If you're a WildPresenter customer or are using a WildPresenter demo, you may already be familiar with the players that work with WildPresenter. If not, here's an online demo of some of them.

As a midweek gift to you, here's an audio only player!

Download this free player! (8 kb)

Here's a tutorial on Adding a WildPresenter Player to Audio Only Files

This tutorial explains how to use WildPresenter's convenient player functionality to add a player to an audio only file. This allows listeners to apply play controls such as mute, volume, fast forward, rewind, play, pause and stop to audio only files.

Enjoy!

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Have you ever wanted to put some animated signatures in an email, or animated text on a site that restricts the use of Flash, video and other rich-media formats? Well, now you can, using Wild FX Pro 4's new animated GIF export option. That's because animated GIF works everywhere!

Use all the same great effects and features built into Wild FX Pro and output them to the user friendly animated GIF format.

GREAT NEW FEATURES >>>

In addition to animated GIF output, Wild FX Pro 4 has

* Active content fix for Flash files in Internet Explorer
* automatic transparent video option loader
* email code export
* updates for handling Quicktime 7.

Wild FX Pro 4 is available for Windows 2000/XP/Vista

Current WIld FX Pro customers get upgrade discounts.

Upgrade now for only $39

Your upgrade also applies to the Titler Bundle --
if you don't yet have the Custom FX 2, this is a great deal

* Go here: http://www.wildform.com/cart/customers_emailwo.php
* Enter the email address you used to purchase your current license of Wild FX Pro.
(If you've lost your information, contact us.)
* Click "Calculate Discount" button
* Go to secure checkout.

Cover all your bases with Wild FX Pro 4

* Animated GIF output is perfect for emails and websites with restrictions.
* Flash output is perfect for websites and Flash projects.
* Video output is perfect for non-linear editing and video projects.

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Bono was playing a U2 concert in Glasgow recently, when he asked the audience for total quiet.

Then in the silence, he started to slowly clap his hands, once every few seconds.

Holding the audience in total silence, he said into the microphone, "Every time I clap my hands, a child in Africa dies."

A Glaswegian voice rang out from near the front of the crowd, piercing the silence........

"Well, f**kin' stop doing it then!"

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This video posted by Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University, is fascinating.

Here's an interview John Battelle did with Wesch after he saw this video.

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This morning I got the monthly newsletter from our friends at Internet Video Magazine and it's loaded with some great video sites, which I want to pass on.

From their newsletter:

Metacafe - Cafe Confidential "This is extremely interesting - Have you yet checked out Steven Bochco's Cafe Confidential - where people spill their guts and their biggest secrets on video? Check it out. You can win contests and cash. (this is real interesting as we pitched a show just like this about 20 years to various TV syndication houses and producers, but it never got picked up - so it goes) Just goes to prove that good ideas eventually hatch and blossom."

Bullcrank "If you are a film maker interested in how to use the web to promote your productions and projects, check out this cool site. The guys at BullCrank have some good ideas you might want to "borrow." Plus they do have some cool original content we are sure you will enjoy watching. So crank it up...."

TelecomTV "Interested in telecom, technology and television? Check out one of the best sites on the web for news and views that concern this convergence of technologies. TelecomTV - desktop TV for the global ICT professional. Hereis a direct link to their streaming video page."

Check out Internet Video Magazine for many more sites.

And yes, all that Flash video you see on these sites can be made in WildPresenter.

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Many people have asked us how to play their projects at full screen. Here's a tutorial to show you how to do it.

How to play your WildPresenter projects at full screen

You may view the example used in this tutorial here. (Requires Flash player 9.0.28 which you'll be guided to install on this page, if you do not already have it.)

Posted by Colby Devitt at 03:11 PM
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We've got a great collection of new tutorials on our site today all in celebration of our release of WildPresenter Pro 3.1.

Here's a new tutorial we created in response to our customer requests. If you have a long video file, streaming your video in the FLV format is the way to go. Here's how to do it:

How to add a streaming FLV to your WildPresenter presentation.

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New tutorial!

How to make transparent backgrounds in WildPresenter

This new tutorial shows you how to apply a transparent background to your WildPresenter project, and to apply transparency to images, SWFs and videos within your project.

Posted by Colby Devitt at 01:12 PM
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WILDPRESENTER PRO 3.1

We're pleased to announce that we just released WildPresenter Pro 3.1, a major update that includes many of the features most requested by our customers:

* full screen playback mode
* FLV video seeking on the timeline
* the ability to combine an unlimited number of animations for a single object
* improved PowerPoint to Flash conversion, and several other new capabilities.
* For the full list of new features, please read our press release

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Greetings!

Guess what just landed in my inbox? A new product tour for WildPresenter. It's gorgeous. I recommend giving it a spin.

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We're always proud, so proud, when customers tell us how much our products and company mean to them. We recently got two such emails from customers. The first one was straightforward and had the usual effect of bringing smiles to our office, especially on Trevor, our stellar tech support specialist who was working with Steve.

"You guys are truly great. You have the BEST support of ANY software that I have ever purchased. And I have a feeling that there are a thousand applications for this fine software. Thanks!" -- Steve Brecht

The second email came from a long time Wildform customer. This one was a first.

"I just wanted to say THANKS for creating such a professional "all in one" program! I have tried several others (most were higher priced) and they don't come close to the features and performance of yours! My Client was so amazed at the results, she took me to dinner, shopping and she is still showing her appreciation in more ways than one! Keep up the good work Wildform! -- --D'Angelo Dixon, Beyondtv.com

Ahem.

Sometimes we don't even know the power of WildPresenter.

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Hi,
We've been running the Sites We Like section in our newsletter for years and it's always been popular, so I'm creating a new Sites We Like section here.

I've been following the media and bloggers on the TED Conference that ended last weekend. (We've featured the Ted Talks on the Sites We Like section of our newsletter before. I recommend taking a moment to watch their video of lectures from amazing inventors, artists, scientists, technologists, activists, and mavericks.)

Every year, the TED conference organizers award prizes to people to have their wish fulfilled. One of last year's prize winners, Cameron Sinclair, is an architect and founder of Architecture for Humanity. (You can watch a video of Cameron Sinclair on th TED site.)

This week in fulfillment of his wish, Cameron and the folks at Architecture for Humanity launched a Web site called the Open Architecture Network.

His wish is to solve global, social and humanitarian crisis with design. Right now one in seven people live in slum settlements. By 2020 it will be one in three. He wants his site to be a catalyst for an architectural revolution that will improve worldwide living conditions on a mass scale. The Open Architecture Network is an "online, open source community dedicated to improving living conditions through innovative and sustainable design."

It's a beautiful idea -- and it's not surprising that a group of architects who want to spearhead an architectural revolution would represent their mission with a beautiful, well-designed website.

In the spirit of the democratization of technology that prevails at the TED conference and in the mission of Open Architecture Network, I want to let you know how easy it is for anyone to create in WildPresenter the beautiful slideshow featured on the front page of OAN's site.

In ten minutes, I created a template in WildPresenter of the slide show you see on their front page.

You can download this template (3.1 MB) and open it in either your WildPresenter license, or your free WildPresenter demo.

I invite you to use it as a guide for creating your own work. And if you use it to help improve the world like the good folks at OAN, or have something you're proud of and would like to share, let me know.

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