explanations and say so much more than us. 5.1.8 Presets
You only use one pre-publishing settings model for all of your presentations or you have no idea how to set all of those options for a certain project? No problem! We have thought of these scenarios for you. Just save your own frequently used presets or select the ones that iSpring offers for different project types. 5.1.9 System Fonts Display
Having trouble with decent oriental languages display in your player template? Not anymore! The most popular player skins - Advanced Glossy, Advanced Matte and Crystal - now support system fonts. 5.1.10 Advanced Glossy Player
The new highly customizable and stylish Player supports that supports Multilevel navigation, Notes, References, Company logo and presenter's photo and info, Presenter's video 5.1.11 Slides Notes Styles
iSpring Pro 4.2 accurately keeps bold, italic, underline, color, font size, bullets styles of slides notices. Please, check the Notes tab in the sample presentation above.
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5.1.12 Presentation Explorer
This intuitive tool makes your presentation structure clear, transparent and easy to customize. You can control your timing, media positioning, as well as a Pro for each single slide.
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5.1.13 Audio Recording and Synchronization
Record audio narrations and synchronize them with your slideshow's playback and animations. You will capture the attention of the viewer more easily, due to the added audio elements supporting the presentation.
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5.1.14 Multilevel Navigation
A feature that is extremely helpful in expanding on any topic presented in a particular slide is attained by making use of the 'hidden' slides function in the same directory. Group your slides by topics within one compound presentation to make it easy to navigate. iSpring makes this not only easy, but intuitive via the built in Pro handling tool.
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5.1.15 Multiple Presenters
This feature is very important for a group of people presenting one course or slideshow together. It allows to store and access all the necessary info about each Pro: photo, title, email, web, etc.
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5.2 iSpring Pro key features Whatever you do in PowerPoint iSpring Pro can make your PowerPoint brainchild easily distributable, viewable and accessible everywhere. PowerPoint Features Support PowerPoint content • 189 of 199 PP 2003/2007 animation effects updated • All PowerPoint 2003/2007 slide transitions • Animations by words and letters • Vector representation of standard PPT objects updated • Action buttons and hyperlinks • Slide Masters with interactive elements • Hidden slides • Right-to-Left languages • Custom slideshows • Slide notes styles
Embedded multimedia • YouTube videos • Embedded Flash movies • AVI/WMV/MPG/MP4 video clips • MP3, WAV and WMA audio • Background audio for a slide • Background audio for a presentation • Animation and sound synchronization • Sounds for animation effects • Sounds for slide transitions • Stop transition sound • PowerPoint sound volume control new
Flash Movie Tuning Features Appearance & Playback • Multilevel presentation structur • Solid/Separate/Standalone Flash movie • Flash context menu disabling • Mouse/keyboard slide navigation • Looped Flash presentation playback • Flash movie autostart control • Flash movie preloader
Flash based Player • 10 Flash player templates • Customizable design, layout & color scheme • System fonts support • Live preview before publishing • Advanced Glossy Player updated • Ink Annotation tools • Multilevel navigation • Flash banner skin • Keyboard Customization new
Publishing and Delivery Modes Destination • All slides/Selected slides • Possible destinations • Local folder at My Computer • Sharing at iSpring Online new • Sharing at SlideBoom • Web site via remote FTP server • E-mail •
Output formats
Advanced options • Publishing Presets new • Presentation Manager • Multiple Presenters & Company logos • Audio narrations recording • Audio & presentation sync Quality and Compression control • "Smart" compression
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Flash file (.SWF) .EXE file - no Flash Player required HTML page ZIP archive
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Compression presets Audio & Video bitrate control JPEG and PNG image compression
5.3 Animation Effects Support iSpring Pro supports 180+ animation effects of PowerPoint 2003 and PowerPoint 2007 as well as combinations of effects, effect enhancements & timing and all possible directions for supported effects. iSpring Pro smoothly converts repeated animations with set number of strokes, animations with "Auto-reverse" and "Rewind at end" settings. Animation effects are listed below in the same way as they appear in PowerPoint. Effects that are not supported in current iSpring version are highlighted with light grey color. Entrance Effects
Exit Effects
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Emphasis Effects
Motion Paths
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5.4 Slide Transitions Support iSpring Pro supports all slide transition effects of PowerPoint 2003 and PowerPoint 2007. The list of supported slide transitions is given below. Names of all effects are the same as in PowerPoint. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Blinds Horizontal Blinds Vertical Box In Box Out Checkboard Across Checkboard Down Comb Horizontal Comb Vertical Cover Down Cover Left Cover Right Cover Up Cover Left-Down Cover Left-Up Cover Right-Down Cover Right-Up Cut Cut Through Black Dissolve Fade Smoothly Fade Through Black Newsflash Push Down
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Shape Diamond Shape Plus Split Horizontal In Split Horizontal Out Split Vertical In Split Vertical Out Strips Left-Down Strips Left-Up Strips Right-Down Strips Right-Up Uncover Down Uncover Left Uncover Right Uncover Up Uncover Left-Down Uncover Left-Up Uncover Right-Down Uncover Right-Up Wedge Wheel Clockwise, 1 Spoke Wheel Clockwise, 2 Spokes Wheel Clockwise, 3 Spokes Wheel Clockwise, 4 Spokes
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Push Left Push Right Push Up Random Bars Horizontal Random Bars Vertical Shape Circle
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Wheel Clockwise, 8 Spokes Wipe Down Wipe Left Wipe Right Wipe Up Random Transition
6 Publish presentation 6.1 Publish presentation Presentation conversion process starts with clicking Publish on your iSpring toolbar.
