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Adobe Captivate & eLearning: How Long is Too Long?

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However, in my experience developing eLearning using Adobe Captivate, I put the attention span of an adult learner at 15-20 seconds per slide. If your slide contains some voiceover audio, a text caption or two and an interactive object controlling navigation (such as a button or click box), 15-20 seconds is perfect.

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Adobe Captivate 5: Keep Audio From Getting Cut Off

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When importing voiceover audio into Adobe Captivate, I always suggest that audio be added directly to the slide instead of objects on the slide ( Audio > Import to > Slide ). In the image below, a voiceover clip has been added to a slide, and the audio has been set to play just when the slide appears.

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Adobe Captivate: Live, Online Training Now Available in Central European Time Zone Hours

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  This beginner Adobe Captivate training class will quickly have you creating eLearning and mLearning lessons that include software simulations, demonstrations and soft-skills (compliance training).   Class Schedule.

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Adobe Captivate 5: Control the Volume of Background Audio

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In Adobe Captivate 5, you simply choose Audio > Import to > Background and open the audio file (wav or mp3). One of the options missing from RoboDemo and older versions of Captivate was the ability to control the volume of the background audio on slides that already had audio (voiceover audio for instance).

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The Beginner Adobe Captivate training course will quickly have you creating eLearning and mLearning lessons that include software simulations, demonstrations and soft-skills (compliance training). Whats new'

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ARTICULATE STORYLINE 360: Three Cheers for Text-to-Speech

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During our live, online Articulate Storyline Beginner classes , we teach students how to import and record voiceover audio. The most common question we get about voiceover audio is “Can Storyline convert text to audio files?” He has been recognized by Adobe as one of the top trainers world-wide.

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Adobe Captivate 5.5: Lowering the Size of Published SWFs

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Use Less Audio I'm a huge fan of adding audio effects and voiceover audio to a lesson. Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5 or 5.5? We offer Beginner and Advanced classes. However, nothing will bloat a published SWF quite like audio. If you need to use audio, check out the next section.