ScreenWatch Today
Since the original ScreenWatch White Paper was published in May 1999, the OPTX International development team has been extending the ScreenWatch capabilities to meet customer requirements. OPTX International's ScreenWatch™ Producer 5.6 software makes recording, streaming, archiving, and publishing presentations, workplace communications, and standup classroom instruction better than ever before. User friendly ScreenWatch delivers professional publishing with a host of new features ranging from auto publishing for multiple bandwidths to powerful advanced editing capabilities. The significant new functions are:

• OPTX Screen Capture Codec Version 9 plug-in
  OPTX Screen Capture Codec Version 9 plug-in automatically publishes a single recording for streaming to multiple bandwidths, including 56k dial up, DSL, and broadband. This software offers lower bandwidths for live Webcasting and advanced-user editing for client-side rendered transitions between screen clips.
  
  
• Customized Presentations and SCORM-Compliant Publishing ScreenWatch publishes directly to Learning Management Systems. And with eight publishing templates, including four templates that are SCORM-compliant, ScreenWatch customizes the look and feel of each published presentation.
  
  
• Easy-To-Use Recording and Publishing
  The Click and Stream Wizard™ takes presenters step-by-step through the simple recording process. It blends screen capture, audio, video, and automatically launches PowerPoint, Virtual Ink's mimeo® whiteboard, and other applications; simply recording and publishing workplace and classroom presentations.
  
  
• Randomly Accessed Presentation Contents.
  The Slide Navigator™, utilizing the ScreenWatch Producer dynamically created table of contents, allows the viewer to randomly access presentation contents.
  
  
• Presentation Management
  The ScreenWatch Presentation Manager tracks lectures published to local desktops, streaming servers, and CD-ROMs, and prints reports indicating lecture locations. Users view and print reports indicating the status of published and unpublished projects and their file locations.
  
  
• World-class Milori Training Tools
  ScreenWatch works with the world-class Milori Training Tools that help create dynamic presentations with such real-time functions as screen markup, highlighting mouse clicks, capturing still screen shots, application launching, and magnifying key points presented on a computer display.
  
  
• Multiple Serving Environments for Deployment
  ScreenWatch Producer is the only screen capture software supporting RealServer, Linux®, Solaris™, HP-UX, and Windows 2000/NT systems. ScreenWatch supports Helix™ Producer and Firewire. ScreenWatch records using Windows 2000 and XP. ScreenWatch Producer includes additional audio support for Windows Media.
  
  
• Localized Language Support
  ScreenWatch Producer includes localized Chinese and Japanese language support.
  
  
• Simplified Live Webcasting using RealServer
  ScreenWatch makes live webcasting your screens and PowerPoint presentations as easy as using the RealNetworks encoder. A familiar interface allows you to connect to both local and remote RealServers, combining audio, or video using the SMIL language. ScreenWatch supports both Unicast and Multicast live streaming and is an optional component to the ScreenWatch recording system.
  
  
• High Bandwidth mode for recording Flash, Video and Highly Animated Productions
  ScreenWatch has a special recording mode that minimizes network and CPU load so that you can capture full motion video, flash animations and other animated productions in their native state. This mode delays compression and network transfer and writes the capture data directly to the disk. This allows ScreenWatch to capture high amounts of data from the screen insuring the highest possible screen capture quality available. This option is for presentations where streaming bandwidth is not a concern.
  
  
• Windows Media Support
  ScreenWatch allows you to convert your ScreenWatch files into Windows Media Version 7 Screen Code files. This function combines an audio WAV file with a ScreenWatch (sc) file and creates a single WMV (Windows Media Video) file. This allows both stand alone playback under Windows Media Player, as well as streaming the file from a Windows Media Streaming Server.
  
  
• Windows 2000 and XP Support
  The ScreenWatch Recording system allows you to record a Windows 2000 or XP Desktop at full 16 bit color depths. It also supports recording in 16-color mode.
  
  
• Multiple ScreenWatch Stream Playback Support
  ScreenWatch will allow you to use multiple concurrent ScreenWatch streams in the RealNetworks RealPlayer. This is useful for combining PowerPoint with Screen Capture in the same presentation playing at the same time.