Publish Window helps you apply individual settings for your presentation conversion. It consists of three different tabs described below: • General - determines destination and composition of output Flash presentation • Advanced - sets playback options, size and scale parameters for your output Flash movie • Media - manages your multimedia content, and makes large presentations conversion considerably easier by detaching media content files
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6.2 Publish to Flash Window Publish to Flash Window allows you to publish PowerPoint presentation to Flash format in a couple of clicks and tune appearance settings, composition and playback options for output presentation. All your last-used settings will be saved for the next time you publish presentation. Destination options There are five publishing options on Publish Window that will help you to get results of your presentation faster: • Publish Presentation to My Computer - Select this option to publish your presentaiton
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to a folder on your local computer or network share. Publish Presentation to iSpring Online - This option lets you publish your presentation online and track user viewing activities. Publish Presentation to SlideBoom - This option allows you to upload your presentation to online portal and release it worldwide. Publish Presentation to Web/FTP - Select this option if you want to upload your presentation to an FTP server. Send Presentation via E-Mail - Select this option if you want to e-mail your presentation.
Publish Window tabs If you want to specify the individual settings for your presentation publishing, go through the tabs on the Publish Window: • General - destination and composition of output Flash presentation • Advanced - appearance, navigation, size and scale parameters for output Flash movie • Media - compression options for images, audio and video files 6.2.1 Publish Presets
iSpring 4 features a presets managing tool. It allows applying necessary settings for a certain project. All you do is selecting a preset type from a drop-down list out of offered or newly created ones. To manage presets: 1. Click Custom presets on the lower part of your Publish window. 2. To apply a preset, choose it from an Available presets dropdown list and click Use selected preset. 3. To create a new preset, hit More 'Create new. Type in a name for your new custom preset. 4. To change your custom preset's name, click Rename and type in a new name. 5. To save your preset in an outside file, go to Import and choose a new preset containing file destination. NOTE! Exporting presets, iSpring creates new files in .ISX format. 6. To access already existing preset from an outside file, click Import and choose the necessary file from your resource. 7. To completely remove a preset from your computer, click Delete. 8. To leave Publish Advanced Manager, click Close.
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Should you have any questions about iSpring Pro click the link Ask your question at the bottom of the window. We will be happy to answer all your questions and help you to get maximum benefit of our product. 6.2.2 Publish Presentation to My Computer
To save published presentation to a folder on local computer or to a network share for local viewing, follow the Publish to My Computer instructions.
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To publish presentation on local computer or network share: 1. Type the name for your output Flash movie next to the Presentation Title field. 2. Specify a local folder or a network share to which you want to save the presentation next to the Destination Folder field: • type the path to the destination folder manually, or • click the "Browse" button on the right of Destination Folder field, browse for the folder, select it and click Ok. 3. When you finish with settings, click the Publish button to publish your presentation. Back to Top 6.2.3 Publish Presentation to iSpring Online
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You can publish your presentation to iSpring Online portal which allows public or private sharing of your content and tracking all the user activities on it.
Back to Top To upload your presentation: 1. Click the "Edit Account" button on the right of Account field. You will see a window where you can enter your account details or get free one.
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2. When you enter your account details iSpring validates this data and you will see your name in the Account field.
3. Click the Publish button. iSpring will save your presentation to a local folder and it convert to Flash format. This is a time consuming process and it may take a few minutes. 4. Click the Upload button and view your presentation at iSpring Online. Back to Top 6.2.4 Publish Presentation to SlideBoom
You can publish your presentation to SlideBoom online portal and it will host your Flash slideshow for millions of online users. The membership is free.
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To upload your presentation: 1. Click the "Edit Account" button on the right of Account field. You will see a window where you can enter your account details or get free one.
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2. When you enter your account details SlideBoom validates this data and you will see your name in the Account field.
3. Click the Publish button. iSpring will save your presentation to a local folder and it convert to Flash format. This is a time consuming process and it may take a few minutes. After conversion you can set descriptions and details for your Flash movie. #Allow public access# option makes your presentation available for viewing for everyone. If you uncheck this option, your presentation will be uploaded but not shared. In this case only you will be able to view this presentation. 4. Click the Upload button and view your presentation at SlideBoom. Back to Top 6.2.5 Publish Presentation to Web/FTP
If you want others to download and view your presentation all worldwide you can upload it to a web server on the Internet or Intranet.
