ViewletBuilder

Screen capture product that reproduces the movement of a cursor enabling the creation of Flash tutorials or simulations that mirror the way that a product or web site works. Available for Microsoft Windows and Mac.

ViewletBuilder is a screen capture product that reproduces the movement of a cursor enabling the creation of Flash tutorials or simulations that mirror the way that a product or web site works. Use calls out, notes, inter-activity and audio narration and add Flash files with actions associated to events. Publish finished tutorials as small, secure Flash files that can be delivered over the internet or packaged as executable files to be sent vial e-mail, uploaded to an LMS or burned on CDs.

Viewlet Builder is available in the following editions:

• ViewletBuilder Professional: Allows you to quickly create software demos, simulations, live screencasts and highly interactive courses.
• ViewletBuilder Enterprise: Allows you to quickly create PowerPoint projects, software simulations, live screencasts, quizzes, surveys and highly interactive courses.
  

Key Features:

• Live Capture / Screen Recorder: Capture anything on your screen with Live Capture. A new mode that captures your desktop and audio narration in real-time. We've married what you love about Smart Capture with the speed of Video Capture to allow you to create compelling content quickly and easily.
• Video Output: Along with SWF you can now publish your Viewlets to Flash Video (FLV). Video output gives you greater flexibility in distributing your Viewlets such as converting to other video formats or uploading to YouTube. H.264 support for the iPad/iPhone is offered via (MP4).
• Embedded FLV Movie Support: We now support both SWF and FLV embedded videos and Flash animations.
• Publish to YouTube: Publishing your Viewlets directly to YouTube is the quickest and easiest way to reach a mass audience.
• Zooming and Panning: Our new Zoom Zone tool allows you to zoom or pan to draw the users attention to areas you want to emphasise.
• Slide Transitions: Add more polish to your presentations with transitions between your slides.
• Popout Highlights: Highlight an area with an animation that pops out a section of the background frame or video.
• Highlights, Mattes and Arrows: Three great ways to add emphasis to your project.
• Master Slides / Master Layers: Easily add and manage elements across large collections of slides.
• Cascading Stylesheets: Create any number of custom styles and apply them in a much more flexible manner.
• Macros: Speed up your editing by running one of our macros or write your own.
• Cool New ViewletSkins: The Qarbon and Qista ViewletSkins have a fresh new look and are fully customisable.
• Improved Printing: New Page Layout Options for Printing and Export to Word / PDF. The Question Summary Layout option is great for turning your Viewlets into offline assessments.
• Improved Publishing: Redesigned to make it easy to output to SWF, FLV, ViewletCentral, PDF, Word, HTML, Images, CD, SCORM, AICC, FTP or your own custom locations.
• New File Format: Big performance gains in opening and saving your projects in this new XML based format.
• Other Features: Drop Shadows, Rotate Objects, Multi-Line Buttons, Color Picker, Animated Mouse Clicks, Slide Splitting, Project Validation.

ViewletBuilder - Features

ViewletBuilder's Patented Screen Capture Process automatically reproduces the movement of your cursor, allowing you to create Flash tutorials or simulations that exactly mirror the way your product or web site works.

Instead of spending time on the technical aspects of creation, now you can spend more time being creative by using callouts, notes, interactivity and audio narration. You can add Flash files and have various actions associated to events making your output more engaging.

Publish your finished tutorials as small, secure Flash files that can be delivered over the Internet or packaged as executable files to be sent vial email or burned on CDs. Better yet, publish to ViewletCentral with one click! ViewletCentral will provide real time statistics on your Viewlet usage.

General Features

Lighting Speed Creation

• Smart Capture with Automatic Annotations
  No hotkey needed! Screenshots will automatically be taken whenever changes are detected and annotations will be added describing actions.

Increase Productivity with Time Saving Tools

• Style sheets
  Save valuabtle time and create your own style. Predetermine every element of your project - the color, the font, and font size for balloons and/notes and apply them to entire projects or individual slides!
• Format Painter
  Quickly copy styles from one object and, with one click, apply that format to any text object throughout your project.
• Search and Replace
  You no longer have to search slide by slide. Do it in one quick swoop! Search and replace a word or phrase within your entire project!

Gain Control And Flexibility

• Sound Functionality
  Import MP3 files and/or add a background soundtrack to your Viewlet. With ViewletBuilder6 you can now associate sounds to objects not just the slide!
• Timeline View
  New advanced timeline allows you to control the timing of every slide with a zoom feature that lets you get 100% accuracy.

Add Creativity With Ease

• Rollover Areas
  Add Rollover areas that when triggered can display another object. Great way to display hints and/or definitions.
• Customizable Buttons
  Want to add navigation or have a variety of actions on a slide? Its easy now. Insert customizable buttons to your project and associate various actions to each one.
• Events and Actions
  Multiple actions like play Viewlet, play sound or play events like on click, on rollover and roll out.
• Import SWF Files
  Add animations to any of your slides. You can now Embed and playback SWF on a slide or assign it as an action to an event.
• Creative ViewletSkins
  New ViewletSkins now come with the option of having a table of contents and status bar. Choose from a variety of styles youre sure to find one that suits you!

New Features in Version 6.0

• New! Timing Links
  Timing Links have now been added to help maintain the timing between elements which will speed up authoring time!
• New! Zoom feature
  Zoom feature added to Slide View. Zoom to fit or zoom in/out with 8 different zoom levels.
• New! Easy to use icons
  Easy to use icons have been added to drop down menus.
• New! Preview sound
  Preview sound within the application
• New! Alignment tools
  Alignment tools to ensure correct placement of a single object.
• New! Sound icons
  Enhanced sound icons.
• New! Slide background and Animations
  Slide background and Animations have been combined into a single concept to make it easier to understand and to allow for editing of animation frames.

NEW ENTERPRISE ONLY FEATURES!

• New!PowerPoint Integration
  Create engaging content by importing Microsoft PowerPoint (PPT) slides! Add objects and sound converting ordinary projects into extraordinary eLearning objects. Repurpose exisiting content!
• New! Quiz Questions
  Designated for questions that have a right or wrong answer. Viewletbuilder Enterprise allows for a variety of different types of feedback associated with right or wrong, and even incomplete. Whether you want just a visual text or image display or even a movie and sound to play, Viewletbuilder allows you to decide and create with ease.
• New!Survey Questions
  Designated for questions that have no right or wrong answer. Using survey questions you can learn more about your customers and their needs.

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ViewletBuilder - System Requirements

System Requirements

• For Windows 98/98SE/2000/XP/Vista platforms
• Intel P4, Intel Centrino, Intel Xeon, or Intel Core Duo (or compatible)
• 512+ MB RAM (1GB Recommended)
• 800x600 minimum screen resolution (1024x768 recommend)
• Internet or Phone connection required for activation

Viewlet File Format Supoort

Flash Output Format

• Flash 8

Print Output Format

• local and network

Graphic Output/Export Formats

• PDF
• JPEG
• TIFF
• BMP
• PNG

Graphic Import Formats

• PNG
• GIF
• JPEG
• BMP
• TIFF

Audio Import Formats

• MP3
• AIF
• OGG
• WAV
• AU

Language Support

ViewletBuilder is available in 9 languages:

• Chinese (Simplified)
• Chinese (Traditional)
• English
• French
• German
• Italian
• Japanese
• Korean
• Spanish