iSpring Converter Pro Changelog

What's new in iSpring Converter Pro 9.3.6 Build 36541

Dec 12, 2018
  • iSpring Converter Pro 9.3 has been enhanced with a smooth new design and built-in audio editor, making it easier than ever before to convert your presentations to online format for any device.
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  • Integrated Audio Editor
  • With iSpring Converter Pro, you can record or import audio narrations, synchronize them perfectly with all your slides and animations, and if necessary, edit them instantly with a built-in audio editor.
  • Delete audio fragments:
  • When you record your voice-overs, you never need to worry about making mistakes. Just keep recording and delete them later!
  • Remove background noise:
  • Don’t have professional audio equipment? Annoying laptop fan? No problem: just select a section of noise and remove it from the whole recording.
  • Fade-in/fade-out:
  • If you’d like to add a music soundtrack to your slides, you can apply professional fade-in/fade-out effects fast and easy.
  • New App for iPhone:
  • You and your users can save presentations on your mobile devices and view them at any convenient time, even without Internet access.
  • Now, along with the iPad and Android version, a brand-new iPhone mobile app is ready to use!

New in iSpring Converter Pro 8.7.0 Build 20205 (Sep 1, 2017)

  • Improved conversion quality of video files inserted on the slides
  • Improved option of adding resources from locations with long paths

New in iSpring Converter Pro 8.3.0 Build 15195 (Jul 14, 2016)

  • Microphone Setup Wizard:
  • With the new Microphone Setup Wizard, you can setup your mic and achieve the best sound when using the selected microphone type.
  • Feedback on a Product:
  • Leaving feedback on a product is now easier than ever. The fastest way to leave feedback is simply to click the Feedback button on the product toolbar.
  • iSpring Free Trial without Activation:
  • Starting a free trial version of iSpring Converter Pro 8.1 doesn’t require a trial key. With this update, you get faster access to all the new features of iSpring Converter Pro.
  • Open Sans Font in iSpring Players:
  • Open Sans is now used in all iSpring presentation players, providing you with a fluent cross-platform experience. Previously, we used Arial.
  • iSpring Viewer is now iSpring Play:
  • iSpring Viewer was renamed to iSpring Play. Starting from version 8.1, anyone who has the link can view your iSpring Cloud content with iSpring Play, download your presentation, quizzes and simulation for offline viewing without the Internet connection.
  • Updated Audio Editor:
  • The audio editor in iSpring Converter Pro 8 provides all the functionality you need to create an audio lecture fast and easy: noise reduction, cutting selected segments of the clip, adjusting the volume, etc.
  • Playlists for Background Music:
  • Now you can create audio playlists and apply playlist to any presentation slide using the enhanced Presentation Explorer interface. Moreover, you can adjust background audio volume and use the Loop playback feature.
  • New Preview Window:
  • With the enhanced Preview window, you can preview the entire presentation or a particular slide on any device even easier. Just click the Preview button on the toolbar to check how it works.
  • Publishing Presentations to iSpring Cloud:
  • By uploading your presentation to the Cloud, you open up four additional options to share your iSpring content: direct link, email, social media, and embed code. Plus, you can use iSpring Cloud as a secure content storage protected on multiple backup servers.

New in iSpring Converter Pro 7.1.0 Build 7514 (Mar 24, 2015)