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To publish presentation on the Web/FTP: 1. Type the name for your output Flash movie next to the Presentation Title field. 2. Click the "FTP Accounts" button on the right of Destination FTP address field. You will see a window where you can add, edit and delete FTP accounts.
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To create a new FTP account, you need to fill in the window shown below:
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FTP Account Host name
Textual host name (e.g. mysite.com) or IP address (e.g. 77.77.55.88) of the web server where the presentation will be uploaded.
Port
FTP servers generally use port 21, but sometimes the port number may differ. For more information, contact your network administrator.
Path
The DNS address of FTP site.
User name
If anonymous access to the FTP is not allowed, type your user name.
Password
If anonymous access to the FTP is not allowed, type your password.
3. When you finish with settings click the Publish button to publish and upload your presentation. Back to Top
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6.2.6 Send Presentation via E-Mail
If you want to send your presentation, select Send via E-Mail option. A new e-mail with the presentation attached to it will be created by your mail program. You can immediately send it to the specified e-mail address.
To publish and e-mail presentation: 1. Type the name for your final Flash presentation next to the Presentation Title field. 2. Type the recipient's e-mail address next to the E-Mail field. 3. When you finished with the settings, click the Publish button to publish your presentation.
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Back to Top 6.3 Publish to Flash Window - General Tab The General tab allows you to specify the Flash output of your PowerPoint presentation: title, destination, appearance, Player skin and composition.
General Presentation Title
A title for your Flash presentation which will display in Player.
Destionation
A local folder, SlideBoom portal, FTP Address or e-mail depending on where you want to store
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your Flash presentation. File name
The name for output .swf file, title for a folder if you publish presentation as separate slides and name for the .zip file if you archive Flash movie.
General | Slide Range All Slides
Select this option if you want to convert into Flash format the entire presentation.
Selected Slides
This option will allow you to publish only selected slides from your presentation. Select necessary slides from within PowerPoint then choose the Selected Slides option and publish your presentation.
General | Flash Output Presentation
PowerPoint presentation will be converted into a solid Flash movie or in a set of .swf files wraped in Flash based Player.
All in one Flash file
All slides of PowerPoint presentation will be converted into a solid Flash movie with all external resources embedded in one .swf file.
Generate HTML file
iSpring generates a simple HTML web page with Flash movie that simplifies publishing on the Web. You can choose either presentation publishing as a HTML file or as an executable (.exe) file.
Generate EXE file
If selected, iSpring Pro generates an executable (.exe) file with Flash presentation. Such movie can be displayed everywhere even if you don't have Flash Player installed.
Full screen playback
If this option is enabled, your presentation will occupy the entire screen during playback.
Standalone Flash Slides
iSpring will generate a set of .swf files. Each slide of your PowerPoint presentation will be converted into a separate Flash movie and no Player is created to control Flash clip playback. This mode can be useful if you plan embed custom player or integrate Flash slide into web pages or your blog.
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ZIP output
Check this box if you want to archive (zip) your Flash presentation. Note: set of Flash clips is always zipped when publishing to E-mail.
General | Preveiw Skin
Select skin for Player from the drop-down menu. Ten skins are available: Advance Glossy skin is new stylish and fully customizable Player with support of Multilevel Navigation, Presenter's video, Marker Tools and Multiple Presenters and logos. Advance Matte skin is highly customizable skin that allows you to adjust unique colors for Player and Marker tools, customize navigation elements and specify your own captions for tabs and buttons. Banner is special skin optimized for Flash banner creation. It doesn't support transition effects and sounds but therefore the output file size is smaller in comparison with no skin option. Classic skin wraps your Flash movie into the Player with thumbnails view, outlines view, slide notes view and Presenter info. Crystal skin allows you to customize player layout, navigation elements and create unique presentation appearance. Lite updated provides basic navigation options to control Flash presentation playback and allows to customize company logo. None allows you to publish presentation without visible Player. Navigation panel supports most commonly used navigation operations to control slide navigation of your Flash presentation. Navigation + Marker provides you with basic navigation elements and Marker tool with customizable types and colors. Navigation + Notes provides you with basic navigation elements and Notes.
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You can get detailed description of how you can customize • Advanced Glossy Skin • Advanced Matte Skin • Crystal Skin • Classic Skin • Navigation panel • Navigation + Marker.
Customize
You can customize the Advanced Glossy, Advanced Matte, Classic, Crystal skins, Navigation + Marker and Navigation + Notes panels. The Live Preview feature allows you to see immediately how your presentation will look when after conversion.
6.4 Publish to Flash Window - Advanced Tab Use the Advanced tab to configure the options for PowerPoint to Flash conversion, specify size of presentation and settings to control Flash movie playback.
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Advanced | Flash movie Size
Width and height of output Flash presentation.
Scale
Percentage of the movie's size relatively to the original presentation's size.
Note:width, height and scale are related parameters; and iSpring maintains the aspect ratio as you change one of these parameters. iSpring technology allows to reduce the height and the width of the presentation without loss of clarity. Advanced | Flash movie Flash Movie Frame rate
The number of Flash frames per second. Small values are not recommended because this can
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cause flickering when playing animations. Background color
You can set a background color for the entire presentation. Double clicking the current color next to this option will open a standard window where you can select an appropriate color.
Flash version
Select the version of Flash Player. Flash players of 7, 8, 9 versions are available.
Disable Flash printing
Check the box if you don#t want to allow printing your Flash presentation. #Print# option in the right-click menu will be disabled in the generated Flash file.
Disable Flash menu
Disables right click menu and top menu of generated Flash movie playback window.
Optimize images for resolution
Check the box to optimize images for given screen resolution which you can select from the dropdown menu. If set value is smaller than presentation size, images will be optimized for the presentation dimensions.
Advanced | Playback and Navigation Add Preloader
This option adds a pre-loader to Flash presentation which shows progress of the Flash presentation loading.
Start presentation automatically
Tick this option if you would like your Flash presentation to start automatically as soon as the first slide is loaded.
Change all slides automatically
If this option is checked slides in Flash presentation will advance automatically.
Minimal slide duration
This value indicates minimal playback time in seconds for non-animated slides. Slide duration for particular slides can be specified in Presentation Explorer.
Auto-play on-click animations each
Select it to automatically advance to the next step for on-click animations after the number of seconds you enter. "Automatic animations" option will also respect timing set from within PowerPoint.
Advance animations on mouse click
Select it to advance to the next animation step
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when you click the mouse. This option applies only for slides that contain mouse driven animations, 'Automatic animations' will always start according to the timings set from within the Custom Animation dialog of PowerPoint. Keyboard playback control
This option allows you to control presentation playback by keyboard keys. Mark this option, if you want to control your output presentation playback with keyboard. The following set of keys will be applied by default: • Page Up: transition to the previous slide • Page Down: advance to the next slide • Left: rewind • Right: fast forward • Up: increase volume • Down: decrease volume • Space: play/pause • Home: restart current slide • End: stop at the end of the current slide • Ctrl+Home: move to the first slide • Ctrl+End: move to the last slide • Backspace: return to the last viewed slide • Enter: move to the next animation step • Shift+Enter: return to the previous animation step Click Customize if you want to change the keys for certain actions. You can set up to 3 keys per each action and import/export a set of shortcut keys from/into a file.
Looped playback
If selected, your presentation will automatically start from the beginning after the last slide is finished. This feature is essential for creation of Flash banners and trade shows.
6.4.1 Keyboard Customization
You can control your output Flash presentation playback with your keyboard keys, customize them the way you want, import/export shortcut combination from/into a file. To make Keyboard Playback control available for your output Flash file, please tick Keyboard playback control and click Customize. To reassign the shortcut keys, click Customize.
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Each action can be set to be controlled by up to 3 different keyboard keys. To add a new key for an action, click a blue pen icon in one of the three columns in a corresponding line and press a required key or key combination with Ctrl or Shift. Note: You cannot assign one key for two or more actions. If you enter an already assigned key or key combination, you will be additionally asked if you really want to replace it. Click red cross icon to remove a shortcut key.
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You can export a set of shortcuts into a file to further apply it to other projects. Once you are done assigning all the shortcuts, click Export. Name the file and select the directory to save it to in the Save As dialog window.
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To apply an already saved shortcut set, click Import and select a necessary file with an .isk extension. Click Reset defaults to cancel all the implied changes and get back to the default set of shortcuts.
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6.5 Publish to Flash Window - Media Tab The Media tab allows you to configure compression settings for presentation. The lower quality of images and audio/video objects, the smaller the size of your Flash presentation.
Compression Use Preset
iSpring Pro provides you with 4 present compression modes that optimize Flash movie for publishing to the web with low or high connection speed, publishing to the Local Network drive or publishing on CD. Also you can create up to 10 custom compression presets special for your individual needs.
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Image compression
If you check "Smart compression" mode for converting your presentation to Flash, all images will be saved keeping high quality and small size. Read more about Smart compression in iSpring blog. "Lossy" compression will convert and save all embedded images to .jpg format. "Lossless" compression converts all images in your presentation with the highest quality.
Audio compression
By default iSpring Pro keeps original quality of audio in presentation. If needed you can set higher or less bitrate but it will influence output file size and audio quality.
Video compression
By default iSpring Pro keeps original quality of video in presentation. If needed you can set higher or less bitrate but it will influence output file size and video quality.
Flash Multimedia Tuning Smooth raster images
Smoothing usually enhances the quality of raster images rendering but sometimes can lead to undesirable results when the Flash movie is created for Flash Player version 8 or higher. It is recommended to set this propety to false when the target Flash player version is 8 or higher since the rendering quality of Flash Player 8 is quite good and additional smoothing makes raster images blurred.
