The Logical Blog by IconLogic

JULY 12, 2013

I'm happy to report that my newest book, "Adobe Captivate 7: The Essentials"  is now available for purchase. "Adobe Captivate 7: The Essentials" is a self-paced training manual that teaches the core Adobe Captivate skills needed to create interactive eLearning and mLearning content.

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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

MAY 21, 2013

Have you ever visited the Preferences dialog box in Adobe Captivate (Windows users, Edit > Preferences ; Mac users,  Adobe Captivate > Preferences ), made several changes and later, maybe months later, needed those settings on another computer running Captivate? Open a Captivate project and set your Preferences.

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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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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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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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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

JUNE 1, 2021

Given that development, Captivate developers began scrambling to ensure their legacy projects continued to work. One way to know if your Captivate project has Flash content is to run the HTML5 Tracker (Project > HTML5 Tracker). Does the content contain a lot of audio, video, animation, or custom complex interactions?

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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. How to publish SCORM content in Adobe Captivate.

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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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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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mLearning Revolution

AUGUST 12, 2011

For example, using the Record button, you can quickly record high-quality audio and then sync the audio to your PowerPoint animations with fine precision. Using the Insert SWF button , you can supplement your Presenter projects with software demonstrations and interactive simulations created with Adobe Captivate 5 and 5.5.

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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. Flash to HTML5 Elearning: Costs vs.

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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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Upside Learning

JANUARY 30, 2013

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. Apart from supporting many common SWF features such as vector graphics, embedded fonts, images and timeline animation, it also converts basic ActionScript 2.0

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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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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. The tool can convert Adobe Captivate generated files formats (.swf) swf) to digital MP4, which you can then upload on websites or play with media players.

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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. How to publish SCORM content in Adobe Captivate.

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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. Let us take a look at its workflow.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

JANUARY 29, 2014

Using Camtasia, you can add callouts, images, audio, Flash hotspots, animations, and even a quiz.).            As with Camtasia, you'll use the Presenter tools to add audio, images, videos, and a quiz. While you can also publish SWFs using Camtasia, you cannot produce a PDF.).

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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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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. Special events.

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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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Adobe Captivate

JUNE 10, 2011

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

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Adobe Captivate

OCTOBER 10, 2017

If it was Adobe Captivate or one of the other big-name authoring tools, you may be in luck. Some older courses were built with text only and no audio. Tool used to create the course (Captivate, Storyline, Lectora, Flash, or other). Here are some questions to consider as you develop your transition plan: 1. Course format (.swf,htm).

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 16, 2009

AAC (m4a)–audio. Pop filters–you can buy it at any audio supply or use an old screen door and bend it around your mic. Save to CD, swf, avi, mp3, Quicktime. multitrack audio for Mac. Transcripts can be used if it’s just audio (mp3 or radio). Captivate has CC. million (2007). million (2008).

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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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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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CommLab India

MAY 2, 2017

Excellent audio capabilities; you can record, import and edit audio clips in a hassle-free manner. Flash objects and interactivities in the SWF format can be inserted. You can also include Captivate movies and Camtasia screencasts. A multilingual interface, available in English, Chinese, French, German, and Spanish.

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Illumen Group

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

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. Tool used to create the course (Captivate, Storyline, Lectora, Flash, or other). Here are some pointers for developing your transition plan: 1. Consider mobile delivery.

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eLearning Cyclops

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Adobe Captivate - Fantastic for creating simulations (software sims and branching sims), plus it does a good job recording audio for your sims. Being able to create SCORM/AICC compliant courses that imports Flash SWF files and plays well with the LMS makes my ability to implement e-learning much easier.

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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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