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13.3 Release Notes – Available March 25, 2017

1 INXPO CONFIDENTIAL

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WEBCASTING

NEW PRODUCT

INXPO Studio

INXPO is excited to announce the release of the industry’s next generation HTML5 webcasting

platform. With INXPO STUDIO, it is simpler than ever to create compelling webcast

experiences. Users are empowered to create broadcast-quality video, all from an intuitive,

cloud-based platform.

The revolutionary HTML5 technology provides secure, Flash Player free, streaming, animated

content and responsive interaction without the hassle of plug-ins and updates. STUDIO is a

powerful tool that can scale from audio-only to multi-presenter video conferencing

presentations.

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Webcasting Setup The setup of a Studio webcast has been streamlined to make the process extremely simple and

intuitive. INXPO worked directly with a 3rd party UI/UX agency to ensure we were following the

latest trends and principles in product design. Below you will find several examples of the

enhanced sections of the webcast setup.

The Setup interface leverages a new design system that will be consistent across all INXPO

products (Online Events and Video Portals) over time. The design system gives our products a

foundation to build from. The goal of the design system is not only to make the product

intuitive and as fluid as possible but as a reference point and a resource when enhancing and

maintaining the product. The new interface provides a guided path from the initial creation of

the webcast to the end, where you customize your webcast layout.






Registration/Login The Registration and Login sections in Studio have been created with a simple interface that enables administrators to quickly configure their branding, display sections, and registration/login fields.






Messaging Similar to Registration and Login, the Messaging section in Studio allows administrators to quickly view their upcoming distributions, create new messages from a list of pre-defined templates, and customize the text and branding of any message.






Additionally, the messaging scheduling and distribution filters have been designed so administrators can easily configure their distribution date and select the audience that will receive the message.






Users Within the Users section of the setup, administrators will now be able to access the below features that previously were administered independently. By combining all these features into one section, the management of users is streamlined into a centralized location.

- Change Password - Login Activity - Register the User - Boot the User (if logged in) - Delete the User






Presenter Console

With Studio’s newly designed presenter console, we have grouped the features and controls to provide an intuitive flow that allows a staffer to easily manage and deliver the webcast while minimizing the number of clicks.






Console Controls

For Studio, we moved away from putting all the clickable icons on a top toolbar and have placed them along the left and right of the console. All the setup and administrative tools have been moved along the left-hand side as shown below. The engineering tools like “Start/End, Slide Controls, Screen Share, Staff List, Staff Chat, Adding Sources” are conveniently located along the right-hand side.






Broadcast Tools

One of the goals in designing and building the console was to give the engineer(s) the option to produce a powerful, studio-style broadcast without the need of third party video tools such as a Tricaster. With Studio, engineers have the controls to use picture in picture to create conversational style broadcasts by combining multiple sources (webcam, slides, telephony, VCU, screen share, encoder feeds, pre-recorded video) into in a single stream as shown below with multiple speakers.






Additional broadcast tools such as graphic compositing/lower thirds, advanced individual audio controls (high pass, low pass), social streaming (Facebook Live, YouTube) will be part of presenter console in a future release.

Webcast Health Monitoring The most important aspect of a webcast is to ensure your speakers and audience have a good experience while presenting and viewing the webcast. Studio will provide the necessary tools so your engineers can properly monitor the connection status of your speakers and audience. When a speaker source is connected to the console, a status indicator will be displayed next to a preview of their video. This indictor will display a color that signifies the strength of their audio and video connection, providing staffers with a real-time view into the health of the speaker’s connection.






Additionally, if a speaker is having issues and does not have the connection bandwidth to send through a feed at the bitrate configured for the webcast, the engineers can configure the frame size that a specific webcam source can send. Also, if a speaker on webcam is experiencing frequent picture loss and freezing, a hard limit can be set on the video bitrate for a specific webcam source to improve the stream stability for that webcam source.






While the monitoring of a speaker’s connection is extremely important, being able to monitor and report on the connection status of your audience is equally as valuable. With Studio’s Producer Tool (targeted for the June 2017 release), engineers will be able to view the status of all audience members connected to the webcast. The Producer Tool will display a high-level summary of the audience connections along with drill downs that will display the list of audience members and their connection status. Below you will find a mockup of monitoring tool.

Studio Access For those interested in learning more about Studio and viewing a demo of the product please contact your INXPO representative.






Studio Technical Specs

The introduction of HTML5 and browser-based screen sharing leverages modern browsers. The

list of supported modern browsers for attendee viewing, presenters, and presenter screen

sharing are below.






