jukhooa
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| Posted: 08/30/2004, 10:49 AM |
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Hi,
Any news on the democharge product?
The demo I received with the 2.3 CCS release looked good.
Regards, Anand.
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peterr
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| Posted: 08/30/2004, 10:52 AM |
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DemoCharge should be released in the 2nd half of September.
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Nick2004
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| Posted: 08/31/2004, 9:29 PM |
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Peter,
do you have any demo examples in FLASH?
We'd be very interested in purchasing several DemoCharges if the quality and the size of the demos will be as good as V-----tBuilder's ones by Q-----n
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peterr
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| Posted: 08/31/2004, 10:01 PM |
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Sorry, not yet. The version that generates Flash and Java Applets will be available several months after the GIF and AVI version.
We're definitely focusing on outputting minimal file sizes.
The initial, GIF version will cost around $50 and should be great for including animations in emails and help files, like this one: http://www2.codecharge.com/dc-temp/DemoChargeManual.html .
And here is a "Flash-like" demo: http://support.codecharge.com/dc_demo/
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jukhooa
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| Posted: 09/01/2004, 12:04 AM |
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thanks peter.
looks good.
Anand.
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Nick2004
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| Posted: 09/01/2004, 3:29 PM |
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Sounds good Peter.
Are you going to incorporate smooth cursor movements, links to other demos & web pages & other features for FLASH version?
Thanks
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peterr
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| Posted: 09/01/2004, 3:38 PM |
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Sorry, I do not have such information at this time.
I suspect though that we want to have those, and even more features 
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Alexander
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| Posted: 09/15/2004, 2:28 AM |
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Hello Nick!
What do you mean exactly "links to other demos & web pages" ?
Do you mean ability to insert some hot places in presentation.
Then the user may click on such place and redirect to specified URL.
Do you mean such feature?
Thanks,
Alex
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peterr
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| Posted: 09/15/2004, 1:51 PM |
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I just wanted to say that DemoCharge has been released yesterday and is now available on our Website. This is the version that generates animated GIFs, but not Flash yet.
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jukhooa
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| Posted: 09/16/2004, 12:44 AM |
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Hi,
I have downloaded the evalutation version and it is looking good.
I think it would be a good thing... when people buy the upcoming professional version... they would also receive the current "demoCharge standaard 2004" product. This way they could start now and smoothly upgrade when that version becomes available.
Cheers, Anand.
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Nick2004
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| Posted: 09/16/2004, 12:20 PM |
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Peter,
I've looked at the features of both versions (Standard & Pro)
Standard version is affordable but there are at least 10 or so FREE utilities on the web for compiling animated tutorials in GIF & avi formats. Some are very easy to use.
Pro version is going to compete against an exellent product which is priced exactly as your pro version -$199
What was that "fraction of the price" talk?
The competitor offers unlimited trial with watermarked output & huge number of design features and opions.
I'm not sure what would be DemoCharge's advantages over this sofware...?
They have thousands of clients like IBM, Intel, SAP, Oracle, Philips...
Have you at least looked at Q----n.com website?
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peterr
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| Posted: 09/16/2004, 10:19 PM |
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Nick,
Our current focus is on creating demo GIFs for including in emails, Web, support, knowledge base, etc., and the fact is that no one does it better for $50 or less. And our Pro version may still include the features of Q's Pro version, which actually costs $499, not $199. We already have the Timeline view, which even Q Pro for $499 doesn't, therefore I see that you are being selective in your comparison.
And I'm not reallly sure what you are so aggreviated about. I don't go to various Websites pointing that someone else has more customers (how could a new product have more customers anyway), or that I can buy another product, or compare pricing, or claim that a version 1.0 of a new product is not as good yet as version 4 of another product, etc. If you are not interested then I'm sorry, but please indeed choose the product that is most useful to you.
