WHAT'S NEW

Draw the viewer's attention to areas of the scene that are particularly important. Zoom Area may be used to emphasize a step or area in the scene that might have otherwise been missed .

Have your working folders placed in the intro screen to save time.

Add "transformations" that rotate the movie on the x,y and z axises. Transformations also grant you the ability to scale or zoom your movie.

When this option is enabled, you can add transformations using ONLY the mouse. Animating your movie in DB has truly become child's play! It's that easy!

The newly embedded "auto functions" reduce the editing phase to one simple click! DB is now able to retain relevant information during capture time and then use this to add all balloons, text and transitions (to your movie) that it sees necessary to draw the end-user's attention.

Employ this function to add desired auto-functions, to modify the cursor, and to add intro & end scenes immediately after capture time. With the use of this option, and we're not kidding, your movie is personalized with one click of your mouse.

Edit exactly what and where you need to with our new "in-place text editor". Still in love with the previous text editor? Don't worry! You can choose to revert to it in the Preferences section of the new Version.

You can now choose to give your movie a wallpaper, gradient or a simple, solid colour. Similarly, your recording is no longer held attached to the background. Now, you are able to rotate, zoom and adjust the position of this as your desire.

Restrict the accessibility of a movie to a specific domain.

Wish to quickly preview your scene? No longer do you need to move the playhead! To quick preview your scene, simply drag the mouse over the scene item.

Add a reflection effect or choose to rotate in 3D to add that WOW factor to your presentation!

Objects can now be rotated in 3D, scaled and/or rotated on the x,y and z axises. You may choose to scale the objects "up", "down" or have these "stick" to the background image by selecting the appropriate "attach" property.

The text, animated text and gradient background tools have been thoroughly refined to make your movie shine! You can now also choose to have a gradient effect, apply a shadow and so much more.

Scale and/or add a highlight effect to your cursor pointer to draw the user's attention exactly where you desire it.

Need to train your end-users using the right-click event? Version 8 has you covered! DB 8 now allows you to capture all right click events.

Mesmerize your users with our stunning in/out transition effect. The new, jaw-dropping, "blur" effect will further impress any end-user.

The timeline has too received a facelift! The "snap to" function has been updated and largely improved for your convenience.

Align Top, Align Bottom

Adjust your movie's size, have it fit any browser window or choose to export in a custom size. ActionScript 3 is now included to make this process much faster and smoother.

Choose to export your movie in AVI, WMV or MP4 format. (You may also resize and upload your movies to any video sharing website.) Export your movies in Video format, burn these to CDs or choose to upload them to video sharing websites such as Youtube and MetaCafe.

The callout text in your presentation can be spoken by the default text to speech voice on your computer.

Narrate the movie using the playback in the preview window as your guide. The audio clip created appears on the Timeline when the voice narration ends.

Watch the movie and hear the voice over parallel in the editorial view.

Easily insert some space in the Timeline by dragging the Playhead.

Express yourself to the whole world and let everybody see your movies by uploading them to YouTube directly !

The user interface has been redesigned to provide greater ease-of-use and better functionality.

Zoom-n-Pan allows you to zoom in a specific area of your scene in order to focus the viewer's attention on that area or to show specific details.

Flash Video files add realism and depth to your movies. You can insert FLV files so that they play from any scene in your movie.

Automatically fit the screen capture to the active window.

A new balloon style, "custom" has been added in version 7 which allows you to fully customize a balloon in terms of color and shape.

Place a "Continue" button on a balloon and/or note. The movie will be paused, allowing the viewer to read the content of the balloon and/or note and to continue playing only when this button is clicked.

Now you can align the playerbar to top or bottom.

Add a Play button at the beginning of your movie. The movie will start playing only when you click the Play button.

Add a Replay button at the end of the movie and the viewer can play the movie again with one click.

New transitions per scene have been added: Dissolve, Newsflash

Execute JavaScript in a web browser. This option assumes you're publishing to HTML/SWF.

Now you can insert PNG images with alpha transparency and transparent/animated GIF files.

Customize the click and double-click effect by selecting the color, adjusting the radius and enabling/disabling the sound effect.

The Timeline has been improved, to be simpler without compromising power.
New features have been added: Undo function, show all 'changes', show current 'change'

Demo Builder 6 now features full-motion recording capability. Choose your frames per second rate, and easily capture smooth recordings of your demonstration. Now capturing drag and drop functions, animations, and Flash websites has never been easier! (this feature available only in Demo Builder 6 PROFESSIONAL edition)

Import AVI movies as scenes in Demo BUilder 6. If you have existing AVI movies that you want included in your Demo Builder presentations, you can import them and they become a scene within your movie. (as this feature is only possible with Full-Motion recording, it is available only in Demo Builder 6 PROFESSIONAL edition)

In the new Demo Builder 6, "frames" are now called "scenes". You can now easily merge multiple scenes into one large scene, thus reducing the number of scenes displayed in the all-scenes view (movie overview).

You can easily split a scene into multiple scenes. You simply place the playhead at the point in the scene where you want to create the split, click two clicks later, the scene is split into two scenes. You can continue to split a scene as many times as you wish.

You are no longer limited to having straight, concave or convex cursor motions. You can now create complex custom cursor motions as well, and fully edit those motions.

When adding a rectangle or ellipse to a scene, you can now choose to fill it with a color, or instead, fill the outer area of the shape with the fill color.

You can now "lock" objects in a scene so they cannot be edited or moved accidentally. You can also set an object's visibility in a scene to either ON or OFF, so for example you can have an object not display, without actually deleting it.

The auto-calculate time algorithm has been completely redesigned, and you can now set specific "words per minute" so that when using Auto-calculate time, the length of time a note or balloon is kept visible can more easily be controlled... automatically!

You can now set Marks through your movies (in fact, several within any given scene). Marks allow you to identify certain points within your movie where you can then add actions. For example, let's say you want your movie to pause at mark 2 in scene 3, or at mark 3 you want your movie to jump back to mark 4 in scene 1 (just some examples).

The screen capturing process has been much improved and is now quicker than in past versions!

With one click you can now export all open movies in Demo Builder at one time, meaning you no longer have to manually click "Export" for every open movie. You can also "Save all" with one click. A great time saving feature for those who work on multiple movies at one time!

Any audio you've imported into a scene or your movie can now be saved back to disk. This is handy if you have misplaced the original sound file and want to use it again in another scene, or if you make changes to an audio file with the built-in sound editor, and want to save your changes.

Add an interactive menu at the top of your movie to link to additional content, or create a table of contents for large projects.

You can now publish your project in Microsoft Word DOC format, which will display your slides on printable pages in the format you choose. Include cursor moves and text boxes if so desired, and even blank lines so students can take notes. Great for handouts!

DemoBuilder 5.1 is now fully compliant with SCORM and AICC Learning Management Systems.

Add password protection to your movies. This option allows you to create movies that will ask the user for a password prior to the movie playing.

Add an expiration date to your movies, so that they will no longer play after the expiration date is reached. If a user attempts to view a movie that has expired, they are redirected to a webpage or display text with hyperlink.

Easily add a custom watermark (or logo) to all scenes in your movies. Watermark can be altered in terms of physical location within all scenes, and opacity. You can optionally make it 'clickable' so that it hyperlinks to a webpage of your choosing.

You can now add the following actions at the end of a scene: Continue, Go To Scene, Go To Movie, Go To URL, Close Movie or Run EXE

Now instead of just assigning events based on a single click within a region, outside a region, or hovering over a region, you can now assign a separate event if a user double-clicks within, or outside a click zone or button. Events you can assign to OnDoubleClick events include: Continue, Go To Scene, Go To Movie, Go To URL, Send E-Mail, Close Movie or Run EXE.

You can now customize the preloader image that you can optionally display at the beginning of a movie, before it is fully loaded. You can also adjust what percentage must be reached before the movie starts.

We've included new hotkeys for stopping, pausing (and unpausing) and ending a recording. This is helpful if you want to take a break in recording, perhaps to open a new window and get it positioned properly before resuming recording.

The system tray icon always used to display in the system tray during recording. It is this icon that used to have to be clicked to end a recording session. Now that there is a hotkey assigned to Ending a recording, you can opt to hide the system tray icon as it is no longer needed. This is useful for full screen movies where you do not want the system tray icon captured in your movie.

These are useful new tools to help line up images, cursors, notes and balloons within your movie scenes.

We've included a script (ieupdate.js) which is used to work around the KB912945 patch.