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Creating Accelerated e-learning content in three easy steps...
Here's a look at each step in more detail.
Record
With TDT's flexible recording options, you can choose to capture full screen, window or region. This is not all… TDT can capture frames from video, import slides from PowerPoint presentations or backgrounds from other e-learning simulations. Add audio and sound effects to complete a perfect simulation. Recycle your old e-learning with TDT.
Top TDT recording features
Import Images and backgrounds from other e-learning
Import images from a variety of formats using menu or toolbar options. Use an imported image as a callout placed on existing frames or as a replacement for the background frame itself.
Import from PPT and other Projects
Slides may be imported from PowerPoint presentations, or from another TDT project, including topics transferred from UPK via R-UPK. Simply go to the file menu and make the appropriate selection. Add as many or few slides as you wish in any sequence.
Import Slides from Microsoft PowerPoint
Record Frames from Video files
Frames are easily captured from WMV files. The TDT menu option opens a window. Play the video file in the window and capture as many images as you wish; then import them precisely into your project.
Capture and Record Frames from Video files (WMV)
Edit
After the recording or taking screen captures is complete TDT can now transform the background images into application like screens by using a number of unique utilities for creating masks and loading them with data. You just point and click on areas of the image and turn them automatically into data fields. TDT will provide the functions to do the rest in record time.
Import or change data, add from items stored in libraries, update the images with data from MS Excel, Live Applications or Data Loader scripts. There is even a built in OCR feature which lets you scan an image and turn the data into text ready for a new training session in English or any other language. TDT provides a set of translation utilities to help maintain multiple versions of the same recording.
Top TDT Editing Features
Callouts and Masks
Superb image-editing features offered by TDT include masks, table masks and shapes. Click and place as required. Double click to add text, borders and background colors.
Edge recognition with color matching
Edge recognition not only fits a mask exactly to field boundaries, it picks up the precise background color. The Edge-recognition plus OCR feature also picks up existing field contents as a prompt for subsequent easier editing.
Mask text editor
Double click on a mask to edit contents or link it to an external file for rapid updating. Mass updates can also be made via a data loader or from Excel.
External Files using clone and ripple-updates
Publish
Once the old e-learning has been Accelerated with masks and loaded with data from any number of external sources you will want to keep changing the data to keep it up to date. Each time you publish you can update what the user sees with no redevelopment or translation. Everything that is entered onto the background slides can be printed or saved to a number of MS Word templates. Training courses, test scripts, process documents and many other types of materials can be easily produced. TDT also provides a rapid courseware development kit which plugs into our MS Word training template. This enables rapid content development of printed materials to accompany any TDT created videos.
Top TDT Re-Publishing Features
Preview before Publishing
Verify your work with the TDT Previewer and check to see how your final recording will appear.
Flash or EXE
Publish your project to Flash or an EXE file. Simply go to the Publish menu, edit the skin to the desired final appearance and chose the format.
Word
Use available templates to build Word documents to your specifications with slide images included.
FTP and email
Publishing to ftp or email is coming soon.
Post-publishing editing
The external files are still linked to the project even after it has been published to Flash or EXE. By editing the external file, users may change the video text contents directly without re-publishing. No training needed. AMAZING.
Editing External Files to update Flash Files


