ActivePresenter - Create software demos & simulations instantly!

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...