Advanced Smart Art Processing
This feature allows getting a better quality of SmartArt objects and save the animation effects applied to them. As this option is using Clipboard, it is recommended not to use Clipboard during the iSpring conversion process. Due to technical characteristics some SmartArt objects may look or play slightly differently. In this case, the option may be turned off so that SmartArt object will be saved as raster images and animation will be lost.
Detach media content Using these options makes sense if you convert presentation into solid Flash movie. Flash movies
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separate .swf files. Video clips
Check this option if you have large video clips embedded into your presentation. Each video file will be converted into separate .flv files and this will remove the limits of .swf format.
Audio Files
In case the audio embedded into your presentation is large, it is recommended to enable this option. The audio will be saved into separate file and your Flash presentation will load faster.
7 Players 7.1 iSpring Players iSpring Pro can wrap output presentation into Flash based Player. Current version includes 10 different players, 7 of which are highly customizable. Your Flash presentation can look as in PowerPoint with a simple Navigation + Marker panel or can be wraped in the Advanced Player which contains notes, outlines, thumbnails, Pro info and references. Follow the links below to find detailed description of how you can customize a player creating unique appearance and keeping handy navigation. The players were updated with support of system fonts that improves representation of oriental characters in player templates. • Advanced Glossy • Advanced Matte • Crystal Player • Classic Player • Navigation panel • Navigation + Marker You can set custom company logo for the Lite player. Navigation + Notes player can only adjoin left or right side of the presentation. The other Banner and None players are not customizable.
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8 Presentation management 8.1 Presentation Management iSpring Pro new interface was updated with the Presentation section containing tools to manage structure and media content of your Flash presentation. There are 3 tools for presentation management: • Presentation Explorer to organize presentation structure, import media narrations and add quizzes. • Links to manage references, attachments and web links in the presentation. • Presenters to add presenters info, company logo and links to company website.
8.2 Presentation Explorer New Presentation Explorer is an efficient tool that allows you to set up a presentation structure and slide advance options, add presenters and media resources in a single window. With Presentation Explorer it's easy to add audio narration or quizzes. You can edit your presentation slide by slide or apply similar setting to a selected group of slides using Presentation Explorer toolbar or the right-click context menu.
With iSpring Presentation Explorer you can easily: • Organize Multilevel Navigation • Manage Hidden Slides • Edit Slide Titles • Assign Presenters to slides • Set Playback mode - manual or automatic • Set Slide Duration • Import Audio Narration to a slide
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8.2.1 Multilevel Navigation
You can adjust slides nesting level to organize multilevel navigation in your presentation with the slide nesting level control buttons: Available levels will increase each time you move a slide to a subsequent level. For example, when all slides of your presentation are assigned to the top level (1), you have an option to add only one nested level (2). If you assign any slide to level 2 than you can move subsequent slide to level 2 or 3 and so on. Your presentation may contain up to 8 levels in hierarchy. Also you can collapse and expand nested slides using "-" and "+" icons on the left of a top level slide. 8.2.2 Hidden Slides
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You can mark any slide as hidden double clicking its thumbnail. Hidden slides are not shown in navigation and thumbnails and skipped during presentation playback. Please note that hidden slides are still exist in you Flash presentation and can be reached via links from other slides hyperlinks or action buttons. 8.2.3 Slide Title
Titles of slides are shown in the Outline tab of Advanced, Crystal and Classic Players. By default, titles are taken from PowerPoint slide titles of the presentation. To change a slide title, double-click on it and enter a new one. The new titles will display in your Flash presentation navigation and can differ from PowerPoint slide titles. 8.2.4 Presenters
To assign a Presenter to the selected slide, double click on a Presenter photo/name and select a different one from a drop-down list of available Presenters. By default a Presenter marked as Default is added to all slides in you presentation. To change a default Presenter, click the Presenters icon on iSpring toolbar. 8.2.5 Playback mode
You can set up a slide to advance to the next one automatically after time delay, or require a user to click to advance. To change advance type click on a mouse (manual mode) or timer (automatic mode) icon. 8.2.6 Slide duration
You can set timing for automatic advance on the right of changing mode icon. Note: Slide advance time also depends on "Minimal slide duration" that can be managed in Settings tab of Publish window. Media This section allows you to manage external audio in a slide. If media has been already added to a slide, the corresponding icons are active, allowing playing audio. You can also add audio narration to a slide using the Import Audio button of the iSpring Pro toolbar. Note: iSpring Presenter allows you to add one audio per slide. You can also add a background audio for the entire presentation. Further to importing media resources, you can record audio narration with iSpring Presenter.
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8.2.7 Media - Audio
iSpring Presentation Explorer lets you import audio narration to the selected slide. To add an audio: 1. Click the Import audio narration icon to launch the Windows Explorer. 2. Choose the audio you would like to insert. iSpring Presenter supports .MP3, .WMA and .WAV audio file formats. Selected audio track starts playback automatically. To disable this option uncheck the Auto Play checkbox at the bottom of the explorer window. By default the slide duration is adjusted to the audio file duration. If you uncheck the Adjust slide duration to fit audio option, PowerPoint timings for animated slides and minimal slide duration for non-animated slides may affect slide duration and your audio may not playback in full. 3. Click Open. The audio file will be added to the selected slide. Quick managment Managment Toolbar
Use the options on the Presentation Explorer toolbar to edit a group of selected slides. These settings behave the same way as for a single slide. Please see the detailed description above.
