Adobe Captivate

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Apple’s recent announcement that it has lifted restrictions on its third-party developer guidelines has direct implications for the publishing options available from Captivate 5 and Adobe eLearning Suite 2. To deploy a Captivate course on an iPhone you need Adobe eLearning Suite 2, or both Adobe Captivate 5 and Adobe Flash Professional.

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Steve Howard

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

The Adobe Captivate team has been busy blogging about the new features in Captivate 4. “One of the new features added in Adobe Captivate 4 was Variables and Scripting. In this blog post we will try to understand some simple usages of Variables.” ” _root issue in Adobe Captivate. Thanks guys!

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Upside Learning

JANUARY 30, 2013

Adobe Edge Animate. Swiffy converts SWF files to HTML5. Apart from supporting many common SWF features such as vector graphics, embedded fonts, images and timeline animation, it also converts basic ActionScript 2.0 So let’s start with…. Google Swiffy. and ActionScript 3.0 code into HTML (though no Flash games yet).

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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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Integrated Learnings

JUNE 22, 2010

Frequently, we embed Adobe Captivate simulations within a Lectora eLearning course. But note that if you simply insert the Captivate simulation as a Flash swf file into Lectora without doing anything to limit the course navigation, then the learner can easily click right on through to the next page in the title. By Jay Lambert.

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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

MAY 9, 2018

I live in Belgium with the official motto ‘ Unity is Strength ‘ That is also valid for requests to the Adobe Team. The workflow described in that blog post would takes less time if these feature requests were fulfilled: Being able to use one of the slides as Poster image.

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Adobe Captivate

MARCH 28, 2018

This short blog post is meant to help solving an issue that pops up in the forums once in a while: “How to get rid of the white screen and Play button on mobile devices?” 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.

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eLearning Brothers

JULY 13, 2017

In this blog, we’re going to address how to take the small modules of microlearning you’ve created and combine them into one amazing over-arching course using the tools provided in Captivate. I’ll list them here, but I’m primarily going to focus on the last one for the purpose of this blog. Each of them has it’s pros and cons.

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Adobe Captivate

MARCH 29, 2019

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. Recently I answered several questions about Audio in Captivate.

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Adobe Captivate

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

Adobe Captivate 4 has a feature using which you can access and control captivate movies from external movies. Here is how you access Adobe Captivate movie variables from external swf: Action Script 3: root. Blog post by - Deepak R, Adobe Captivate. You can find more details here. Action Script 2: _root.

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Adobe Captivate

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

I suppose all developers are aware that the final death of Flash Player, SWF output will be there sooner than expected. For the ‘blank’ projectstThe big button Preview has changed the sequence of the methods and clarified that the former ‘Preview in Browser (F12)’ is creating a temporary SWF. Preview Methods.

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Adobe Captivate

MAY 11, 2018

Recently I presented two sessions about the Timeline at the Adobe eLearning Conference in DC (25th of April 2018). Time to upgrade this article to integrate the changes within newer versions (system variable names) and the switch from SWF to HTML output. A published cptx-file (to HTML or SWF) is an interactive movie.

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Slides SWF Movie Micro-Learning 58

Adobe Captivate

MARCH 31, 2017

Current solution: This seems to be associated with publishing as a swf – either in combination (swf/html5) or swf only. We’re now only publishing as html5. Problem: No Project Title – when a project is being published, the title is missing. .

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 8, 2008

On the left side you will see the keywords sorted in order based on how often they blog about these terms as compared to the terms used by everyone (with a couple of other factors thrown in that give a better result). Learning Next Learning Visions Learnlets Mobile Learning The Learning Circuits Blog Will at Work Learning Work 2.0

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Social Networks Apache Roller Bea Pages Informal 100

Adobe Captivate

JANUARY 16, 2019

The blog [link] concludes that somehow the other index files (multiscreen.html etc.) When i delete the.pdf,swf data from the zip, nothing will start. Here I want to publish it in html. From all the publishing advice I’ve read I can anyhow only pusblish it as html. Somehow the ZIP created still puts.pdf and.swf files in.

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Adobe Captivate

MAY 7, 2018

One of my most visited blog posts published 7 years ago (Captivate 5, 5.5) is Where is Null? Beware: the embedded movie is a SWF, you need a browser with enabled Flash Player to watch that movie. Everything worked fine for SWF output also in later versions. That part described in the old blog post is still valid !

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Adobe Captivate

APRIL 26, 2017

If you did visit my blog in the past, you know that I prefer to wait a while before posting my first impressions. In Captivate 2017 this is no longer necessary, thanks to the Adobe team! If Flash player is enabled in your browser, you can test this movie (SWF) online in my personal blog. Advanced Actions enhancements.

