The Logical Blog by IconLogic

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

by Kevin Siegel    Several years ago I was in Canada teaching Captivate for a large Toronto-based company. We were just getting ready to cover the accessible features found in Captivate when I was informed that I could skip the section because Canadians were not required to create accessible content.

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Upside Learning

JUNE 3, 2010

It captures the mouse movements, clicks and on screen changes along with any narration audio which can be recorded through attached microphone lively and in sync with the capturing screen. Unlike screen capturing tools, the published output is not just a passive video, but is in a fully interactive format such as Flash SWF.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

OCTOBER 16, 2015

We are proud to announce that our newest book, "Adobe Captivate 9: The Essentials Workbook" has begun shipping.      This book is a self-paced training manual that teaches the core Adobe Captivate skills needed to create interactive eLearning and mLearning content.    Order here.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Due to popular demand from our friends in Europe, we're now offering our top rated Captivate training during Central European Time Zone hours!    Class Schedule.

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Adobe Captivate

MARCH 29, 2019

Recently I answered several questions about Audio in Captivate. Maybe they can be useful for other Captivate users, decided to write this short blog. Although personally I mostly use Adobe Audition to record and edit audio clips for Captivate, this blog will focus only on the Audio features within Captivate.

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Adobe Captivate

APRIL 12, 2019

I created a set of SCORM packages for online training purposes, using Captivate 2017. Last year, using the same programs (slightly older versions), and processes, I published these packages as swf files, and the audio played without any issues. When I publish the same file as SWF/HTML5, the audio plays perfectly.

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LearnUpon

MARCH 27, 2018

Adobe Captivate is one of the best authoring tools available to eLearning professionals. In this tutorial, we show you how to publish SCORM content in Adobe Captivate so you can import it to your LMS. Adobe Captivate makes publishing eLearning content as a SCORM file simple. SCORM Preferences.

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mLearning Revolution

AUGUST 12, 2011

Today I’m happy to report that our much anticipated update of Adobe Presenter with full support for ActionScript 3.0 (AS3) AS3) is here, and this is a free update to anyone who owns Adobe Presenter 7, or any version of our Adobe eLearning Suite. As I wrote above, Adobe Presenter 7.0.7 Send to Kindle. eLearning'

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

JANUARY 29, 2014

by Kevin Siegel       If you have already created a presentation in Microsoft PowerPoint, it's very easy to re-purpose the presentation as eLearning content using either TechSmith Camtasia Studio or Adobe Presenter. Using Camtasia, you can add callouts, images, audio, Flash hotspots, animations, and even a quiz.).

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

JUNE 1, 2021

Adobe threatened to sunset Flash for years but each year, the death sentence was commuted.  Adobe followed through and ended support for Flash on December 31, 2020. In early 2021, Adobe started blocking Flash content from playing through most browsers, computers, and devices. time is on my side, yes it is."

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Adobe Captivate

JUNE 25, 2018

I recently built a new project in Captivate 2017 and was having issues optimizing the size to play well in our LMS. I rebuilt the same project(same images and audio) in Captivate 9 and it saved as a third of the size that it was in Captivate 2017. example Cap.9 9 was 112 MB and Cap. example Cap.9 9 was 112 MB and Cap.

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CommLab India

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Various other authoring tools provide this facility to record simulations, but Adobe Captivate 9 is the most easy-to-use tool to create software simulations. It’s a fairly simple process to record a software simulation in Adobe Captivate. How to record a software simulation in Adobe Captivate.

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LearnUpon

MARCH 27, 2018

Adobe Captivate is one of the best authoring tools available to eLearning professionals. In this tutorial, we show you how to publish SCORM content in Adobe Captivate so you can import it to your LMS. Adobe Captivate makes publishing eLearning content as a SCORM file simple. SCORM Preferences.

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Adobe Captivate

MAY 16, 2019

A question posted recently is at the base of this short post: “a way to stop the main slide audio when a tab on the interaction is clicked” I pointed to an older blog where you can find some tips for using learning interactions, about their limitations etc. A Captivate interactive object means: It has an Actions tab.

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42 Design Square

MAY 30, 2019

Flash SWF Course files created Using Bespoke Adobe Flash FLA: Mostly, these cannot be quickly converted to HTML5 elearning. Some assets can be extracted from published SWF output, more assets can be extracted if you have the FLA files. Scenario A: You have only the published SWF output.

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Kitaboo

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Besides, it also offers a choice of drag-and-drop widgets to add interactivity, through videos, audio, or quizzes. Adobe Captivate. This is a good content creation tool to consider, especially if you want to interoperate it with the other tools from the Adobe stable.

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Adobe Captivate

JUNE 10, 2011

Adobe Presenter is a great tool for creating Flash-based eLearning courses from within Microsoft PowerPoint. You can add animation effects and SWF files along with narration, quizzes, and simulations to transform the drab presentations into interactive multimedia experiences.

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Adobe Captivate

AUGUST 23, 2018

When I preview the project in HTML5 in Browser Captivate 2017, the audio plays (audio file and text-to-speech). The post When publishing a Captivate 2017 project to HTML5 the audio doesn’t play appeared first on eLearning. When I publish to HTML and play there is no sounds.

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Adobe Captivate

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

In this article, I will share with you how I determined how many hours it would take me to re-build an existing catalog of courses in Captivate and show you examples of documents I created to assist me in the process. Tap into the audio path into the brain by replacing large blocks of onscreen text with voiceover narration.

