Accordent Capture Station is a fully integrated hardware-software solution. With it you get an easy way to record and synchronize multiple input sources - audio, video and the output for any data presentation device, from a smart-board to your notebook PC.

But that's not all.

The key to Capture Station is that it takes all of these different input sources, syncs them up and instantly transforms the results into an online rich media presentation.

Think of it as a broadcasting studio in a box.

The input sources can include:

• All images from an RGB/VGA output device
• Any files projected on-screen, or shared during the presentation
• Images captured from a Smart-board or document camera
• Files shared during a video conference

In short, if you have a presentation that you can show or project to your live audience in the conference center, you can use Accordent to broadcast it or to make it available in an on-demand version without hiring a multimedia squad. With a selection of professional-looking customizable interfaces to choose from, you can ensure your presentation will make its impact even when there is little time to prepare it for internal distribution.

What is particularly positive for you as a business executive, is the fact that once you have set up your presentation inside Accordent, you can go about giving your presentation exactly as you would usually, without having to worry about the process of recording or putting it together. The Capture Station acts as a hub for your camera, presentation tools and system audio and pulls the whole lot together, ready to be delivered live or on-demand.

The ease with which Capture Station can be used, however, does not mean that it doesn't have powerful administrative features for the more advanced user to make use of.

These include:

• The ability to set capture sensitivity to let the system know how often, or to what degree of on-screen motion, it should capture images
• Advanced media settings for the video formats used by Capture Station
• Activation and set up of remote control of the Capture Station, whether using a web device or Telnet
• Many more granular settings too numerous to list here

Capture Station also allows you to easily publish to your existing CMS or automatically to a custom content portal using the Accordent Media Management System, whereby users can access content directly or leverage Accordent search technology to find specific information.

Furthermore, if integrated with Accordent PresenterPLUS, your Capture Station presentations can be edited and resynchronized easily after the fact, before being published.

Capture Station Technical Specifications

Though you as a customer, are not forced to buy this optimized solution, the default Capture Station offering makes use of a custom IBM tower, with three years support from the manufacturer. System specs include:

• Intel 2.8 GHZ Dual Core Processor
• 512 MB RAM
• 80 GB Hard Drive
• DVD-Rom / CD-RW
• Audio / Video Card
• RGB Capture card

Further to these hardware specifications (I would personally have liked to have seen a little more system memory right from the start, but given that the system hosts software tailor-made for it, I am sure that this doesn't negatively impact on performance), the Capture Station has the following requirements for end users:

• Real Media Player 9 or 10 or Windows Media Player 9 or 10
• Internet Explorer

While such Windows-only-based requirements may somehow limit end user access, (but again we are looking at a product to be mostly used inside the firewall and therefore in a "controlled" environment") Accordent has not added any requirement for additional proprietary plug-ins. As such the majority of Windows users should have no problem accessing Accordent-based presentations.

(Real Player Plugin required)

Capture Station Demo Start with this brief overview to see how it works.

Capture Station (How does it work? - Demo)
Start with this brief overview to see how it works.

Accordent now also provides podcasting support for its award-winning Capture Station and PresenterPLUS solutions. Now, presenters need only to check a box in Capture Station or PresenterPLUS to create a podcast of their live or on demand online presentation. The audio podcast then can be archived for review, automatically published to an online portal, or made available via RSS feed.