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The Open Screen Project – Will It Succeed?

Upside Learning

This is an outcome of the Adobe initiated Open Screen Project , which was started a couple of years back. The Open Screen Project was started to help create a singular experience on multiple devices (using Flash) be it Computers, Mobiles, TV or Game consoles. So one can now develop software that can actually “play” SWF content.

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Adobe Captivate: When It Comes to Images, Choose Your Quality

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

One thing you can do to lower the size of your published video is control the quality of your slides. Captivate offers four image quality levels you can specify. You can apply the settings to individual slides, or for all of the project slides. High (24-bit): Publishes images as 24-bit bitmap images (except JPEGs).

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eLearning Development: 4 Tech Considerations When Using Videos

Upside Learning

Before using videos in your Flash project, you would need to encode them in a format compatible with Adobe Flash (FLV or MPEG-4). You can use this bitrate calculator to gauge what quality of target video you would need based on your requirement. Encoding videos to FLV. 264, On2 VP6 , and Sorenson Spark. Playing back videos.

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Balancing image quality and SWF output size in CP 5 – 1

Adobe Captivate

Some captions and parts of images might have a dark background when published in CP5 with slide quality set as JPEG. The same project seems to work fine when published with CP4 with the same setting. Most images appear clearly in the output with low resolution; however, in some cases, your projects may warrant high resolution images.

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Why is HTML5 migration considered to be a wiser perspective?

Dynamic Pixel

Hence, the scenario has made the switching over from flash plug-ins and SWF to html5 has been indispensable. SWF refers to a small web format that is generally not compatible with the rarely-used browsers. HTML5 is considered to be the latest technology available in the visual world over Flash SWF files. What is HTML5?

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Balancing image quality and SWF output size in CP 5 – 2

Adobe Captivate

In the previous post we looked at the different options that CP5 provides at the slide level to control the image quality and size. Captivate 4 publishes images that contain alpha as high quality images even if the slide quality setting was JPEG or low. Therefore, your preferences for image quality are honored better in CP 5.

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Adobe Captivate 5.5: Lowering the Size of Published SWFs

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

Fortunately, adding interactivity to a lesson does not negatively impact the size of the published SWF. Rather, imported assets such as audio, video and images are the main culprits behind SWF bloat. There are some things that you can do while working in Captivate that may lower the size of the published SWF.