VIDEO PORTALS

UPDATES

Reporting

Groupings have been added as an available column option for the specific set of “C” level

reports, allowing administrators to easily categorize their data based on the grouping(s) they

belong to. Below are the report types where groupings are available:

- User List

- Event Login Detail

- Program Presentation Visits

- Channel Visits

- Program Planned Visitors






XPOCAST PRIME

UPDATES

Webcast Portal

Global registration has been enhanced within the webcast portal to capture the following fields

when a user’s data is sent to the webcast specific data portal.

- Affiliate Data

- Referrer (website URL that the registrant came from)

- IP Address

- Operating System

- Browser






CROSS-PLATFORM FEATURES

UPDATES

Certificates

The certificate editor has been updated to notify the administrator when a missing image has

been saved to the certificate. This ensures that certificates will not be saved and sent to

attendees with an invalid image.






Desktop Browser / OS Support for Release

13.3

Windows 7 11 52 57

Windows 8.1

11

52

57

Windows 10 (Includes Surface Pro 3 and 4)

11 & Edge

52

57

OS X Yosemite (10.10)

(Ending support for OS X Yosemite (10.10) and Safari

8 on June 24, 2017)

52

8

57

OS X El Capitan (10.11)

52

9

57

OS X Sierra (10.12)

52 10 57

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 52 57

*Fedora Linux 23 47

NOTE: For more information on our End of Life Operating System and Browser Support Schedule, please Click

Here.


https://presentations.inxpo.com/SharedContent/HTML/VX/INXPO_EndOfLife_Support.html

https://presentations.inxpo.com/SharedContent/HTML/VX/INXPO_EndOfLife_Support.html





Tablet Browser / OS Support

iPad (2-4), iPad Air, iPad Pro and iPad Mini 8-10

Samsung Galaxy Tab 3, 10.1 57

Google Nexus 7 57

Mobile

Mobile App

Device Support

OS

Versions

Mobile Browser Access

Device Support OS Browser Versions

iTunes Store 9+

iPhone 9+/Safari

Google Play

Store

2.3 - 4+ Android

4.2+/Chrome

Windows Market 8

Windows Phone

*Windows 10 is needed for viewing

XPOCAST






Screen Share:

The Mac Screen Sharing Driver only supports presenters on Mac OS Maverick (10.10) or higher.

Screen Sharing is not supported on Chrome with the Mac OS Maverick (10.10) or higher

Screen Sharing is not supported on Microsoft Edge (on Windows 10). Please use IE 11 for screen sharing on

Windows 10

Screen Share is not supported on Firefox 52

The newest version of the Screen Sharing Driver is required;

o Screen Sharing Download for Windows: https://vts.inxpo.com/cfr/IMCInstaller.exe and

https://vts.inxpo.com/cfr/ChromePlugin.html

o Screen Sharing Download for Linux: https://vts.inxpo.com/cfr/XCSS_Linux.tar

o Screen Sharing Download for Mac: https://vts.inxpo.com/cfr/XCSS_Mac.pkg

Annotations: Users on a browser that does not support annotations will receive the following message "Your

browser does not support our annotations feature. Please use an updated version of your browser, or a different

browser, and try again."

Mobile: Tablets will require the XPOCAST app when launching an FLV XPOCAST webcast.

System Check: Red Hat users will now bypass the browser check within the standard system check process.

Quick Video: Supported on INXPO supported desktops and mobile devices with iOS 9 and higher. *Fedora Linux 23 Is only supported for attendee usage. It is not certified for Speakers or Administrators

NOTE: INXPO does not support beta versions of browsers or compatibility modes as display results can widely vary.

Also, we do not support Private Browsing Mode when accessing from a Mobile Browser.

2017 Release Schedule

Release Time March 25, 2017 - Release 13.3 6am CT until 9am CT / 12pm GMT until 3pm GMT

June 24, 2017 - Release 13.4 6am CT until 9am CT / 12pm GMT until 3pm GMT

September 23, 2017 - Release 13.5 6am CT until 9am CT / 12pm GMT until 3pm GMT

December 16, 2017 - Release 13.6 6am CT until 9am CT / 12pm GMT until 3pm GMT


https://vts.inxpo.com/cfr/IMCInstaller.exe

https://vts.inxpo.com/cfr/ChromePlugin.html

https://vts.inxpo.com/cfr/XCSS_Linux.tar

https://vts.inxpo.com/cfr/XCSS_Mac.pkg

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