Associated Software
Due to increasing technology standards, visualizers are now capable of communicating with laptops, MACs and PCs. Visualizer manufacturers are providing software to boost productivity and provide drivers to ensure faultless image transfer. The images produced by visualizers can now be incorporated into the visualizerÕs software which is adaptable with one or more imaging standards (.gif, jpg, etc...).
What can this software really do?
Visualizer software can perform numerous functions that are only possible when it is in the digital domain. Software can be an extremely powerful tool, some of the functions that they perform are:
- Image capture
- Image storage
- Movie (AVI) record and store (both real-time and time lapse)
- Image manipulation
- Archiving and retrieval
- Undo and redo functions
- Magnify
- Measurement and logging
- Export data to a Microsoft spreadsheet
- Inserting text, drawing functions include - arrows, lines, circles, ellipses, pencil tools
Users can share live video across a network, images can be displayed full screen or within a Graphical User Interface. Images can be emailed and screens can be customized.
Certain software ensures full function remote control can also be carried out and graphical representations of handheld remote controls allow the user to select remote functions on screen.
Available Software
Examples of software are:
- Elmo's Image Mat
- Wolfvision's firmware update software
Interactive Whiteboards have software that is equally, if not more powerful than most Visualizer software that can be used in the integration of images from visualizers into a wide range of content software for presentation.
Popular software packages are:
- SMART Board software
- Promethean's Activprimary
- Activstudio and PX
- RM's Easiteach.