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Acquistions – Someone had an idea

eLearning 24-7

Someone came up with the idea to create templates for developing courses quickly – and no, it wasn’t someone from Adobe or Articulate. Instead, it was someone from Macromedia Dreamweaver, which is software for building websites. Not Articulate. At the time, I hated it.

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The Content Conversion Cause - Abhijit Kadle

Aptara

Since the advent of e-learning, Macromedia products were popular, and enormous quantities of content were generated using platforms like Director and Flash. Companies cannot afford to do away with that content and must consider whether to recreate from scratch or convert (migrate) to a newer platform.

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Learn How to Build Effective E-Learning with this Free E-Book

Rapid eLearning

They enabled people to create their content in PowerPoint and convert it to the Flash. Essentially, each slide was converted to a Flash movie. Articulate Presenter was around well before eHelp (one of the leading companies) was purchased by Macromedia that was purchased by Adobe. May 17-20 (Orlando, FL).

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How to Speak Like an eLearning Pro

OpenSesame

All we have to do is to convert all the media to.flv so it can be embedded in the SWF, then publish the SCORM package to the LMS.”. Flash : Flash is a technology platform originally developed by Macromedia and later acquired and developed by Adobe systems. The company was later acquired by Macromedia. Here are the essentials.

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Summer Course Authoring Tool Rankings – Top Ten

eLearning 24-7

Because it is Adobe – the same folks who came up with Photoshop a long time ago, who brought us Premiere – a long time ago and who bought Macromedia – again, a long time ago. HTML5 output including a PPT converter to HTML5. 2 Articulate Storyline. Why say that? Themes, interactions. Collaboration.

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It’s time for upgrades, and a Poll

eLearning Development

Articulate released the Studio 09 update to all their tools a couple of weeks ago. This is a huge upgrade, and the first time Adobe has released a unified upgrade for all the Adobe and former Macromedia products. Articulate Studio 09. For Studio 09, Articualte added Articulate Video Encoder ‘09.

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Flash: an End of an Era – What You Need To Know

Aptara

In 1996 Macromedia first introduced the Flash Player, developed to play videos, animations, and audio and to support enhanced interactivity in web browsers. HTML5 is the most suitable option to convert Flash-based content and display content that is browser and device agnostic and media rich (similar to Flash). abpkassiercqnivqjwtj.