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Maybe it’s just that I’m doing something wrong, but I’ve tried different installations on different machines and….

It takes 5 minutes if you choose the “next 5 slides” option. If you choose to “preview whole movie” and have 120 slides like I do, it takes forever…over 20 minutes.

It doesn’t let you specify how many slides you want to preview, just 5 or all or “from this slide”. No chance to change a few slides and then quickly check how they’ll fit in with the rest of a section.

And you HAVE to preview to see the effect of compression on the images, as it doesn’t happen when you manipulate an individual slide.

And if you accidentally set it previewing, you cannot cancel the jolly thing. Unless you want to exit the program and lose your unsaved data.
Saving takes only a little less time than previewing…so no autosaves. I just made a cup of coffee each time I wanted to save. Opening the file takes ages. And publishing!!! Same as previewing..forever.

It has a lot of great options when you create the screencast..and is an excellent tool for short snappy screen captures. Recording audio is very simple. The E-learning options where you can ask people to click somewhere before continuing, or answer questions and receive scores look great.

I’ve found that when recording mouse movement, it often splits the mouse move onto a different screen or separate slide, or sometimes misses it completely.

Editing was a slow nightmare. I’d expect better from something I paid for.

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