  • Instant Sharing via iSpring Cloud:
  • By uploading your presentation to the Cloud, you open up four additional options to share your iSpring content: direct link, email, social media, and embed code. Plus, you can use iSpring Cloud as a secure content storage protected on multiple backup servers.
  • Publish to Flash and HTML5:
  • Create e-Learning courses and presentations for all desktops, laptops, Android tablets and iPads with a single mouse-click. iSpring Pro 7 allows you to convert your PowerPoint content to Flash, HTML5 or to the Flash+HTML5 combined format. Now you can develop e-Learning package that will be supported on all devices.
  • Brand New HTML5 Player:
  • Ensure the perfect look of your PowerPoint content on all devices! You can flexibly customize the new "Universal" player to prepare your HTML5 and Flash presentations for convenient playback on desktops, laptops, Android tablets and iPads.
  • Tin Can Support:
  • Publish e-Learning courses that support Tin Can API to get more information and feedback from your e-Learning materials. iSpring gives you the chance to take all advantage of the emerging Tin Can learning technology.
  • Section 508:
  • Adapt your e-Learning courses and presentations to the special needs of your learners. Thanks to iSpring's support of Section 508, your content is now optimized for screen readers.
  • Easy Slide Branching:
  • Build an effective navigation in your PowerPoint presentation by using iSpring's branching feature. You can adjust navigation buttons of each slide to take the learner exactly where you want to in your course. Alternatively, the navigation buttons can be locked.
  • Total Navigation Control:
  • Control the flow of your e-Learning course with navigation restriction options. If you find it more effective, you can restrict navigation by making users view the slides one by one or allowing them to access previously viewed slides only.
  • IMPROVED NARRATION EDITOR:
  • Improved Usability of Narration Editor:
  • Spend less time recording and synchronizing your voice overs and video narration. With iSpring's conveniently redesigned timeline even non-professional users can easily create an audio or video narration for an e-Learning course.
  • Mass Import of Audio and Video Clips:
  • Upload numerous audio or video clips at once to quickly set up the narration for your e-Learning course. Thanks to the automatic timing, all you have to do is fine-tune the narration.
  • BETTER VIDEO SUPPORT:
  • Take full advantage of video in your e-Learning course! iSpring Pro 7 uses the most advanced video codec, which ensures better quality of inserted video with smaller output file size.

New in iSpring Converter Pro 7.0.0 Build 4145 (May 22, 2013)

  • Publish to Flash and HTML5:
  • Create e-Learning courses and presentations for all desktops, laptops, Android tablets and iPads with a single mouse-click. iSpring Pro 7 allows you to convert your PowerPoint content to Flash, HTML5 or to the Flash+HTML5 combined format. Now you can develop e-Learning package that will be supported on all devices.
  • Brand New HTML5 Player:
  • Ensure the perfect look of your PowerPoint content on all devices! You can flexibly customize the new "Universal" player to prepare your HTML5 and Flash presentations for convenient playback on desktops, laptops, Android tablets and iPads.
  • Tin Can Support:
  • Publish e-Learning courses that support Tin Can API to get more information and feedback from your e-Learning materials. iSpring gives you the chance to take all advantage of the emerging Tin Can learning technology.
  • Section 508:
  • Adapt your e-Learning courses and presentations to the special needs of your learners. Thanks to iSpring's support of Section 508, your content is now optimized for screen readers.
  • Easy Slide Branching:
  • Build an effective navigation in your PowerPoint presentation by using iSpring's branching feature. You can adjust navigation buttons of each slide to take the learner exactly where you want to in your course. Alternatively, the navigation buttons can be locked.
  • Total Navigation Control:
  • Control the flow of your e-Learning course with navigation restriction options. If you find it more effective, you can restrict navigation by making users view the slides one by one or allowing them to access previously viewed slides only.
  • Improved Usability of Narration Editor:
  • Spend less time recording and synchronizing your voice overs and video narration. With iSpring's conveniently redesigned timeline even non-professional users can easily create an audio or video narration for an e-Learning course.
  • Mass Import of Audio and Video Clips:
  • Upload numerous audio or video clips at once to quickly set up the narration for your e-Learning course. Thanks to the automatic timing, all you have to do is fine-tune the narration.
  • Better Video Support:
  • Take full advantage of video in your e-Learning course! iSpring Pro 7 uses the most advanced video codec, which ensures better quality of inserted video with smaller output file size.

