Nefsis Pro Features
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As mentioned above, registering for Nefsis Basic also includes a 14-day trial
of Nefsis Pro's functionality. After the trial period, subscriptions for Nefsis
Pro start at $350 per month for five concurrent users. Volume discounts are
also available.
Nefsis Pro provides a lot more oomph in terms of both meeting scheduling and
in-meeting services.
With Pro, I was able to set up multiple meetings. The host's personal meeting
room is still there, but I could also add additional meetings with a different
ID and passwords. I could either fire up a new quick meeting or schedule a
meeting for a specific time with a list of attendees who would be automatically
e-mailed the meeting information with log-in credentials. It does not appear
that Nefsis supports unique per-user credentials for the same meeting, however.
Pro provides additional ways to invite participants once the host is already
within a meeting, offering buttons to send invitations via e-mail through a
connector to Outlook on the host's PC, or links to tell people out of band.
Within a Pro conference, I found I could also share individual applications
open on the host's desktop, or share just a region of my screen. Application
and screen shares also come with a whiteboarding capability, allowing the host
and permitted participants to highlight on-screen material or mark up a session
with notes, corrections and the like. Presenters can also share handouts and
other materials with participants via the Files & Handouts button.
The video resolution possible during for video calls is much higher with the
Pro version. From the video button at the top of the screen, I could set the
conferencewide resolution as high as 640 by 480, but I could also set resolutions
and frame rates for individual users-such as those with 720p Webcams.
Pro also offers a handy media-share capability that allows the presenter to
share audio or video clips with the meeting participants. I was able to share
MP3 and WMV audio, along with AVIs and some-but not all-H.264-encoded files, as
I found the video element of some HandBrake-encoded video files would not play
correctly. I also found that while Nefsis did a remarkably good job of keeping
the media playback synchronized across all the meeting attendees, allowing a
presenter to be able to comment accurately on what everyone was experiencing at
the time, the audio and video within shared files often get out of sync when
using Nefsis.
I found Pro had remote troubleshooting built in, allowing a host to take over a
participant's desktop, although the host would have no access to protected
parts of the operating system such as User Account Control prompts.
Hosts can record Pro meetings for later playback, although this feature
requires the installation of a special AVI codec.
