Enhanced capture, management and distribution of live presentations

A method for capturing and distributing presentations, comprising:

• capturing media assets of live presentations comprising a session, the media assets including 1) image data of a plurality of sequentially presented visual aids accompanying the live presentations and 2) audio data, wherein at least two of the visual aids are selected from the group of images consisting of slides, photographs, graphs, discrete motion picture clips, and text, and wherein the capturing includes real-time 1) image data marking of the image data for identification of individual images and 2) session marking of the image data for demarcation of individual presentations of the session;
• processing the captured media assets for the session, wherein the processing includes automatically dividing the captured media assets for the session into discrete files associated with the individual presentations based on the session markings;
• managing the processed captured media assets to produce modified presentations, wherein the managing includes modifying the visual aid images identified by the image data markings;
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• formatting the modified presentations of at least one session for distribution on distribution media.

A system for capturing and distributing presentations, comprising:

• means for capturing media assets of live presentations comprising a session, the media assets including 1) image data of a plurality of sequentially presented visual aids accompanying the live presentations and 2) audio data, wherein at least two of the visual aids are selected from the group of images consisting of slides, photographs, graphs, discrete motion picture clips, and text;
• means for real-time image data marking of the image data for identification of individual images;
• means for real-time session marking of the image data for demarcation of individual presentations of the session;
• means for processing the captured media assets, the processing means configured to automatically divide the captured media assets for the session into discrete files associated with the individual presentations based on the session markings;
• means for managing the processed captured media assets to produce modified presentations, the managing means configured to modify the visual aid images identified by the image data markings;
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• means for formatting the modified presentations of at least one session for distribution on distribution media.