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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). In this blog post, let us learn how to tweak the speech generated using Loquendo voices. I have used these controls in an Adobe Captivate project (.cptx

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Adobe Captivate

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Over 6 years ago I published a blog post explaining the importance of Events in the application. In that older blog post I mentioned the Rollover slidelet which had two events: on Rollover, and on Click. I also offered for free a table describing all the possible events. It is time to update that old post and table.

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E-learning Uncovered

AUGUST 15, 2013

In my last blog post , I shared the basic reasoning behind optimizing your e-learning media files and how to reduce file size using external tools. Adobe Captivate. You have the option to compress full motion recording SWF files and to set the compression level. Note that enabling these options also affects the file format used.

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Adobe Captivate

MAY 17, 2017

If you did visit my blog in the past, you know that I prefer to wait a while before posting my first impressions. In Captivate 2017 this is no longer necessary, thanks to the Adobe team! If Flash player is enabled in your browser, you can test this movie (SWF) online in my personal blog. Typekit integration.

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eFront

JANUARY 5, 2011

CamStudio - (Authoring Tool) CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs). Host them on your own blog, website or intranet!

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Adobe Captivate

AUGUST 23, 2017

If you did visit my blog in the past, you know that I prefer to wait a while before posting my first impressions. In Captivate 2017 this is no longer necessary, thanks to the Adobe team! If Flash player is enabled in your browser, you can test this movie (SWF) online in my personal blog. Typekit integration.

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Captivate Movie Simulations Flash to HTML5 Conversion 40

Adobe Captivate

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Publish them in HTML5 rather than swf output. Improve the capacity of these courses to work well with within our learning management system. Review the content to ensure it is fresh, and provide updates where needed. Create them so that they can be delivered via mobile devices. That is the task.

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Adobe Captivate

JANUARY 2, 2019

A couple of years ago i wrote a short blog about dynamic buttons. I first thought this to be a limitation of HTML5 (first article was for SWF output) and tested it out. All the best for 2019 to all Captivate users! I use the term to indicate a shape button where the label has at least one user variable inserted.

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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. What I explain is also valid for Accordion and Timeline.

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eLearning Weekly

APRIL 14, 2008

A post on eLearningLive.com and on Silke’s blog. Publishing Adobe Captivate files on YouTube. Below is a snippet of an article taken from Adobe’s site… Check it out here. The only problem is that YouTube doesn’t support the SWF file format, which is currently the only format Adobe Captivate generates.

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eLearning Weekly

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

SWF) to insert into your elearning. They also offer elearning templates and custom Articulate skins as well as blog posts and good-natured ninja-tastic attitudes. You don’t need to know how to program in Flash, and you don’t even need to own Flash software. 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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Adobe Captivate

MAY 6, 2019

Maybe a blog, explaining why I am wondering about the use of Captivate for the creation of software tutorials, explaining the three possible workflows with growing level of interactivity can lead to some feedback anyway. Those are SWF-based but will be converted to MP4 when publishing to HTML5.

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Adobe Captivate

MAY 1, 2017

In my previous blog post about my preferred new features in Captivate 2017 I mentioned that the dialog box for Advanced Actions got a nice new Outfit. I recommend to download the example published file , from that article, or watch it (as SWF output) if you are using a Flash enabled browser on a desktop or laptop. Conclusion.

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Adobe Captivate

NOVEMBER 12, 2017

If you want to publish a project to be accessible from any device, you have to ignore the still available Captivate SWF output! It will be a huge help to the Adobe Captivate team. More than ever, this post is valid today, November 2017 and will certainly change in the future. Overview Workflows. Only HTML5 output can be used.

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Adobe Captivate

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

What is the 2017 release of Adobe Captivate? The 2017 release of Adobe Captivate empowers you to leap ahead with a smart eLearning design platform that does the heavy lifting of creating responsive eLearning content. Transform* legacy Adobe Captivate non-mobile courses into fully responsive mLearning content.

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CommLab India

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Then, you can develop software simulations that engage your learners with Adobe Captivate easily. This blog is a step-by-step guide for developing software simulations using Adobe Captivate. Source: Adobe help manual). Once you are done with all your changes, you can click the ‘Publish’ button in Adobe Captivate.

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gomo learning

JANUARY 28, 2020

The Adobe Flash format, once the primary standard for learning content, will no longer be supported after December 31st 2020. For readers of a certain age, Adobe Flash was the exciting new face of a media-filled internet. It’s now less than a year before Adobe, Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla pull the plug on Flash entirely.

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Flash to HTML5 Conversion Flash Flash Player Content 95

CommLab India

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Adobe Captivate has been a top choice for creating dynamic and engaging e-learning for quite some time now. With every version, Adobe makes improvements and also has some neat additions to the tool which make it easier to develop e-learning courseware. And its latest version, Adobe Captivate 9, is no different.

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