Feature Highlights

Capturing is easy and quick

  • Automatically capture screens whenever you type or click, so you can create training materials and simulations easily only by operating on the target application
  • Blazing fast: You can’t even notice any differences in application performance while ActivePresenter is capturing
  • Automatically create appropriate actions to simulate your real operations
  • Automatically insert predefined balloon to annotate each operation
  • Filter multiple keyboard strokes based on context
  • Full-screen capture mode
  • Define dimensions and position of capturing window

Easy to use editor

  • Many types of annotations: Balloons, Text Captions, Images, Highlights, Hints, Audio
  • Apply visual effects for annotation objects
  • Secure your recorded projects with password
  • Insert unlimited design objects per slide
  • Unlimited Undo/Redo capabilities
  • Manage slides easily with slide thumbnails
  • Drag & Drop editing
  • Insert customizable balloons, highlights, hints or text captions
  • Adjust object color, translucency, z-index, and borders
  • Set individual timing and display duration of objects
  • Select/Insert/Edit/Delete multiple objects
  • Adjust slide playback time
  • Slide zoom in/out
  • Import external images (JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, PNM, PCX, XPM, CUR, ICO, ANI) as slides or objects
  • Import from Powerpoint slides
  • Insert blank slides to create a presentation
  • Define project’s and per slide’s background color

Audio

  • Import external audio files (WAV, MP3, OGG, AAC, WMA, ...)
  • Built-in audio recorder
  • Built-in audio player
  • Export audio to external files
  • Advanced built-in audio editor with many convenient features: select, copy, cut, paste, delete and merge audio ranges with mouse clicks, record and insert directly at insertion point.

Interactivity

  • Add branching capabilities based on viewer’s input
  • Insert action: Go to predefined slide, send email, link to webpage, or execute JavaScript
  • Define mouse event: Left click, Right click, Double click
  • Define keyboard event
  • Define text entry boxes
  • Score viewer responses

Many output formats

  • Export to Video (WMV, AVI, MP4)
  • Export to Flash Video (FLV, SWF)
  • Export to Adobe PDF
  • Export to Images (JPEG, PNG)
  • Export to Microsoft Word (requires MS Word 2000 or higher)
  • Export to Microsoft Excel (requires MS Excel 2000 or higher)
  • Import from Microsoft Powerpoint Presentations(requires MS Powerpoint 2000 or higher)
  • Export to Microsoft Powerpoint (requires MS Powerpoint 2000 or higher)
  • Export to HTML Slideshow
  • Export to AJAX Interactive Simulations
  • Export to Adobe Flash Interactive Simulations

Internationalization

  • Built-in unicode support
  • Multiple languages: English, German, Spanish and growing...

 

 

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Free Edition

Free Edition is free of charge, as its name implies. However, it still has almost all the features as in the Standard or Professional Edition, except the export capability.

With this free edition, you can easily create video demonstration for your software within minutes.

View a demo

See the Features Comparison for more details



Standard Edition

If you only want to create manuals, handouts, or documentation with ActivePresenter then the Standard Edition is the proper choice.

In addition to the capability to export recorded project to Image series or Video as in the Free Edition, you can also export to popular document formats, such as:

  • FlashVideo (FLV)
  • Microsoft Word Documents (DOC)
  • Microsoft Excel Spreadsheets (XLS)
  • Adobe PDF
  • HTML Slideshow

Compared to the Professional Edition, the Standard Edition only lacks the capability to export to interactive AJAX/Flash simulations and Powerpoint presentations.

Watch a demo HTML Slideshow

Please see the Features Comparison for more details.

Professional Edition

Besides the capability to create Video (AVI, WMV, MPEG4/MP4), FlashVideo (FLV), HTML, or other document formats (PDF, DOC, XLS), Professional Edition also bring you amazing capability to create interactive AJAX/Flash simulations and Microsoft Powerpoint presentations.

 

Watch an output demonstration

 

Please see the Features Comparison for more details.