Control Your Present Live Experience

Have you noticed that sometimes, when you are using Present Live conferencing to discuss about a specific slide, some attendees jump to another slide, throwing the discussion off-balance? Well, now there is a solution for this issue.

In the past, when you sent the link to chosen attendees, using the Present Live feature, everybody would have control by default over the slides. The more people you invited to the discussion, the less you could control the slides. authorSTREAM recently released a "control " button, located next to the right arrows button (>>), which has solved the problem

With this new option, presenters can block or unblock attendee capability to take control of the slides. So invited attendees can be controlled to only be able to use the chat and participate in the discussion without the capability of shifting slides.


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authorSTREAM API Web Services Now Live For Websites

authorSTREAM today launched the authorSTREAM API Web Services for easy Web service delivery and interoperability. This new service allows website owners to seamlessly integrate authorSTREAM's Web Services using an API key, in their own websites.

This means that site owners using our Web Services through the API would enable their website users to upload and retrieve PPTs, in their own website, without their visitors even visiting authorSTREAM.

How does the API Web Service work?

The first thing you need to get to have this service on your own Web page is an API key. A developer key or API key is a unique identification for making API requests. This means that once you apply for your API key on our page, you get an authentication that allows you to make requests to our server. In simple words: You will connect your site to our site and let the people who visit yours, do the same things they could do in ours. Sounds good, doesn’t it?

Does it take long to get the API key?

Not at all. After applying for it, you get it instantly, just after providing your email ID and name.
The only thing you need to remember is that the authorSTREAM API Web Services are free only for non-commercial purposes.

With authorSTREAM, the interconnection and interoperability in the PowerPoint space is just starting. Go for ease and quality: simply authorSTREAM.

Get Your API Key Now!

Burn PowerPoint Video on DVD

We usually get queries from our users asking questions like "How can i save PowerPoint videos on my computer?", "How can I burn PowerPoint video on a DVD?", "Can I play PPT video on a DVD player?" etc.

PowerPoint To MP4/M4V

authorSTREAM converts presentations in video(MP4 or M4V) if your PowerPoint presentation has timings. A Presentation is converted to MP4 format only if it has transition sound or audio added through the "Record Narration" feature in PowerPoint. If a PowerPoint file uploaded to authorSTREAM does not have audio, then it will be converted to the M4V format.

Users can download such videos from presentation pages or http://www.authorstream.com/MyUploaded-Presentations/All. Users can burn videos on DVD using any DVD burning software like Nero. Just make sure that the DVD player, on which you play such DVDs, supports M4V/MP4 format.

CD/DVDs of PPT photo albums with music

authorSTREAM comes in handy when you want to play hundreds of your photographs with animations and/or background music on CD/DVD. Use the "Photo Album" feature of PowerPoint to insert all your photographs/images in PowerPoint. Add some animations and transition sound for background music and upload it to authorSTREAM.

You can check the 'Private' option on the upload page if you don't want to display your presentation on authorSTREAM. After a few minutes your PPT presentation will be available on authorSTREAM along with the "Video for IPod" or "Send to YouTube" options.

You can simply download the videos of your photo albums and burn to a CD or DVD to share offline.