Overview
The Quikscribe Tutor is a modified version of the Quikscribe Recorder. With it, you can easily make professional in-house C.B.T. (Computer Based Training) content real-time.

Traditionally to make C.B.T. content, it required a large investment in time, but now with the Quikscribe Tutor you can now record, capture, edit and create web-ready C.B.T. content seamlessly behind any Windows based program in real-time.

Once you have captured and created your training content, you have the option to do post editing using Sound Forge for the audio or Photo Shop etc with your images.

Once you are happy with the content and the timing of the presentation you can compile and distribute your training content via LAN, WAN, Intranet, Internet, e-mail or CD-ROM.

Finished training content can then be used in three ways (stages)
1) Show Me - The user is shown how to complete a task or procedure.
2) Guide Me - The user is guided (step by step) through a task or procedure.
3) Let Me - The user has gained sufficient knowledge at this stage and practices on their own.

Able to do post editing of timing
After you have captured your content (audio and visual), it is possible to change the timing or sequence of your presentation.

Ability to display BMP, PNG, JPEG & WMF
All screen shots captured, are initially saved as BMP, but from a distribution perspective BMP's are very large. Therefore it is suggested that you use the built-in PNG and JPEG compression capabilities, so as to significantly reduce file size. If your presentation requires text, graphs or charts to be displayed, WMF files from Microsoft Power Point can be imported and displayed. Lastly, from presentation perspective, if you require Screen Wipes, there is over 100 transitions to chose from.

Ability to open embedded files
Almost any type of file can be embedded into the C.B.T. Content For example, a mail merge tutorial can contain a sample letter and a sample database, with which a student can then use do the mail merge tutorial with.

Ability to fire URL's or e-mail addresses
If you wish to create web related C.B.T. tutorials, now you can. Simply insert the URL or e-mail address and when the C.B.T. Content is viewed, the corresponding web site will automatically load.

Finished files are Web ready
The Quikscribe Tutor uses multiple compression technologies, as a result is produces very small files. To demonstrate, click here to download and view some sample tutorials.

Works behind almost any Windows program
Since the Quikscribe Tutor uses a Hand Control as it's primary input and control method, it is able to seamlessly record and edit behind almost any other type of Windows program. Exception being an application that uses the sound card, in which case content can still be created, but not in real-time.

How much training content can be produced and saved on a standard CD-ROM (650Meg) using the Quikscribe Recorder?
Whenever the Quikscribe Recorder captures screen shots, it captures them in a BMP format. Which is good from a post editing perspective as captured images can easily be edited in Microsoft Paint etc. However from a distribution perspective the file file size of a BMP is not suitable.

For this reason, the Quikscribe Recorder has image compression capabilities built-in, whereby it possible to compress images using either PNG or JPEG. For example, an average 800x600 24 Bit screen shot is about 1.44 Meg, however once compressed as PNG image it will only take up about 25K per image. That's works out to be a 70:1 compression ratio!

Now if you were to take 5 screen shots per minute while recording your presentation content using a 8Khz compressed audio sample rate, you could record, capture and save up to 48 hours of training content on a single CD-ROM, with a total of 14,400 screen shots.

Is it possible to import slides directly from Microsoft Power Point?
YES - But before you attempt to do this, make sure that your Page Set-up in Power Point is correct. For some crazy reason, MS Power Point does not provide a simple method to export a 800x600 slides or a 640x480 slides, instead the default output is resolution is 720x540.

The good news is that the 720x540 output resolution is actually a 4:3 ratio, which means it possible to work backwards and come up with a magic number which equals 0.035275. If you multiple this magic number by the resolution you want e.g. 800x600 it means you need to change the page set-up to a Width to 28.22cm and Height to 21.17cm. However to save you time, you can simply download the Power Point Templates Files (.pot) on the right which have already been set-up correctly.