New in iSpring Converter Pro 6.2.0 Build 3430 (Aug 23, 2012)

  • Brand New Narration Editor
  • Fully-customizable Streamline Player
  • Advanced Scrolling
  • Pulsing "Play" Button

New in iSpring Converter Pro 6.1.0 Build 3358 (Jul 4, 2012)

  • Presentation Quiz-based Branching:
  • Take full advantage of branching opportunities, now available not only within a quiz, but also within your eLearning course. Together with supported trigger animations and controlled navigation, branching scenarios ensure higher student interaction and thus more effective eLearning.
  • Web Objects Insertion:
  • With this feature you can easily insert any web page into your course to ensure quick access to a source of information or service online. Thanks to flexible settings of the feature, you can customize the size of the object, specify when the objects should be displayed, and turn off automatic slide transition for this certain slide. Please note that active Internet connection and playback in a browser are required to display web object correctly.
  • Enhanced Streamline Player:
  • The brand new Streamline player now features the new default layout and even more customization opportunities that ensure the perfect look of your project.
  • Marker Tool:
  • Use Streamline's marker tools to emphasize your point and illustrate the original idea. The player provides pen, highlighter and eraser – all easily accessible in the toolbar.
  • Removing Navigation Buttons:
  • Now you can disable the navigation buttons to ensure a student takes your course on a unit-per-unit basis or in the logical order predesigned by you. You can remove some or all of the following buttons: "Play/Pause", "Previous", "Next". Controlled navigation together with course branching scenarios and trigger animations support makes your e-learning courses more interactive and efficient.
  • Slide Notes as Closed Captioning:
  • Now you can use the notes to your slides as closed captioning. The feature displays notes under the slide in your Streamline player.
  • Import and Export of Player Settings and Presenters:
  • Now you can easily share your presenter info and customized player with your colleagues. This can be very useful if there are several presentation authors within an organization. You will need to adjust your corporate style only once and then export your settings. You can always import them to any computer and immediately implement your own style.
  • Improved Narration Editor:
  • With the improved Narration Editor by iSpring, the process of recording and managing your narrations becomes streamlined and simple. The narration editor now features slide adjustment to the duration of an audio file, ability to easily change, edit or mute audio/video clips. Slide notes can be displayed in a floating window. Narration editor has many interface and usability improvements.
  • More Player Layouts in Presentation Explorer:
  • With the Presentation Explorer you can set special layout for each slide of your project. The feature is especially useful to switch user's attention between slide content and your video narration. Take advantage of the new "Slide+Video" layout that displays slide and narration video is a 50/50 proportion. Alternatively, you can emphasize your video with the "Maximized Video" layout.
  • Setting Completion Statuses for an LMS:
  • If you are publishing AICC or SCORM 1.2 courses, you can set the completion status that will be sent to an LMS. This feature allows rating a course as passed/failed or complete/incomplete.

New in iSpring Converter Pro 6.0.0 Build 3229 (Dec 13, 2011)

  • Recording and synchronizing audio/video narrations with Narration Editor:
  • With iSpring narration recording opportunities you can beautifully express your main ideas and show your individual presenting approach. With Narration Editor you can record and import audio and video narrations, synchronize easily with slides or even animations and preview the narrated presentation with a click of your mouse. Narration Editor also provides the unique opportunity to synchronize a single video file with the whole presentation.
  • Fully customizable brand-new Streamline player:
  • Take advantage of iSpring's brand-new Streamline player with its fully customizable color and language scheme, numerous layout presets and Action Script 3 support. Player customization, available in the Publish window, allows you to adapt every item of the player to your idea of presentation design.
  • Another useful feature of the player is the ability to set certain player layouts for each slide. With this feature, you can choose to play the presentation back in full screen mode and show the side bar only when necessary.
  • Action Script 3 support:
  • iSpring Pro now features Action Script 3 support in the new Streamline player, generating output Flash content on Action Script 3. It ensures far better playback of most transition effects, including 3D transitions. Action Script 3 support also provides opportunity to insert external Action Script 3 Flash movies into presentations.
  • Enhanced protection features:
  • To protect your Flash presentation from unwanted editing, disclosure or theft, take full advantage of advanced protection features. iSpring Pro provides multiple protection types, including watermark protection, password protection, domain restriction and time restriction.
  • Integration with iSpring Kinetics interactions:
  • iSpring Pro ensures full compatibility with iSpring Kinetics, a new iSpring product for the creation of attractive and captivating interactions. If iSpring Kinetics is installed on your computer, you can create interactions straight in PowerPoint by pressing the ‘Interaction’ button on iSpring Pro toolbar.
  • Integration with iSpring QuizMaker quizzes and surveys:
  • iSpring Pro provides tight integration with iSpring QuizMaker, a handy tool by iSpring for the creation of engaging and challenging quizzes and interactive surveys. iSpring QuizMaker, installed on your computer, can be easily accessed from iSpring Pro via ‘Quiz’ button on the ribbon.
  • Learning Management System compliance:
  • iSpring Pro 6 now allows generating e-learning courses that can be integrated with any Learning Management System, compliant with SCORM/AICC standards, including Moodle, Blackboard and SumTotal. For especially rapid sharing, upload courses to iSpring Online LMS straight from PowerPoint.

