Instant Demo Software Updates

Instant Demo v2.00

Sat, 18 Oct 2003 14:40:30 +1100

Instant Demo v2.00 is now available

New features:
Sound recording and voice annotation.
Streaming playback of movie content.
Additional annotated text styles.
More hotspot styles.
New Flash effects.
Improved movie compression.
Improved color quality.

Instant Demo v3.00

Thu, 15 Jan 2004 14:40:30 +1100

Instant Demo v3.00 is now available

New Professional features:
Hyperlinks on hotspots and frames.
Annotated text and hotspots may span multiple frames.
In-movie hotspot and frame navigation (non-linear playback).
Individual frame effects (fade in/out, highlight).
Mouse triggered hotspot and talk bubble animation.
Plus Standard edition enhancements.

New Standard features:
True color recording and playback.
Automatically select active Window for recording.
User Interface Enhancements.
Hide deleted frames.
Flash movies can be up to 50 minutes in length.
Commence recording with Pause hotkey.

Instant Demo v3.04

Sat, 4 Sep 2004 14:40:30 +1100

Instant Demo v3.04 is now available

New features:
Combined service pack upgrade (includes WindowsXP SP2 enhancements).
Edit recorded mouse path using click and drag.
Improvements in sound synchronization.
Improvements in color quality for resized movies.
Improvements in Flash animation rendering.

Instant Demo v4.00

Thu, 28 Oct 2004 14:40:30 +1100

Instant Demo v4.00 is now available

New features:
Combine multiple movie project files.
Pan capture region during recording (pro version).
Image hotspots with fade in/out (pro version).
Add custom author information to playback controls (pro version).
New frame effects: cross-fade and transitional fades (pro version).
Programmatically control a recording session (pro version).
Set frame delay for multiple frames.
Mouse highlight and drop shadows.
Customize mouse click size.
Permanent removal of deleted frames.

Instant Demo v5.00

Fri, 28 Oct 2005 14:40:30 +1100

Instant Demo v5.00 is now available

New features:
Support for desktop resolutions up to 3200 x 3072 pixels.
Capture transparent or layered windows effects (e.g., animated help assistants).
Custom Flash player that supports true full screen presentations.
MP3 sound compression.
High quality sound processing enables studio quality sound from a standard PC microphone.
Sound recordings fully synchronized to captured video.
Create SCORM 1.2 resource packages.
Capture video from applications that use hardware overlay.
Internal 64bit file structure supports videos up to 18000 GB in size.
Pause movie when following an in-movie URL (pro version).
Improvements in Flash exporting options.

Instant Demo v6.00

Tue, 21 Nov 2006 14:40:30 +1100

Instant Demo v6.00 is now available

New features:
Improved movie compression.
New Glasso style playback controls.
Playback controls can be positioned at top or bottom of Flash movie.
Streaming progress indicator in Flash playback scroll bar.
Improved sound recording options and audio monitor.
Talk bubble spell check.
Quickly find mouse clicks with the editor scroll bar.
Linear Flash playback using Go To Frame (pro version).
Go To Frame Stop option (pro version).
Set default background color in Flash output.
Change font for all talk bubbles.
Set default fonts.
Instant Demo Flash player About menu customization.
Improved audio synchronization - combine movies, insert and delete frames, insert talk bubbles, insert hotspots and alter frame delays without loss of sound synchronization.

Instant Demo v6.10

Tue, 29 May 2007 14:40:30 +1000

Instant Demo v6.10 is now available

New features:
Enhancements for Windows Vista.
Apply video edits to multiple frames with transparency.
Capture hidden mouse activity.
Improved international language support.
Import AVI video.
Record across multiple screens.
Flash player enhancements - right mouse button on hotspots and play from a URL.

Instant Demo v6.50

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:40:30 +1000

Instant Demo v6.50 is now available

New features:
Certified for Windows Vista.
New automatic callout text navigation. Allows the viewer to easily control the pace of your presentation.
High quality streaming Flash presentations can be many hours in length.
Publish directly via ftp to your web site.
New Menus with over 70 items and more than 30 keyboard shortcuts.
New advanced options.

