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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:
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!
May 13th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
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.
May 13th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
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
May 16th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
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?
July 20th, 2008 at 1:48 am
Great info - keep up the great work.
July 28th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
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.
August 5th, 2008 at 4:58 am
Yes