And please take it easy
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Adam2004
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| Posted: 09/17/2004, 11:20 AM |
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Peterr
I hope you've noticed that this guy Nick came here specifically to challenge you. All his posts indicate that he doesn't care about any of your features but *wants* an exact copy of QVB. I'm glad that your product is more original than that crap. If he looked at DemoCharge he would see that your features are different, original, and worth 500 bucks. Now let's see them in QVB.
I for one am having a blast with DC! Congratulations!
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Nick2004
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| Posted: 09/17/2004, 11:30 AM |
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Peter,
I apologize for the tone of my previous post.
Sorry.
I'm very interested in Yes's products & I want them to be the best on the market.
Timeline view would be an excellent feature because many times you have to jump back several frames and Q let it do frame-by-frame only .
Now I know that you are on the write track & I wish that you could release Pro version sooner.
Best regards,
Nick
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peterr
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| Posted: 09/17/2004, 5:40 PM |
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Thanks Nick.
And I also think that we will need more time to catch up with some features, while we hope that we already offer good value. Even if you cannot wait and decide to obtain another Flash tool sooner, then the $50 dollar version of our product could still have some interesting additional uses because GIFs are easier to include in an email, in Help files, or as inline content in Web articles. That's why I'm not even sure if we have to compete so much with Flash creation tools, while there are still so many other applications for GIFs that many people haven't thought of, or haven't had the right tools for.
However I've seen an internal Flash demo already that looked quite good, therefore I also hope that we will have this available soon.
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Nick2004
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| Posted: 09/18/2004, 4:20 PM |
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Hi Peter,
Can project files created with the current version of DemoCharge be imported into the professional version when it will become available?
I guess that we can use GIFs demos for 3-4 months and re-generate output after pro is released...
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Eladesor
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| Posted: 09/18/2004, 4:27 PM |
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Thanks for another great product :)
Just purchased it and finding it very easy to use..... will be a great help in creating support files - especially for those frequently asked questions ;)
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peterr
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| Posted: 09/18/2004, 4:43 PM |
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Nick,
Good point. Looks like I'll also need to open some projects with the Professional version, therefore I'll make sure that the older projects can be opened, or imported there.
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alejandro lengua
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| Posted: 09/19/2004, 3:45 PM |
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Does it mean that the Pro version has not being released yet?
I thought it has.
BTW I have found a cheap utility for converting Animated GIFs to Flash
for $25, I wonder if we could use with Democharge.
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peterr
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| Posted: 09/20/2004, 12:44 AM |
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The Pro version wasn't released yet indeed. Some information about that version is at http://www.yessoftware.com/purchase/product.php?product_id=19
As for GIF to Flash conversion tool, here is one for $10 that works with GIFs created by DemoCharge: http://www.gfx2swf.com/gif2swf/
However, the generated Flash doesn't include time scale or controls for stopping, pausing, rewinding, etc.
I don't know if the other tool you found does that. Possibly they have an evaluation version that you could try.
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MIkeC
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| Posted: 09/30/2004, 8:35 PM |
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I've already congratulated you by email but wanted to say here what a fine product you have. In regard to some earlier comments. I've worked with a number of those products - CS, RD, Q'S VB. Its our business. None of them got where they are by version 1 so the comparison is a little unfair. Of those tools only one of them outputs AVI so the comparisons to QVB for example are not accurate comparisons.
To be honest I have never even noticed an output to animated GIF before among any of those products. I know RD does NOT have that and from what I can see neither does Q's VB so the road is still very much wide opened for democharge to pioneer it. I also can see some pretty useful uses for animated gifs within help files.
As a professional trainer I am not at all dying for flash output. There are enough "me too" products doing that and alot of them have been doing it longer and have greater brand recognition. What everyone seems to ignore is that over 90% commercial training that is sold is AVI based and that is primarily because flash and swf in particular is not up to the task of protecting digital rights. If you don't mind your work being hacked and copied then its fine but if you want to protect your work while distributing it flash is useless and believe me we have had some of our flash work ripped off so its a very real issue to us. Yessoftware has a nice system so far and there is only one other primary competitor in the AVI market that compares (and we hate their captioning system). FLV would be a great output as well.
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