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Ultra Mashup Studio is a unique Rich Internet Application (RIA) technology created by Softech WorldWide LLC. to enable users to combine various media types to create a rich media output, and to combine with it, the technology to obtain feedback and behavior data from the viewers side.
Key Features |
- Completely browser based functionality
- Rich Internet Application based on Microsoft Silverlight 2.0
- Active Preview, Slide Viewer, Content Browser and Timeline panels each with rich features
- Very user friendly, yet rich in features
- Combine any number of videos, audio, images, captions and “feedback forms” (such as quizzes and surveys)
- Source media from existing file-sharing sites, your own content libraries, or upload new files
- Does not alter any of the original media files. The player delivers the original media files as is, with overlayed Mashup elements as designed in the studio. The media therefore plays from its original location.
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Content Browser |
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- A tab each for Video, Sound, Image, Caption, Form and Slide content types
- Thumbnail and list-view displays
- Ability to search and filter results
- Detailed content information via “Info-tip” upon mouse-hover on each item
- Upload video, Sound, images and presentation files (such as PDF, PowerPoint presentations, Word documents, Excel sheets, etc.) to the Content Library
- Specify URLs of externally available video, audio and image files to include
- Design text captions and feedback forms on the spot
- Single-click on any item to preview videos, audio and image files
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Timeline |
- A track each for Video, Audio, Image, Caption, Form and Slide content types
- Multiple overlapping and sequential contents possible in each track
- Select a portion ("slice") of video/audio file to include in Mashup
- Specify time-start and end for each media element
- Advanced toolbar launches advanced settings form for each item
- Show minutes or seconds on timescale
- Sort elements by content type or start time
- Add "milestone" markers at different time spots to gather viewership data for tracked spots
- Add "chapters" to demarcate time segments into sections
- Ability to overlap chapters
- View elements by chapters or content types
- Chapters browser fly-in lets easy management of chapters
- Specify title, description and precise start and end time for each chapter
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Active Preview |
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- Drag-to-place videos, images and captions
- Advanced toolbar launches advanced settings form for each item
- Bring-to-front and send-to-back for visual elements
- Drag to resize for videos and images
- Play to preview mashup before publishing
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Slide Viewer |
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- View page-by-page slides of uploaded documents
- Each document converted to XPS format
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Advanced Settings |
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- Precise start and end times upto milliseconds
- Volume and opacity settings
- Multiple size and position options
- Ability to pause other contents or mute other sounds when a file is played
- Multiple resume options
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Content Types and Formats |
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- Video: VC-1 and WMV supported at this time. Support for other formats will be added soon.
- Audio: MP3 and WMA supported at this time. Support for other formats will be added soon.
- Images: JPG, PNG,
- Captions: Designed using Ultra Mashup Studio
- Feedback Forms: Designed using Ultra Mashup Studio
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Publishing |
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- Save Mashup as Draft
- Specify title, description and keywords
- Associate to categories
- Save newly created content (captions and forms) to Content Library
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Caption and Form Designer |
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- Quiz and Survey type forms
- Automatic scoring (marking/grading) of quiz type forms
- Ability to play Mashup from selected chapter based on quiz answers
- Text (descriptive), single-choie and multiple-choice questions
- Ability to specify scores (marks) and hints with each question
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