Right-click menu
You can also manage slide or group of selected slide via context menu. Right-click in the area of the slide list to set Presenters, adjust playback mode, change slide nesting level and show/hide slides.
Presentation Background Audio Check the box to add a background audio for the entire presentation. iSpring Presenter supports .MP3, .WMA and .WAV audio file formats. To add an audio file, click the "..." button and select an audio track. You can listen to the audio clicking on the speaker icon. Check the box to loop audio during presentation playback. The audio will loop if presentation playback duration is longer than the background audio duration. 8.3 Links
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8.3.1 Links
Presentation Links manager allows you to add, edit and delete references, file attachments and web links in a Flash presentation.
Presentation Links includes 2 windows: • References to manage web references and file attachments in a Flash presentation • Web Links to link your presentation to web page or blog 8.3.2 Links - References Tab
References are external resources that you would like your audience to view during your presentation playback. You can add references of 2 types: • Web References - links to web pages • File Attachments - links to local files, like .pdf or .xls document or .jpg image. The references are available in the Reference tab of the Advanced player and in the Reference window of the Crystal player. To make them available, enable References in players using Customize button on the Publish window. To manage references: 1. Click the Links button on the iSpring toolbar. 2. Presentation Links window will launch. All references added to a presentation are accessible in the References tab.
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To open a selected reference in a new browser window, check the box New Window. To edit and delete reference, use the icons on the right of the References window. You can also test your references accessibility clicking a reference file path or URL under Location option. For more effective management you can rearrange the references clicking the Type, Title, Location, New Window options to sort the references according to desired attribute. To delete all references from your presentation, use Remove All References button. You will be asked to confirm the deletion. 3. When you have finished with your references, click OK to save your updates. To quit without saving, click Cancel. To add a Web Reference 1. Click Links on iSpring toolbar, Presentation Links window will open. 2. Click the Add Web Reference button at the bottom of the window opened.
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3. Enter a Title for a web link. It will display in the Reference screen of the player. 4. Enter a web address of the web page, blog or other web resource. The URL field is prefilled with "http//:", please don#t omit this part of URL in your link. 5. Check "Open in new browser" window option to if you want to open each web reference in a new browser window. 6. When you finished with your settings, click Ok to save a reference. To exit without saving changes, click Cancel. To add a File Attachment 1. Click Links on iSpring toolbar, Presentation Links window will launch. 2. Click the Add File Attachment button at the bottom of the window opened. 3. The Explorer window is automatically launched. Find and select the file you want to add and click Open.
4. Add File Attachment window will be opened and prefilled with descriptions of the file
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you've chose. You can select a different file clicking the ":" button on the right of the Path field. The Title that is displayed in the Reference screen of the player is taken your file name by default. You can easily edit it and enter the title you#d like to show your viewers. 5. Check "Open in new browser" window option to if you want to open each file in a new browser window. This option makes sense only for files that are viewable via internet browser, e.g. .jpg or .pdf files. 6. When you finished with your settings, click Ok to save an attachment. To exit without saving changes, click Cancel. 8.3.3 Links - Web Links
The Web Links tab allows you to link your Flash presentation to web pages. When you create a hyperlink to a page the hyperlink destination is represented by the path to a web resource (e.g. http://www.ispringsolutions.com). To manage web links in a Flash presentation: 1. Click the Links button on the iSpring toolbar. 2. Select the Web Links tab on the Presentation Links window opened.
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3. Set up links settings to configure links for your Flash presentation. Hyperlinks target This option allows you to manage all external links in you presentation. External links are hyperlinks to some external resources, not a slide in presentation. You can set up how hyperlink destination should be opened: in the same browser window where presentation is displayed, in a new browser window or in a parent window. Mouse click hyperlink Check this option to open a web page or blog on a mouse click. When published, any click on the presentation area will open the specified web page or file. This feature is useful for creation of Flash banners and trade shows. If the option is enabled, type manually the URL (address) of web page or a file path. By default the path is prefilled with "http://". Be sure to keep it in your web link.
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Check the Open link in new browser window box if you want to open the destination web resource in a new browser window. Flash presentation redirect Check this option to open automatically a specified web page after presentation playback is completed. If the option is enabled, type manually the URL address of web page. By default the path is prefilled with "http://". Be sure to keep it for your web link. Check the Open link in new browser window box if you want to open the destination web resource in a new browser window. 4. Click OK to save your updates. To quit without saving changes, click Cancel. 8.4 Presenters 8.4.1 Presenters
Presenters# manager allows you to add, edit and delete presenters in your Flash presentation and manage company info. Presenter and company info are available in Advanced Crystal, Advanced Matte, Crystal and Classic players. Please, be sure to enable presenter info option within a player. Since version 4.1 iSpring allows to specify custom company logo for each presenter. Also you can set a common logo that is applied to all presenters by default.
