September 17, 2007 – (HOSTSEARCH.COM) – Version 6.0 of Demo Builder (http://www.demo-builder.com/) has been launched and the new version of the presentations solution offers a range of enhancements that produce “better-than-live” results, it was announced recently. According to the developers, the new version offers “words and pictures together with sound, full motion recording, interactivity and even AVI video clips” and enables “even novice users to quickly create professional-looking, interactive flash movies to demonstrate products and software applications”.
“What happens is, you start to get demos that are even better-than-live presentations,” explained Dan Tatomir, CEO and co-founder of Tanida, Inc., the company that created Demo Builder. “Better-than-live means you can use your best people to build flash tutorials, complete with screen shots, live motion and more. You can edit scenes to make sure the demonstration is crystal clear, then let people watch it as often as they need to understand and use your application or product. You get a demo of virtually the same quality as live instruction, which can be viewed over and over, or sent out on demand to people in many different locations -- something you can’t do with live instructors.”
Demo Builder captures how you use an application, and automatically combines those interactions into a movie with annotations, cursor moves, voice-overs, animations, user interactions, and more. The movie can be viewed in any web browser and distributed as a self-running executable. Moreover, the Demo Builder interface is highly intuitive, enabling even novice users to start producing high quality demos almost immediately. The solution is very good for software developers who need to create computer-based tutorials for their applications but do not want to learn a complex authoring tool or outsource development.
Enhancements to Version 6.0 include frame-rate-variable, full-motion video recording to capture drag-and-drop and other actions and turn them into animations, easy importing of existing AVI format movies into your movie as fully editable scenes, merging or splitting of scenes with just a couple of mouse clicks, full editing of cursor motions to create complex, and custom cursor moves. The solution also allows users to place marks anywhere in a movie where you can add new actions, repeat previous ones, or move back and forth between scenes and the ability to "lock" objects in a scene so they cannot be edited or moved accidentally.
“Demo Builder’s clear and simple interface, combined with its many automated functions – such as annotations and dialog balloons – literally lets first time users start producing professional-looking flash movies in just minutes,” added Mr. Tatomir. “We also offer fully-licensed copies of Demo Builder for reviewers, or for companies wanting to offer it as a contest prize.”