New in iSpring Converter Pro 5.6.1 Build 2963 (Dec 24, 2010)

  • More flexible Advanced Player sidebar management
  • By default sidebar panel in Advanced Glossy and Advanced Matte player templates is to the left, but just in case you decide that with your slides it looks better to the right, it has been made easy to position it on either side.
  • Hyperlinks screentips
  • Make hyperlinks in your presentations as transparent as possible by adding screentips to let people know where exactly clicking a link would take them. (That will make them feel safer in this crazy world of spam.)
  • On mouse over actions support
  • With mouse over actions support you can really let your creativity out and make your slides highly interactive and fun! As many users requested mouse-over sounds support the new iSpring brings it into life. Check it out with the new iSpring.
  • PowerPoint Trim audio support
  • When adding audio files to your slides you now don't have to worry about cutting the piece you need with audio-editing software. PowerPoint 2010 allows trimming inserted audio, and iSpring supports it too. So you only insert an audio file and select the part you want on your slide, the rest is taken care of for you.
  • PowerPoint Trim and Crop video support
  • As for inserted videos, not only you can trim the important part of a video file, you also can crop it to only show the part of a video screen that has to be displayed. This is another cool PowerPoint 2010 feature that is easily handled by iSpring 5.6.
  • Automatic product update notifications
  • If you are waiting for a product update to come out, you can now have the product notify you whenever it is available. Update checks can run automatically with the frequency you select or can be run manually by clicking Update on the product toolbar.

New in iSpring Converter Pro 5.5.0 Build 2928 (Jul 5, 2010)

  • Publishing course to BlackBoard LMS
  • Now iSpring offers the impressive feature of creating e-learning courses ready for publishing to the well-known Blackboard Learning Management System. iSpring will also generate a course that can be uploaded and tracked via BlackBoard without any additional setup, allowing for more focus on learning content creation.
  • Resume presentation option
  • It's much more convenient to continue presentation playback from the last slide viewed. Why bother searching the point where you stopped playback if you are redirected to the needed page right away?
  • Synchronized presenter video & animations playback
  • Deliver the ultimate viewing experience with the synchronized presenter video and animation effects playback - if video stops playback while loading, slide animations pause as well.
  • Improved trigger animations with 3D transitions
  • Trigger animations with 3D transitions are now converted to Flash with outstanding quality. Freely set up trigger effects with the new catching transitions to communicate your message effectively.
  • PowerPoint 2010 transition effects
  • Improved quiz player look and feel
  • Integrated QuizMaker has also got a facelift in version 5.5 and you'll definitely like the new attractive player for quizzes. Choose a color scheme that suits your content the best and instantly preview your quiz with a selected design. Plus, you can localize all player text labels and buttons.
  • Quiz results normalization
  • A quiz results can now be normalized to the N-value scale to track quiz results seamlessly with any LMS. So points earned in the test can be recalculated to comply with your course evaluation system.
  • Improved Publish to FTP window
  • Uploading to FTP has become even easier with the new interface, automatically indentifying the required fields from the FTP URL. Plus, you can instantly check if connection with a server is successful.
  • Fullscreen mode keyboard control
  • Customize the most convenient keyboard controls to play your presentations in fullscreen mode since Flash movies cannot be automatically opened in full screen due to security restrictions.
  • Easier references and attachment management
  • Take more control over web references and file attachments in your Flash presentations. Easily manage and rearrange presentation links in the desired order.