Presenter manager includes 2 windows: • Presenters to manage presenters. • Company to add company logo and URL to company web site. 8.4.2 Presenters manager - Presenters Tab
Presenters Tab allows you to add, edit or delete presenters and set up a default presenter that will be automatically added to your Flash presentation. All information about presenters is stored in your presentation. So it will be available if editing a PPT presentation on another computer or sending it via email. Presenter info is also
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stored on your local computer so when you open a presentation you can always update the presenter to the latest one. And being stored in your computer presenter?s info can be updated and added to any presentation. And being stored in your computer presenter#s info can be updated and added to any presentation.
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Edit Presenter buttons to update information about a presenter. To delete a presenter, select a presenter and click the Delete Presenter button. You can specify a Default Presenter that will be automatically assigned to all slides in your Flash presentation. Select a presenter from your list and check the Default box. To assign different presenter to each slide in presentation, use Presentation Explorer. To add Presenter or edit Presenter details: 1. Click the Presenters icon on the iSpring toolbar. The Presenters window will launch. 2. Click the Add Presenter button to add a new presenter. To update info on an existing presenter select a presenter and click the Edit Presenter button. 3. Enter the details into the corresponding fields of the Edit Presenter Info window. Name is the only required filed. If you leave any other field blank, it will not display in the Presenter info during Flash presentation preview or playback.
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You can enter the following info about presenter: Presenter info Name
The first and the last name of the presenter.
Title
The title of the presenter (e.g. Project Manager).
E-mail
The contact e-mail address of the presenter.
Web
The Presenter#s web site address
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Info
Brief info about the presenter, work experience, success story or any information you consider valuable to the viewers.
Photo
Click the Browse button to add or change a presenter#s photo. iSpring supports all most popular image file formats as .JPG, .PNG, .GIF, .BMP, .WFM, .EMF. The best presenter photo dimensions are 62x82 for Advanced player, 100x130 for Crystal player and 60x40 for Classic player. If the photo is not fit the dimensions iSpring automatically adjusts photo to fit the width/height of the photo area in a player.
Company logo
Use presenter-specific company logo Check the box to set custom company logo for a specific presenter. Click Browse, navigate and select an image file in .JPG, .PNG, .GIF, .BMP, .WMF or .EMF format. You can also assign custom link with the selected company logo. A company logo and web site that apply to all presenters without specific logo could be set in the Default Company tab of the Presenters window.
8.4.3 Presenter manager - Company Tab
Company Tab allows you to brand your Flash presentation with your company logo and assign a link to your company web site.
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1. Click Presenters icon on the iSpring toolbar. 2. Select the Company tab on the Presenters window launched. 3. Customize the following options. Company info Company Logo
Click the Browse button and select your company logo. iSpring supports all popu.JPG, .PNG, .GIF, .BMP, .WFM, .EMF image file formats.
Company Web Site
Enter your company#s website URL and your viewers will be able to get to your website clicking on your company logo. The field is prefilled with "http://", please be sure to keep it when adding website URL.
9 Narration 9.1 Narration section iSpring Pro gives you an opportunity to deliver audio narrations to your audience. There are two ways of providing your presentation with narrations: importing existing audios or recording new ones right within your PowerPoint. Easy to handle. Easy to synchronize. • Record audio • Import audio • Synchronize
9.2 Audio Recording You can record audio narrations either reading aloud your text notices or any other verbal announcement and synchronize it with your slideshow. Just click Record Audio button to launch Record Audio Narration and start playing.
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To record Audio: 1. Click Record Audio in the Narration area in your iSpring toolbar to launch Record Audio Narration window.
2. Choose the slide you would like to record audio narration to or the one to start recording at from the drop-down slide list. 3. Click Start record to start recording audio narration. 4. Click Ok to apply the changes or Cancel to quit Record Audio narrations without saving any changes. How to record audio: Drop-down Slide list
Choose the slide you want to record audio to or to start recording at
Start record / Next animation/ Next slide/ Stop
Click to start audio recording/ Click to advance to the next animation/ Click to advance to the next slide/ Click to stop
Show notes
Tick this option to show text notices for the slide
Process this slide only
Tick this option to process one chosen slide only
Prompt to overwrite existing audio
Tick this option to be additionally asked if you do
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want to rerecord an existing audio Settings
Click to select audio recording device
Resync
Click to resynchronize the recorded audio with a slide(s)
Play/pause button
Click to play/pause recorded audio
Stop button
Click to stop recorded audio
Left arrow button
Click to go to the previous slide
Right arrow button
Click to go to the next slide
9.3 Audio Importing Audio always adds up to an expressive slideshow. Click Import Audio to embed and synchronize audio tracks in your presentation.
