Birmingham, West Midlands -- (SBWIRE) -- 07/28/2011 -- Blueberry Software Ltd has launched a major new version of its best-selling screen recording software - BB FlashBack 3.

BB FlashBack 3 has been redesigned to help screen recorder users create even more sophisticated and effective screencasts. Whether annotating a webcast, developing a polished tutorial, demonstrating a sales product, or creating a screencast for friends or your social network, BB FlashBack 3 helps movie makers deliver engaging content – faster and easier than ever before.

What's new in BB FlashBack 3

• New Recorder User Interface – a sleek, new user interface that places more features directly to hand, making it easier to work with in-movie objects like textboxes, images, highlights and so on.
• Insert Arrow Tool – Call attention to events in the movie. The new Insert Arrow tool can create a limitless number of arrow styles by selecting from a combination of key properties.
• Watermarks - Add your branding to the movie. Simply load your watermark image; choose its colour, opacity, size and position.
• Start and End Titles – Add start and end titles to your creative masterpiece for that finishing touch.
• Insert Video Files - Add a video file to your project to add interest or clarify a point, and choose how it will look in your presentation.
• Invisible Keystrokes – Display invisible keystrokes such as function keys, so that the viewer can see exactly what you did during recording.
• Scheduled Recording – Particularly useful for recording webinars and other online events. Set BB FlashBack 3 to schedule a recording at a specific date and start/end time, or when a specific application or process begins.
• Text Formatting – More control over text formatting in text boxes, giving you more choice over how your screen recording looks.
• Export To Apple Devices – Export in a format compatible with Apple devices. Whether you want to view the movie on a Mac, iPhone or iPad, you can now ensure it works on your target Apple device.
• Precision Sound Editing - comprehensive inbuilt sound editing, with tracks shown as waveforms, which can be selected and manipulated in the same way as movie footage. Now includes:

* Noise removal
* Compress/Normalize volume
* Fade audio clips in and out at any point in your video

Other features include:

• Webcam and Picture-in-Picture Video - for creating "talking head" presentations and picture-in-picture video.
• Pause Objects - create pauses in the movie in a more user-friendly way, by adding pause objects rather than by inserting frames – an intuitive change to the way things were done before, making it much easier to add a pause in the timeline.
• Recording wizard - a step-by-step guide for beginners.
• Highlight tool - to draw viewer's attention to key sections of the screen.
• Mouse movement correction - re-record mouse actions into smooth, 'straight-line', flowing movements.
• Video hosting sites - It's never been easier to share your movies with the world. Upload HD-quality videos in one click to YouTube, Blip.tv, Viddler and Revver.
• Flexible Publishing - You decide how your screen recording is presented. Export your movie to Flash, QuickTime (H264), WMV, AVI, EXE or PowerPoint.

David Francis, Project Manager for BB FlashBack, said: "BB FlashBack has always been a first-class screen recorder and we're very proud of the changes we've made to BB FlashBack 3. This new version addresses the needs of todays' screen movie makers - from sales and marketing pros to YouTube and social network devotees - who use images and video to tell stories, introduce new ideas, and troubleshoot problems quickly.

"We've improved the user interface and added a new arsenal of editing tools. As with any reboot of a classic, it's worth taking the time to explore these new tools, as they've been designed to help users take screen movie production to the next level.

"Ultimately, we've worked hard to create an application that in the end simplifies the process of screen recording, and offers high-end features at outstanding value.

"These are changes that users requested. We listened to feedback and have given version 3 an array of must-have and sought-after features that we are confident will appeal to both professional and novice screencast movie makers alike."

BB FlashBack is free to download on a 30-day trial, and is free to customers who have purchased BB FlashBack since 31st Dec 2010. Earlier purchasers can upgrade for only $99.

Details are available from http://www.bbsoftware.co.uk/

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Blueberry Software Ltd has released a major upgrade to its innovative screen-recorder-based software testing tool for developers and testers - BB TestAssistant Version 3.0.

Birmingham, West Midlands -- (SBWIRE) -- 12/07/2010 -- Designed to make accurate reporting of complex defects easy, BB TestAssistant is an innovative screen-recorder-based software testing tool that puts vital information at the fingertips of developers.

Key features in the new version include:

• Log Import - automatically import log files during test and display them alongside the movie, allowing a developer to see what was happening on the desktop and in the application.
• Integration Support - automatically upload bug reports to issue-tracking systems.
• Real Time Operation – embeds local time into the recording, allowing a user to jump to any time during playback.
• Notes Support – make quick notes during recording that appear in playback.
• Projects - define projects with common configuration settings.
• Thumbnail Navigation / Activity Monitor - browse thumbnails taken from the movie of specific events, such as application activation, mouse clicks etc.
• TA API - BB TestAssistant provides a COM and EXE API for users to automatically start / stop recordings.
• Remove Inactive Periods - identify and remove periods of inactivity within a movie.
• Auto-Pause - option to only record periods of time while the mouse or keyboard is being used.
• Hide Other Processes - security / data protection feature which restricts BB TestAssistant to record only a specific set of processes.
• Add Watermark - to show copyright or movie source.
• Export to Word - mark important points in a movie, add notes, then produce a Word doc containing screenshots of all these points – perfect for making test scripts.
• Export Notes / Markers to XML / Text - allowing testers to automate connections between notes and movie data.
• Simple API for Upload and Publishing - making it easy for developers to integrate BB TestAssistant 3.0 with bug-tracking systems.
• Minimise Movie File Size - setup BB TestAssistant to make recordings at speeds as low as 1 frame per second.

David Francis, Project Manager for BB TestAssistant, said: "Software testing involves using a newly developed system or application under controlled conditions in an attempt to make things go wrong - in other words to see if things happen when they shouldn't or don't happen when they should.

"We've worked hard to create an application that simplifies the process of reporting defects, and offers outstanding value with high-end features at a low price.

"BB TestAssistant is easy to use and flexible enough to be incorporated into existing test protocols. Testers need no special training or skills to use it.

"We've listened to feedback, and version 3.0 has an array of must-have and sought-after features that we are confident will appeal to professional developers and testers."

Software testing usually involves software testers working to agreed-upon standards and following set procedures in order to satisfy rigorous quality assurance protocols, as a bug found after releasing the software can be both expensive to rectify, damaging to the reputation of the developer and raise security implications for the customer.

David said: "Software testing should always be a vital part of the software development process and its value should never be under-estimated. However, organisations can vary considerably in how they assign responsibility for QA and testing. We are seeing a continuing trend for companies of all sizes to outsource testing, and this can increase the likelihood of communications problems - exactly the kind of problem BB TestAssistant has been designed to combat.

"Blueberry's BB TestAssistant has been designed to make it easy for QA staff, wherever they may be, to show defects instead of trying to describe them. A user simply clicks 'Record', step through a wizard, and the test is being recorded. When a bug is found, the user can save the recording or add a note. There's also the option to automatically create a default with the recording attached, on JIRA and TRAC bug tracking systems."

Reviewing the recording is easy for the developer, thanks to a user interface that lets them get straight to the points of interest. If log files or the Windows event log are imported, they can be seen side-by-side with the movie.

BB TestAssistant is free to download as a 30-day trial.

For more information on BB TestAssistant Pro Edition or BB TestAssistant Expert Edition, please visit http://www.bbtestassistant.com

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