Here a quick update on Netviewer Present:

 

1. New Release rolled out 27.11.2008

The following main improvements have been done:

-         PDF upload possible

-         systemcheck integrated in Present -> users get information if & why they can´t get access to Live-Presentations or Recordings
    (possible reasons: necessary Ports closed or behind proxy)

-         faster testing of all possible ports to get into Presentations or recordings

-         new recording process implemented (see below)

-         finetuning & bugfixing

-         waiting room”: detailed information if you click on planned presentations or E-Mail invitations before Live-Presentation is supposed to be on air.

 

2. Update on recordings

The longer the duration of recordings is, the more important are scrolling functions (pause, fast forward, rewind).

This is why we decided to implement the following recording process:

a)       Recordings < 5 min
Recording will be in Live-Quality, but without scrolling

b)       Recordings > 5 min
Recording will be captured. Recording have scrolling functions but lower quality.

 

3. Outlook

Major next features under development are

a) higher PDF quality in live sessions and recordings (normal screen and fullscreen)

b) waiting room part II: direct access from waiting room to live presentation as soon as live presentation is started

 

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we did broadcast another event with Netviewer Present, the VDI Conference in Baden-Baden.

We are extremely happy that everything worked fine, except that 2 presentations were swapped without warning. That did bring some adrenalin in our venes because we had to switch to another presentation in the Present Livestudio within seconds…

One of the biggest issues on event coverage is still the light, because most of the time the moderator moves. Very often the moderators walks out of the light into the shade. It´s difficult for us to avoid that because the lightning is done by the local organization.

VDI was very happy with the result of the broadcasting and we talk already of broadcasting another event together in April.

Here is a link to one of the recorded VDI sessions:

http://www.vdi-wissensforum.de/index.php?id=1453

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Two weeks ago, we were at the do it. conference in Stuttgart. We were curious about what would expect us behind the motto “where creativity meets technology”.

Therefore, we participated at the opening speech of Klaus Haasis (director of MFG Baden Württemberg). He talked about seven trends for the digital future. After that, we visited the “trends of online communication” panel. The most interesting presentation for us was the one from Prof. Dr. Ralf Schengber (Uni Münster). He introduced community marketing to us. Really, well worth seeing him in action! Also thrilling was the discourse of René Marius Köhler, the young CEO of fahrrad.de. He told us how he build up his company and how to grow successfully.

In order to give you the chance to participate as well, we streamed some of the (German speaking) presentations with Netviewer Present. You can see them here.

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we have rolled-out a new release of Netviewer Present yesterday.

Major improvement is better video-quality in Live-Presentations.

Further our team was working on finetuning and bugfixing. Most known bugs should be fixed now. If you experience any bug we are happy about your feedback.

Outlook: We work on PDF Upload as main new feature to be released soon.

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As you propably noticed we faced some problems in the latest live streamings and the resulting recordings.

With Version 1.0 of Netviewer Present we switched to a new recording technology.

Unfortunately the new recording technology doesn´t meet our expectations due to the following disadvantages:

- quality of recording is lower then Live Presentation due to converter

- recordings are only available long time after Live Presentation (up to several hours)

- Recordings of more then 15 minutes must be converted manually

- Recordings don´t start immediately after you press play (can take up to several minutes)

This is why we decided to switch back to the old recording technology.

However this will need resources and time to develop and implement this technology and will happen in 2 steps.

Release 10.10. (today)

- Recordings will start immediately after you press play

Release 13.11.

Switchback to old recording technology

All above mentioned disadvantages are gone.

Recordings will be in same quality as the Live Presentation and be instantly available.

Scrolling functions (fast forward, pause) will not be available any more.

We decided to post this issue in the blog to reach as many of you as possible and let you know that this is the main development focus in the moment.

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We are already looking forward to the major release next week.

Netviewer Present will come in a completely new design. This makes the integration in websites even easier.

Technically we switch to flex technology. Our developer promise that they can develop even faster in the future compared to flash technology. We´ll find out

Main feature updates are:

- scrolling in on demand and recordings

- reporting function for the moderator

So everybody here is extremely busy to make sure, that the launch next week will be successfull.

On October, 1st we already broadcast the Scope08 Congress with the new version.

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Wouldn’t it be great to have a tool to create your own live Web shows easily? No Problem with Netviewer Present!

Netviewer Present is the newest product from the web conferencing provider Netviewer in Germany. Presentations, videos and interviews could be created in a very easy and smooth way - absolutely perfect for bloggers!

Within this blog we want to broadcast from different events, show examples about ‘how to use Netviewer Present in different ways’ and present actual topics out of web 2.0 and discuss them with you!

We are very exicted about your posts!

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