Instant Demo v7.00

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:40:30 +1000

Instant Demo v7.00 is now available

New features:
New Zoom and Pan frame effects. Capture your entire desktop and replay at any screen size with full visual clarity (pro version only).
Zoom and Pan can automatically follow your mouse movement. Allows you to create a zoom and pan presentation with minimal editing.
New Microsoft Speech for annotated text. Let Microsoft Mike or Mary narrate your movie. Instant Demo also supports all other high quality text to speech engines that use the Windows Speech interface.
Convert your Flash movie to high quality AVI video. Instant Demo supports all major AVI video compression formats. Allows you to publish to Blu-ray / HDTV, DVD, YouTube and Mobile.
Background sound with automatic fade in/out volume control. Instant Demo automatically does the hard work of mixing your voice narration and background music. Create a professional narration and music sound track with the click of a button (pro version only).
Automatic volume gain for all sound files. Provides a professional sound stage for your presentation.
Two new hotspot styles: Highlight and Flash Movie. Embed your own Shockwave Flash files into your presentation. Add additional functionality using the thousands of Flash objects available on the Internet (pro version only).
New option to automatically focus on the active window during recording. Save time and effort during the screen capture process.
Real time video compression whilst recording. Record for longer using less disk space.
New editing features such as instant bookmarks and return to previously edited frame. Streamlines the editing process and improves your productivity.

Instant Demo v7.50

Mon, 28 Jul 2009 14:40:30 +1000

Instant Demo Screen Recorder v7.50 is now available with TrakMouse(tm) technology

Instant Demo v7.50 includes the following new features:

- Single click TrakMouse(tm) technology. In the Instant Demo editor you can automatically zoom and pan your presentation to follow the mouse and the action, keeping menus and text at full size and clarity for the target display.
- Automatic chapter display. Add chapter titles and Instant Demo will create an animated chapter index for your presentation.
- Enhancements to the Flash playback controls including time position, volume and alternate button configurations.
- Additional input sound file formats: WMA, MP3, MIDI, OGG, FLAC, AC3 and many others.
- Option to synchronize background sound to the end of your presentation. Add a professional ending to your presentation without the need to edit the length of your background sound.
- Many enhancements to editor performance and export quality.

Instant Demo v8.00

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 14:40:30 +1000

NetPlay Software Introduces Screencast EventLine Editing with Instant Demo Studio v8.0

Instant Demo v8.00 introduces a new powerful Studio Editor that enhances your productivity and allows easy maintenance of your presentations. The studio editor uses an intuitive visual interface and provides many performance enhancements:

- Multiple Eventline editing.
- Studio editor is fully integrated with the Instant Demo classic editor - use both editing views at once.
- Export to Flash or AVI from any eventline.
- Clips can be copied, cut, resized and trimmed.
- Drag and drop/paste clips anywhere on the eventline.
- Drag and drop/paste clips between eventlines.
- Drag and drop whole eventlines.
- Combine individual projects into a single studio project.
- Full Undo/Redo of Studio clip edits.
- Studio editor appearance can be customized in size and color.
- Multiple language support for talk bubbles.
- Create multiple language versions of your presentation in a single eventline.
- Full Screen Button in playback controls for true Full Screen presentations in your web browser.

Instant Demo v8.50

Mon, 14 Feb 2012 14:40:30 +1000

Instant Demo V8.5 Introduces New Productivity Enhancements for Creating Windows Screencasts

Instant Demo v8.5 offers a suite of enhancements for improved productivity and to take advantage of today�s modern PC architecture. A major enhancement in v8.5 is support for multi-core processors. Screen capture, editing, and encoding now all utilize the power of multiple CPU hardware. This provides higher screen capture frame rates, smoother and faster editing, and best of all, fast export to industry standard video formats. All of which create productivity gains for the author.

New features in v8.5 include:

-Support for multi-core processors. Screen capture, editing, and encoding now all utilize the power of multiple CPU hardware.
-Support for direct export to many more industry standard video formats.
-Improved compression of raw screen capture video allows you to record full high definition screencasts for longer.
-New animation effects for annotated text. Fade, zoom and slide your message to help grab the viewers attention.
-Support for images with transparency. Add a professional logo or button image with drop shadows to your presentation.
-Multiple publishing web site support. Store multiple web site locations with each project. Easily publish to each site from a drop down list.
-Improved support for live web cam video and processing of real life video.

A full list of new features can be found at http://www.instantdemo.com/releases.htm

Instant Demo v8.5 is available as a free upgrade to v8.x customers.