Editor's Choice Software
WildPresenter Pro
Reviewed by Terrance Kibiloski
WildPresenter Pro is one of those larger than life products that presents an editor a real challenge to include all of its great features in one review. This is an incredible program that will help even beginners look like multimedia presentation professionals.
Combining 8 essential presentation programs into 1 product, WildPresenter Pro (Retail $299), from Wildform, is an incredible software product that will help you easily create outstanding Flash presentations, product demos, training videos, and sales & marketing materials. Since WildPresenter Pro is sold and distributed exclusively on the Internet, the folks at Wildform have gone out of their way to provide every imaginable tool to help you get started and produce incredible presentations for virtually every audience, whether on the Web or in the boardroom.
At the main WildPresenter Pro Web site, you will find a host of features to introduce you to the product and to get you started on your journey to great presentations: demos, examples, templates, training, and tutorials, all developed with WildPresenter Pro itself. As Darth Vader would say, "Impressive!" As you enjoy and learn from these Web-based tools, you realize that everything you are watching is something you can do with WildPresenter Pro as well, with relatively little effort. The brief demo (screen shown below) takes you through many of the features of WildPresenter Pro.
When you complete the demo, you can go to a screen that provides many more opportunities to see the full capabilities of WildPresenter Pro.
Each one of the options provides an impressive example of one of more of this product's capabilities. For example, the Real Estate Presentation will take you to a very impressive Web site that features a full video of the home on display, all being done using WildPresenter Pro.
The examples not only show you the many features of this great product, they provide exciting ideas for you to use in your own presentations and Web sites. During our review, we found ourselves being impressed time and time again. Not only is this an exciting product, but the way it is presented on the Web is also exciting. Few products, from the largest of companies, have a more impressive set of examples and tutorials to help both the new and seasoned user to hit the ground running and become productive in such a short period of time. An excellent example is the text animator tutorial (screen shown below).
The eight key features of WildPresenter Pro are:
One of our tests we did during our review was to convert a PowerPoint presentation, with an imbedded design template, to a flash presentation for the Web. This PowerPoint presentation was filled with large photo images and was over 8 megabyes in size. WildPresenter Pro converted this large PowerPoint file to a small 283 kilobyte files in just a few seconds. We were very impressed with the accuracy of the conversion. The flash file, created by WildPresenter Pro, was identical to the original PowerPoint Presentation. We followed the online tutorial instructions to the tee on how to use the new flash file with Microsoft FrontPage and found them to be very well written and easy to understand. You can see an example of this converted and uploaded file at http://computertimes.com/getthemost.htm
Everything about WildPresenter Pro is impressive, from the actual product to the excellent examples, tutorials, and support available online. If you are looking for a software product to help you make multimedia presentations, product demos, videos, tutorials, announcements, slide shows, marketing plans, business proposals, multimedia Web sites and CD-ROMs, flowcharts or diagrams, look no further than WildPresenter Pro. It doesn't get any better than this.
Now for all of you techies out there who love to read about every possible feature.
Screen Recording
Easily create demos, tutorials & simulations
PowerPoint to Flash converter
Import, edit, enhance and convert your PowerPoint files to Flash
Video, audio & image converter
Add impact with video, audio and images
Drawing, text & flowcharting tools
Add color and style to your projects
Video & audio capture
Produce your own video announcements and voice overs
Text effects generator
Generate impressive text animations in seconds
Animation and transition engine
Make your projects look like they were created by a Flash whiz
User friendly editor
Create Flash files without knowing Flash
Automated Flash Features
Import Formats
Export Formats
WildPresenter System Requirements
WildPresenter Pro is only sold and distributed electronically by Wildform, which means you must have an Internet connection and be on-line to purchase and complete the software installation. You will need a computer with
Additional Requirements: