Presentation Explorer
New Presentation Explorer is an efficient tool that allows you to set up a presentation
structure and slide advance options,
add presenters and media resources in a single window.
With Presentation Explorer it's easy to add audio narration
or quizzes. You can
edit your presentation slide by slide or apply similar setting to a selected group of
slides using Presentation Explorer toolbar or the right-click context menu.
With iSpring Presentation Explorer you can easily:
- Organize Multilevel Navigation
- Manage Hidden Slides
- Edit Slide Titles
- Assign Presenters to slides
- Set Playback mode - manual or automatic
- Set Slide Duration
- Import Audio Narration to a slide
Multilevel Navigation
You can adjust slides nesting level to organize multilevel navigation in
your presentation with the slide nesting level control buttons:
Available levels will increase each time you move a slide to a subsequent level. For example,
when all slides of your presentation are assigned to the top level (1), you have an option to
add only one nested level (2). If you assign any slide to level 2 than you can move subsequent
slide to level 2 or 3 and so on.
Your presentation may contain up to 8 levels in hierarchy. Also you can collapse and expand
nested slides using "-" and "+" icons on the left of a top level slide.
Hidden Slides
You can mark any slide as hidden double clicking its thumbnail. Hidden slides are not shown in navigation and thumbnails and skipped during presentation playback. Please note that hidden slides are still exist in you Flash presentation and can be reached via links from other slides hyperlinks or action buttons.
Slide Title
Titles of slides are shown in the Outline tab of Advanced, Crystal and Classic Players. By default, titles are taken from PowerPoint slide titles of the presentation. To change a slide title, double-click on it and enter a new one. The new titles will display in your Flash presentation navigation and can differ from PowerPoint slide titles.
Presenters
To assign a Presenter to the selected slide, double click on a Presenter photo/name and select a different one from a drop-down list of available Presenters. By default a Presenter marked as Default is added to all slides in you presentation. To change a default Presenter, click the Presenters icon on iSpring toolbar.
Playback mode
You can set up a slide to advance to the next one automatically after time delay, or require a user to click to advance. To change advance type click on a mouse (manual mode) or timer (automatic mode) icon.
Slide duration
You can set timing for automatic advance on the right of changing mode icon.
Note: Slide advance time also depends on "Minimal slide duration"
that can be managed in Settings tab of Publish window.
Media
This section allows you to manage external audio in a slide.
If media has been already added to a slide, the corresponding icons are active,
allowing playing audio.
You can also add audio narration to a slide using the
Import Audio button of the
iSpring Pro toolbar.
Note: iSpring Presenter allows you to add one audio
per slide. You can also add a background audio for the entire presentation.
Further to importing media resources, you can record audio narration with iSpring Presenter.
Media - Audio
iSpring Presentation Explorer lets you import audio narration to the selected slide.
To add an audio:
- Click the Import audio narration icon to launch the Windows Explorer.
- Choose the audio you would like to insert. iSpring Presenter supports .MP3, .WMA and .WAV audio file formats.
Selected audio track starts playback automatically. To disable this option uncheck the Auto Play checkbox at the bottom of the explorer window.
By default the slide duration is adjusted to the audio file duration. If you uncheck the Adjust slide duration to fit audio option, PowerPoint timings for animated slides and minimal slide duration for non-animated slides may affect slide duration and your audio may not playback in full.
- Click Open. The audio file will be added to the selected slide.
Quick managment
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Toolbar |
Use the options on the Presentation Explorer toolbar to edit a group of selected slides. These settings behave the same way as for a single slide. Please see the detailed description above. |
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Right-click menu |
You can also manage slide or group of selected slide via context menu. Right-click in the area of the slide list to set Presenters, adjust playback mode, change slide nesting level and show/hide slides. |
Presentation Background Audio
Check the box to add a background audio for the entire presentation. iSpring Presenter supports .MP3, .WMA and .WAV audio file formats.
To add an audio file, click the "..." button and select an audio track. You can listen to the audio clicking on the speaker icon.
Check the box to loop audio during presentation playback. The audio will loop if presentation playback duration is longer than the background audio duration.