To import Audio: 1. Click Import Audio in the Narration area in your iSpring toolbar to launch Open window
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2. Choose an audio file that you would like to add to your presentation NOTE: Supported audio files formats are WAV, MP3, WMA. 3. Select the slide you would like your audio to start at from a Start slide drop-down list 4. Click Open to import the selected audio or Cancel to quit without saving any changes How to import audio:
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File name
Shows the audio file that is intended to be added
Files of types
Displays audio files of selected types only
Adjust slide duration to fit audio
Tick this option for an automatic adjustment of slide timing in accordance with audio duration
Auto play
Tick this option for a preliminary playback of imported audio
Play/ Stop
Click to play the selected audio/ Click to stop the playing audio
Start slide drop-down list
Choose the slide that the audio starts at
Open
Click to import the chosen audio file
Cancel
Quit the Open window without saving any changes
Note! To add presentation background audio use Presentation Explorer. 9.4 Synchronization Perfect playback has to be flawlessly timed and easy-to-handle. Make your slideshow play smoothly with the Sync option.
To synchronize your presentation narration: 1. Click in the Narration area in your iSpring toolbar to launch Synchronize presentation narration window.
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2. Choose the necessary slide from the slide drop-down list. 3. Click Start sync./ Stop to start/stop synchronization process. 4. Click Ok/Cancel to save/dismiss the synchronization. How to synchronize: Drop-down list
Choose the slide you want to synchronize
Start sync/ next animation / next slide
Click to start synchronization process/ to advance to the next animation/ to advance to the next slide
Show notes
Tick this option to show text notices for the slide
Process this slide only
Tick this option to process one chosen slide only
Left arrow button
Click to go to the previous slide
Right arrow button
Click to go to the next slide
10 Insert 10.1 Insert
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iSpring Pro lets you insert external Flash movies and YouTube videos into your presentations as easy as you can insert images or audios.
The "Insert" section provides you with the following functions: • Insert Flash option allows you to insert a Flash object into the slide • Insert YouTube option allows you to insert video clip from YouTube.com web site 10.2 Insert Flash Insert Flash Window allows you to insert external Flash (.swf) movies into your PowerPoint slides easily. You can also add Flash movies to Master slides of your presentation as to any other slide of your presentation.
To insert a Flash movie clip: 1. On the iSpring toolbar, click the Flash button. 2. Choose a Flash file to be inserted into the presentation. Only .SWF file format is supported. You can insert only one Flash movie per slide. Please Note: iSpring doesn#t support Flash files previously converted from PowerPoint with iSpring. 3. Click the Open button and you will see first frame of Flash movie placed on a slide. PowerPoint 2007 doesn#t allow embedding Flash movie into PPT presentation due to security restrictions. It only creates a link to a Flash file. So if you desire to move PowerPoint presentation to another computer, be sure to copy your Flash file as well. You will need to create a folder for Flash file with the same name as on an original computer or insert Flash file once again. After conversion to a solid Flash file, all inserted Flash resources will be embedded into your Flash presentation. On the other hand if you have a lot of external Flash files or a big Flash file inserted in your PPT presentation we recommend storing them in a separate resource folder (use the Detach Embedded Flash movies option).
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10.3 YouTube video insert iSpring makes it possible to insert a YouTube video into your presentation.
Note 1: Internet connection is essential for YouTube videos transmission within your presentation. Note 2: your videos should have public access and be viewable for everyone. To insert a YouTube video: 1. Click YouTube button in the Insert section of the iSpring panel in your PowerPoint. 2. Open www.youtube.com in your browser; find a necessary video clip to later insert it into your presentation. When you are done searching for a video clip, copy its URL from the URL option on the right of a video clip or address line of your browser window. 3. Paste a preferred YouTube video URL into the Video Link blank field and click Preview to view a clip.
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4. Tick "Turn off automatic slide transition for this slide" to cancel automatic advance of a YouTube video containing slide to a next one. 5. Click OK to insert YouTube video into your slide.
11 Support We are trying to develop our product to the maximum ease of use. But in case you have problems using iSpring, please first consult the documentation provided with the product and try to find the competent answers to your questions in the iSpring FAQ base.
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If your question remains unanswered, please get in touch with us through online feedback form. We will be happy to give you our helping hand and to find a quick solution to your request. We appreciate any comments, concerns, kudos or critique. Share your opinion on the service you have received when using our product. Feel free to send us your feedback at support page on www.ispringsolutions.com. Also now you can post your questions and opinions, exchange ideas and discuss technical issues on iSpring Community Forum.
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All users of iSpring are entitled to absolutely free and prompt technical support. We stop providing support only to refunded copies' users. Free Technical Support includes: • Unlimited free patches for stability-related bugs • The iSpring online knowledge base • Email questions that will be answered within five business days To get the most benefit out of iSpring Pro, sign up for a Premium Technical Support or Consulting Service and receive prompt and personalized service from the iSpring Support Team. Premium Technical Support includes: • Free iSpring upgrades including major releases and patches • Unlimited telephone support • Email questions answered within one business day • 20% discount on iSpring Consulting services Contact us for details about Premium Technical Support and Consulting Services.
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