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slide-sync-tool-launched

by Ryan

Slide-Sync Tool Launched

We are excited to announce a major feature launch tonight - if you check out our home page you will now see an option to synchronize your video with slides.  This feature has been in private beta since we initially launched, and we are now happy to open it up to the world.

You can import your videos from YouTube, Google Video or Blip.tv as before, and now you can either upload your slides (in pdf format) or import your slides from SlideShare.

Once you’ve uploaded your slides, you can set each one to appear at a certain point in your video.  Once you have ’synchronized’ your slides, you’ll end up with something like this:

DHH at Startup School

As you can see we combine the best of YouTube and SlideShare to create a new way of experiencing presentations online.  We’re looking forward to people using this for talks, conferences, classes, training and more.  As always, we love hearing your feedback so let us know what you think!

16 Responses to “Slide-Sync Tool Launched”

  1. Mark Says:

    OK, I see what you’re trying to do here, but hello, you have overlooked the real need that needs to be filled.

    Most slide presentations on the web are missing AUDIO tracks, not video. I can’t count how many presentations I’ve seen online where only the slides are available. Or vice versa — audio without slides. Or audio in one place, and slides somewhere else as a download. If there was a tool for synchronizing these, we’d be way ahead of where we are now. But you didn’t create an answer to this real problem; instead you had to concoct a problem that doesn’t exist.

    Well I hope you’ll see the light soon and build something that addresses a real need, the one I’ve mentioned. Or maybe I’m just lacking clues, and your video product will take off like a rocket. Good luck with that.

  2. Ryan Says:

    Thanks for the comment Mark. Our technology already supports syncing audio with slides, we just haven’t exposed this in the interface. If there is demand we can quickly add this.

    Note that if you are not interested in watching the video, but just want to see the slides and listen to the audio, you can click on the maximize button in the top left corner of the slide (twice).

    Cheers,
    Ryan

  3. Sally Says:

    This has potential interesting uses for teaching. Is there the potential for you licence the software and allow it to be hosted at an academic institution?

  4. Import from China Says:

    Great info - keep up the great work.

  5. Floyd Marinescu Says:

    FYI, InfoQ.com has been doing this for over 2 years, see our online video presentations on Enterprise Software Development Topics. We have hundreds of hours of live videos published.

  6. Step2User Says:

    Yes

  7. sandrar Says:

    Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post… nice! I love your blog. :) Cheers! Sandra. R.

  8. Neil Suriel Says:

    Great stuff! I’m enquiring if you know of any forums that discuss these fascinating subjects at all? Thanks :)

  9. Parveen Punia Says:

    Hello,

    i wanted to contact you by you given email address but when i tried then i got following failure message. Is their any other to send my query?

    Hi. This is the qmail-send program at yahoo.com.
    I’m afraid I wasn’t able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
    This is a permanent error; I’ve given up. Sorry it didn’t work out.

    :
    Sorry, I couldn’t find a mail exchanger or IP address. (#5.4.4)

  10. Parveen Punia Says:

    So i am posting my query here.

    Hi team
    is there any way i can see your tool implemented.How do I get your API for trial.So that I can be sure to use it in my app.I need some documentation also for this how can we use it pls help.

    Regards,
    Parveen Punia

  11. Parveen Punia Says:

    Hi,

    I have used the demo of this tool. and Produced a folder that contains a final output with a index.htm page. this page working fine in IE browser but in mozilla its giving a alert “IE 5.0 or above needed to view the presentation”.

    How to resolve this problem OR is this tool is not compatible with Mozilla?

  12. Michaelo Says:

    I have no idea, maybe you just need to wait a little longer. Dont be so impatient.

  13. Fuzu Says:

    Oops sorry guys about the comment above, my younger brother done that. He has downs syndrome and insists on messing with my computer if i turn my back on it for 5 minutes. He has no idea what he is doing, sorry Fuzu!

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