This version sees a host of new features and improvements as well as some ground breaking new features in software of this catagory. With the new Picture in Picture features and text overlay it now makes Screen Monkey a hugely powerful program that can deliver professional looking presentations.

• Fully Vista compatible!
  
• Export DVD clip cue points.
• Live monitor for DVD, Image and Freeze clips.
• Link clips together to automatically play them in the linked order.
• Repair clip allows you to search for a missing media file if it gets moved or deleted.
• Advanced mouse and keyboard control. Plug in multiple keyboard and assign different actions to different keyboards. Set whether a key is globally controlling Screen Monkey.
  
• MIDI control.
• Run multiple instances of Screen Monkey at one time.
• New, Save and Open Show
• Resizable dashboard area to increase the number of clips visible on the screen.
• Unlimited pages.
• Choose from three sizes of clip panels.
• Goto Page
• Shortcut to cue clip.
• Ticker Tape clip
• Three display layers, allowing you to run multiple clips at once. Change where and what size the layer is on the screen. Gives the capability to perform Picture in Picture or overlay text with transparent clip backgrounds.
• Loop video and DVD clips.
• Adjust the volume of Video and DVD clips.
• Display profiles.
• Multiple file drop, quickly add many files as clips.
• Play, Pause and Stop play state indicator.
• Edit multiple clips at once. Set the link, layer and remove.
  
• Use the {Ctrl} key to rewind a clip while it is playing.
• and more ...
  

With version 2 came the ability to have better control over your show by being able to see what was happening live on stage. With this and improvements made to all the clip types it made a great advance over version 1.

• Support for Flash presenations.
• Video cueing, providing you with the ability to set a start and stop time for video.
• Live monitor providing information about what is taking place on the main screen. Also provides controls for video such as pause and seek.
  
• Assignable keyboard hotkeys to play clips at the press of a key.
• Improved Live Video features.
• New fade wipe effect.
• Export Power Point presenation to flash including recorded transition times.
• Export Power Point presentation to podcast format. Still requires Chapter Tools to generate the podcast.
• Better control over Power Point presenations such as loop and continue.
• and more....
  

I would like to take you through some of the main things that Screen Monkey can do.

Screen Monkey is a Second Monitor control center:

• Full screen display.
• Specify which monitor to output your media to.
• Simple and easy to use control panel.
• Load up your media and then just click to display that media.
• Drag your media straight onto the control panel.
• Displays a preview image and legend for each media item.

Screen Monkey supports many different media types:

• Define a colour to set the monitor output to.
• Use images to display place holders on the monitor.
• Supports the main types of video media including mpeg, avi, wmv.
• Play DVDs from the required chapter.
• Run your PowerPoint presentations directly from the software.
• Plug in a live Video Camera and display that on the second monitor.
• Freeze the current output of the monitor.

Screen Monkey provides effects to fade between different types of media:

• Contains many effects that can be applied when media is displayed, including fade.
• Set the stop and start points of the effect to show two media clips at the same time

Screen Monkey is easily accessible:

• Show as a toolbar so that it is always accessible whatever program you are using.
• Global hotkeys to display clips from any program using keyboard shortcuts.