New in iSpring Converter Pro 5.0.0 Build 2864 (May 26, 2010)

  • PowerPoint 2010 support:
  • You can now use the new iSpring Pro with both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Microsoft Office 2010.
  • Trigger animation support:
  • Preserve all the interactivity of your PowerPoint presentations, as iSpring Pro 5.0 now supports animation effects, triggered by mouse clicks on slide shapes.
  • Improved user interface:
  • The Publish window has facelift too. A new tab has been added to the publish window to make it easier for you to publish presentations to iSpring Online or other Learning Management Systems.
  • Video playback control:
  • You can now control playback of video elements inserted to your presentation. You just move a mouse over linked elements, and standard playback controls will appear.
  • New PowerPoint 2010 transition effects support:
  • iSpring Pro supports virtually all transition effects added to the new PowerPoint 2010 including 3D effects. The only unsupported transition effect is Ripple, which is automatically replaced with the Fade effect during the conversion process.
  • New preloader option:
  • You can now choose a new preloader to add to the beginning of your Flash presentations to indicate the loading progress.
  • Adjustable duration of a selected group of slides in Presentation Explorer
  • It's now possible to adjust duration of a whole group of selected slides in Presentation Explorer instead of specifying duration for each slide individually.
  • Publish to CD:
  • iSpring Pro can now prepare your Flash presentation for burning to CD/DVD. This disc will start playing your presentation automatically, as soon as it's loaded. The files can be recorded with your favorite CD/DVD burner or using Windows system tools.
  • Tooltips on the Outline tab:
  • You can now enable or disable tooltips that appear on the Outline tab of the Advanced Player.

New in iSpring Converter Pro 4.3.0.2652 (Sep 25, 2009)

  • Publishing to iSpring Online portal
  • Check out new facility by iSpring Solutions - iSpring Online, the professional service for your Flash presentations sharing. Manage content easily and track your content activities in every way - who views it, who is more active, etc.
  • Keyboard customization
  • Not always shortcuts make long delays. iSpring customized shortcut keys will serve you right. Set your own shortcut keys and save them to use it the future alike projects. Each command can be assigned up to three shortcuts to the viewer choice.
  • Custom company logo in Lite player
  • Enhance a simple Lite player layout with your own branding. Add your company logo to make it look more professional and complete. Don't forget that recognizability is extremely important in today's business world.
  • Random Effects animation support
  • Surprise your viewers with new animation effects applied to a single object every time they play your slideshow. Set random effect to your objects and no concerns about its output quality. Random effects are now well taken care of by iSpring.
  • Advanced processing of SmartArt objects
  • SmartArt objects processing is now supported with unbelievable accuracy. So awaken a designer inside of you and let yourself play with expressive SmartArt graphics that would visually communicate your information.
  • Standard PowerPoint sound volume control
  • Now Standard PowerPoint audio volume control is supported. High, medium, low or even muted - whatever you set for your soundtrack in PowerPoint would be played at just the same level in the output Flash.

New in iSpring Converter Pro 4.2 (Sep 25, 2009)

  • YouTube Video Insert
  • The time has come for you to amaze your audience with a YouTube video broadcasted right from your presentation. Those clips can sometimes be so much more expressive than just plain explanations and say so much more than us.
  • Publish Presets
  • You only use one pre-publishing settings model for all of your presentations or you have no idea how to set all of those options for a certain project? No problem! We have thought of these scenarios for you. Just save your own frequently used presets or select the ones that iSpring offers for different project types.
  • System Fonts Display
  • Having trouble with decent oriental languages display in your player template? Not anymore! The most popular player skins - Advanced Glossy, Advanced Matte and Crystal - now support system fonts.

New in iSpring Converter Pro 4.1 (Mar 24, 2009)

  • Advanced Glossy Player, Expressive Slide Notes, Multiple Presenters' Companies Logos, More Animation Effects, Custom Slide Show, Animated GIFs color effects, Stop Transition Sound Support

New in iSpring Converter Pro 3.5.0 (Jul 11, 2008)

  • Animations by Words and Letters,
  • Repeated Animations,
  • Improved 3D Shapes Positioning,
  • New Features of Advanced Player