Adobe Captivate

JUNE 30, 2017

The community portal has tons of blogs and videos for a newbie to get started on Adobe Captivate. We have curated some posts and videos and arranged them progressively for you to learn Captivate. We have listed down few high-level topics that span across most of Captivate’s features. Objects in Adobe Captivate.

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Adobe Captivate

JULY 27, 2010

In this two part blog series we look at information that you can use in Adobe Captivate 5 to parallel decide the quality of an image and the SWF file size and bring forth the differences between the publishing of images in CP 4 and CP 5. Selecting ‘high’ for all slides results in a large SWF output file.

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SWF Images Quality File Size 76

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. Publish them in HTML5 rather than swf output. Create them so that they can be delivered via mobile devices.

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Captivate Authoring Tools Flash to HTML5 Conversion Library 81

Adobe Captivate

APRIL 26, 2017

About two weeks ago Captivate 10, now labeled Captivate 2017 was released. If you did visit my blog in the past, you know that I prefer to wait a while before posting my first impressions. Captivate 9 was the first release which could be used on retina screens. Some are mentioned in the documentation, some not.

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Captivate Movie Flash to HTML5 Conversion Flash Player 51

Adobe Captivate

AUGUST 29, 2017

Products used in this example: Adobe Captivate (2017 release). In this blog post, you will learn how to easily convert your PowerPoint slides into interactive and engaging web-enabled presentations using HTML5. If you do not have the 2017 release of Adobe Captivate, download a trial version of Captivate.

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Microsoft PowerPoint Convert Web 51

Adobe Captivate

AUGUST 23, 2017

About two weeks ago Captivate 10, now labeled Captivate 2017 was released. If you did visit my blog in the past, you know that I prefer to wait a while before posting my first impressions. Captivate 9 was the first release which could be used on retina screens. Some are mentioned in the documentation, some not.

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Captivate Movie Simulations Flash to HTML5 Conversion 40

Adobe Captivate

MAY 17, 2017

About two weeks ago Captivate 10, now labeled Captivate 2017 was released. If you did visit my blog in the past, you know that I prefer to wait a while before posting my first impressions. Captivate 9 was the first release which could be used on retina screens. Some are mentioned in the documentation, some not.

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Captivate Movie Simulations Flash to HTML5 Conversion 40

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.” ” Silent Install for Captivate 4.

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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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iPad Flash to HTML5 Conversion eLearning Tools Authoring 279

Adobe Captivate

MAY 17, 2018

I am at the end stage of a 3 module Captivate project. I am using Captivate 9. I then opened the project in Captivate 2017 and republished. The post published Captivate file will not play appeared first on eLearning. I successfully published and sent to my university intranet. The same effect is there.

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Captivate Module Project Open 45

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. Note : Few of the variables in Captivate AS2 movie are defined inside movie class. Action Script 2: _root.

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Movie Captivate Adobe Captivate SWF 68

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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HTML SWF PNG Movie 53

Adobe Captivate

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

First, create the eLearning content in Adobe Captivate, and then publish as an SWF. Click the Browse My Computer button and upload the SWF you published with Captivate. In the image below, I’ve already uploaded a SWF I created with Captivate called UsingNotepad.

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Adobe Connect Adobe Blended Learning Integrate 40

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. Current Solutions: The title of any Captivate slide will be read as the slide title on entry if it is inserted in the slide title box in the properties tag for the slide . .

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Issue SWF Slides Captivate 40

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. So far the only option I found to use captivate on moodle together with LMS is ths learning package. Here I want to publish it in html. inherit the code to use flash as well.

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HTML Moodle Project IM 40

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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Text-to-Speech Voice Captivate Twiki 89

Adobe Captivate

MAY 11, 2018

Maybe you did read a previous post, where I offered some easy Timeline Tweaks , taken from the first presentation ‘Demystifying Captivate’s Timeline’ which was aimed at clarifying basic features of the timeline, including the different ways of pausing the timeline. The word has been adopted by many Captivate users.

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Slides SWF Movie Micro-Learning 58

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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Movie SWF Slides HTML 53

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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Tagging Captivate Performance Support Project 40

Adobe Captivate

MAY 9, 2018

Since I follow the forums daily (and moderate the Jive forum for Captivate) I have seen a lot of threads appearing about version 10.0.1.285 where AutoPlay is automatically disabled for all HTML output, not only for responsive projects like in previous versions.

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Jive SWF HTML Forum 49

Adobe Captivate

OCTOBER 10, 2017

If it was Adobe Captivate or one of the other big-name authoring tools, you may be in luck. Tool used to create the course (Captivate, Storyline, Lectora, Flash, or other). Now is the time to begin planning your transition from Flash-based courses to alternate delivery platforms such as HTML5. What tool was used to build the course?

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Flash Player Player Flash to HTML5 Conversion Flash 91

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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Audio Interactive Slides SWF 40

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. old habits are hard to break.

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DHTML Authoring Tools Outstart Tools 100

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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SWF Flash Player HTML Slides 40

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. The post Importance of Captivate’s Events? I also offered for free a table describing all the possible events.

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Flash to HTML5 Conversion Flash Player Slides SWF 40

CommLab India

MAY 2, 2017

In the first four blogs, we saw the features of Storyline 360 that facilitate the easy authoring of web-based courses. In the fifth and sixth blogs, we looked at the features of Presenter 360 and Quizmaker 360 , components of Studio 360. Flash objects and interactivities in the SWF format can be inserted. What is Engage 360?

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Articulate Authoring Tools Quizmaker Flash to HTML5 Conversion 76

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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Tutorial Software Interactive Authoring Tools 40

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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Flash Authoring Tools Interactive Atlantic Link 55

eLearning Weekly

APRIL 14, 2008

I ran across some great Captivate tips over the past few days. Here’s a neat trick for drawing attention to an object on the screen in a Captivate simulation. Ever want to give a learner several levels of feedback when they’re attempting to complete a task in a Captivate simulation? Highlight Boxes in Reverse.

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Captivate Adobe Captivate Simulations Tips 32

Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 16, 2009

Save to CD, swf, avi, mp3, Quicktime. I’ve done this for SME interviews for our team blog–worked pretty well. Captivate has CC. PC/Mac/Linux. Audacity has its own tutorials, including video. Office 2008. From PowerPoint: Save as Pictures. Save as Movie. Save in different formats. 30 day free trial. Garageband.

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Podcasts Podcaster Podcasting Audacity 170

Adobe Captivate

JANUARY 2, 2019

All the best for 2019 to all Captivate users! 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. I use the term to indicate a shape button where the label has at least one user variable inserted.

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Slides Forum SWF Version 40

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

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. 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).

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Authoring Tools Media Authoring CD-ROM 61

Adobe Captivate

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

Your setup may be such that your mobile can no-way connect to your local PC even thought both (your mobile device as well as PC with captivate) are having internet connection working. When you create “Live preview on devices”, the output is created(generated) in your local PC only. XYZ” or “192.168.0.xyz” xyz” or similar.

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Scanning Internationalization Captivate Internet 45

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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Standards Version Library Templates 45

CommLab India

APRIL 20, 2017

In my earlier blogs, we looked at the easy authoring features of Storyline 360 and its ability to create good animations and facilitate effective learning interactions. Add SWF files, Captivate movies, and Camtasia screencasts to your course. Welcome to the fifth post in a series of fourteen.

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Articulate Flash to HTML5 Conversion Authoring Tools Quizmaker 44

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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