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Upside Learning

JANUARY 30, 2013

Adobe Edge Animate. Captivate Version 6. Here’s a good, low-cost option for quick conversion of your existing Captivate-based projects for tablets. Swiffy converts SWF files to HTML5. You can upload converted images, audio, and video as well as interactive quizzes and other activities through easy form-based templates.

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Adobe Captivate

JULY 3, 2018

Has anyone had an issue with their audio not playing in HTML5 in preview and when published? But when you click the Rewind button, the audio will play? I published a project in Captivate 8 last week and had this issue and am having the same problem with Captivate 2017 today.

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Adobe Captivate

MAY 25, 2018

Using Captivate 2017 – I imported a PowerPoint with Animations, and now have added audio voice-over, but when I publish the project as HTML5 – for some reason I’m losing the PowerPoint animations. Why would audio have effected this? How can I fix this?

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Adobe Captivate

OCTOBER 10, 2017

On July 25, 2017, Adobe made the following announcement : Adobe is planning to end-of-life Flash. This announcement has a major impact on any organization which has e-learning courses published to run in Adobe Flash player. If it was Adobe Captivate or one of the other big-name authoring tools, you may be in luck.

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Adobe Captivate

AUGUST 26, 2010

In previous versions of Captivate, for this feature to work, Flash needs to be installed on the same machine from where you want to export. This will show a Export dialog in Captivate unlike the earlier versions which show an Import dialog inside Flash. Clicking on export will export the Captivate project to a FLA file.

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Adobe Captivate

AUGUST 6, 2010

Through my previous blog series on text-to-speech, you have learnt about: The different text-to-speech voices in Adobe Captivate 5 (NeoSpeech and Loquendo). Audio mixer features. I have used these controls in an Adobe Captivate project (.cptx cptx and SWF file) and attached it here for your reference.

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Adobe Captivate

MARCH 11, 2019

You are probably aware of the fact that Text animations are SWF-based and cannot be used for HTML5 output. I found it a fun challenge to see if it is possible to mimick the behavior using uniquely Captivate’s features. Did I use audio? Here is a screenshot of the timeline panel: Audio. You could use JS as well.

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Adobe Captivate

MARCH 25, 2019

As Captivate is mainly for creating eLearning type of things, the majority of the Captivate project contains heavy assets like Video, Audio, animation and what not. And the SAD part is that, developer rarely notice that till he finishes the project ( as he is Testing on the same machine where Captivate output is.)

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Adobe Captivate

JUNE 21, 2018

To start this off; Animations in my non-responsive captivate project do not seem to play correctly when publishing my project with only the HTML5 format. What I see when I create the animation and preview it inside captivate is completely different from how it appears when viewing the published version. What is up here?

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Adobe Captivate

MARCH 21, 2019

Yet I have some roll over captions I cannot remove and so must publish in SWF. In SWF in browser and in final publishing the JavaScipt won’t work. css(“visibility”,”hidden”); // hide the audio button. The script is below.

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eLearning Cyclops

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Adobe Flash - An essential tool for creating highly interactive elements, including animation, games, immersive learning simulations, and almost anything else you want if you can manage writing or finding the actionscript. Adobe Fireworks - It is my choice for editing graphics because it is user-friendly to non-graphic artists like me.

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Adobe Captivate

MARCH 28, 2018

For SWF output you had the choice: it was possible to change the default setting which was to have a movie playing automatically after loading. ” When publishing to HTML the AutoPlay is automatically disabled, Reason is that some devices and OS (iOS) do not allow Autoplay. Play Arrow.

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Illumen Group

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Last July, Adobe announced that Flash, the ubiquitous, super-powered website and elearning authoring tool will be phased out by the end of 2020. If Storyline or Captivate or similar top tier authoring tools, were used you’re in for some luck. Some older courses were built with text only and no audio. Consider mobile delivery.

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E-learning Uncovered

AUGUST 15, 2013

Now, let’s explore the basic compression settings that come inside each of the four rapid e-learning authoring tools we use at Artisan E-Learning (Studio, Storyline, Captivate, and Lectora). You can use one of the pre-set options or customize the quality settings for both images and audio. Adobe Captivate.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

DECEMBER 18, 2012

by Kevin Siegel    I recently received an email from a new Captivate developer who had delivered an eLearning lesson to a client via email attachment. The client informed the developer that he could not open the email attachment since he didn't own Adobe Captivate.

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Adobe Captivate

MAY 6, 2019

Whenever a comparison of eLearning authoring tools is published, Captivate still is considered to be the best tool for creation of software tutorials. That has been indeed the primary goal when Captivate was released many years ago. There are many alternatives to Captivate’s Video Demo.

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eLearning Weekly

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

SWF) to insert into your elearning. Add text, images and audio. Since Captivate 5 has, questionably, limited support to AS3 only, these ineractions are not for Captivate 5, but they work great with Captivate 4, Articulate , Atlantic Link, and others. Click to launch the eLearning Interaction Builder.

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eFront

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Driven in part by Apple’s decision in 2010 not to allow SWF files to run on the iPad, there has been an accelerating move away from Flash and towards the new emerging HTML 5 standards which allow most (but not all) of the same effects to be delivered without the downsides of dubious security, buggy code and outdated plugins.

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