3.1 New Features

The following changes are features in Focus 3.1 in comparison to Focus 3.0.

LMS Plug-ins – New LMS support added

• ANGEL
  • Single sign-on
  • Provisioning (single or multiple folder(s))
  • Automatic publishing of new Panopto sessions
• WebCT
  • Single sign-on
  • Provisioning (single folder)
  • Direct links from WebCT course pages to Panopto folder view

Panopto Editor

• Added “save and continue” / “save and quit” save modes
• Better layout for smaller screen sizes
• Editor layout more closely matches viewer
• Timeline view moved to right of table of contents
• Timeline view simplified
  • streams/segments moved to tabs in session of contents
  • events/streams/segments edit modes accessible through tabs
• Improved navigation - Click on timeline to seek
• Improved segmenting – Ctrl-click and drag or use “cut mode”
• Easily merge sessions to stitch together multi-part recordings for seamless playback

Panopto Focus Recorder

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• Fixed video aspect ratio for 16:9 inputs
• Much better screen capture performance on Windows 7
• Secondary camera & screencapture framerates up to 30 fps in Windows 7
• Secondary cameras default to high-resolution modes
• Secondary devices share screen capture maximum resolution and framerate
• Reduced resolution modes for high-framerate capture of onscreen video playback
• "Minimize on start recording" option
• Better PowerPoint start options
• Long questions in broadcast mode display correctly

Remote Recorder

• Remote recorder name defaults to computer hostname if left blank during install

Panopto Web Interface

• Improved "outputs" tab in session details window shows all viewer formats and feeds
• Select between picture-in-picture, mixed video, primary-only, secondary-only, and audio-only podcast format
• Support for sharing folders and sessions with ActiveDirectory groups (rather than list of group users)
• Filter search results and folder lists by date range
• Display 5, 10, 25, 50, or all results per page
• See system and filesystem usage in new System->Usage tab
  • Number of sessions
  • Hours Recorded Sort
  • Views Sort
  • Hours Viewed
  • Disk Space Used

Panopto Viewer

• Flash/HTML5 "embed" support for podcast video
• Flash/HTML5 viewer shows alongside prompt to install Silverlight when Silverlight is not installed
• HTML5 embedded viewer plays in page on iOS devices

Data Server

• All services can be run in parallel up to 64 servers (up to 1024 encoding processes)