Creating a professional Flash presentation requires an exhausting amount of programming. Why does iSpring take just a few moments to create a professional-looking Flash file? What does iSpring really do with a presentation? Read on to find out how it works.

iSpring products use iSpring AccuPoint Technology for converting PowerPoint to Flash. This technology converts PowerPoint to Flash with relative ease, yet the process is actually quite detailed:

1. Collecting Information

   iSpring AccuPoint analyzes a presentation's content, recognizes all of its elements and breaks it into small pieces, classifying shapes, texts, animation effects, embedded objects, etc.

2. Generating Flash Equivalents

   To make a presentation's Flash copy look exactly like a PowerPoint presentation, iSpring AccuPoint creates a Flash equivalent for every single element of a PowerPoint presentation.

3. Creating a Flash Movie

   It accurately puts these Flash equivalents together, preserving all of their parameters and packaging it as a single Flash file using ActiveSWF technology.

Output iSpring-created Flash file is

• more compact than a PowerPoint original (up to 97% file size reduction)
• easily transferable to any other computer via email or by portable devices
• easily viewable and can be opened in any Internet browser with a Flash player installed

How Does iSpring Work in Detail?

iSpring examines presentation layout and content, carefully determining the position, size and geometry of each shape. To arrange Flash shapes according to their animation settings, iSpring captures information about PowerPoint animation effects and their combinations and creates corresponding Flash animation sequences. The table below gives a list of PowerPoint objects, easily handled by iSpring:

• shapes
• texts
• tables/charts
• diagrams
• animation effects
• transition effects
• slide duration

• images
• audio
• video
• YouTube video
• Flash
• SmartArt

Generating Flash Equivalents

iSpring transforms shapes and effects data collected from PowerPoint into Flash movie content in ActiveSWF XML format. iSpring then assembles this XML content into a Flash movie.

Creating a Flash Movie

A Flash presentation can be assembled in two different ways:

1. as a solid Flash movie, or
2. as a set of separate Flash movies,
   one for each PowerPoint slide.

At this stage the Flash based player can be added, if necessary.

Output Advantages

Size

An iSpring-created Flash file is guaranteed to be much smaller than your original presentation in PowerPoint. Your presentation size can be reduced by up to 97%.

Smart Compression

For a perfect balance between size and quality of your presentation iSpring provides compression settings for graphic and multimedia content of your presentation. Compression settings can be applied to files of the following formats:
Audio: MP3/WAV/ WMA
Video: AVI/WMV/MPG/MP4
Images: JPEG/PNG

Single Flash File

When creating a Flash file, iSpring puts all of the presentation embedded objects together and adds them to the Flash file. This way, instead of a bunch of files, it creates a single file that can be uploaded to the Internet, sent via email, put onto a CD, etc.

iSpring AccuPoint™ is used in both iSpring desktop products like iSpring Pro and iSpring Suite as well as in the server side solution, iSpring Platform.

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