Adobe Captivate

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

I am attempting to embed short (10 sec) video files to a captivate 2019 project and publish it as an swf file. When viewing the swf file, the videos appear to be attempting to load (i get loader icon indications) but the video never loads. I need this video saved into the swf file, if at all possible.

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Adobe Captivate

JUNE 30, 2017

When you insert YouTube widget in your Adobe Captivate 2017 project using Interactions menu > Learning Interactions and view the SWF output, you may experience the following issues: Video content getting truncated/cut-off in IE 11. Publish the SWF output and YouTube widget will work fine on IE11, Chrome and Firefox.

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Integrated Learnings

AUGUST 30, 2012

Flash Player (SWF). For example, in two recent projects, we created eLearning courses for deployment via the LMS. One problem that I did run into with InDesign was using Flash (SWF) files imbedded into the document. Your design of the document would be much simpler, so the end user could easily print it for future reference.

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Adobe Captivate

JULY 27, 2018

Hello, I’ve created my first captivate project! I published as SWF/HMTL5 and was able to view it on the web using the “multiscreen.html” file in the project’s folder. However, it does not show any of the interactions that I included in the project. Please help. Please help.

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Dynamic Pixel

APRIL 27, 2022

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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Upside Learning

DECEMBER 15, 2009

Before using videos in your Flash project, you would need to encode them in a format compatible with Adobe Flash (FLV or MPEG-4). The embedded videos are played back from within SWF, so you can create your own components to control the video playback. Encoding videos to FLV. 264, On2 VP6 , and Sorenson Spark. Playing back videos.

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eLearning Cyclops

OCTOBER 24, 2010

Project Rome is the latest coming out of Adobe Max. Project Rome is available for download as a free preview. There is also a Project Rome for Education. Project Rome can be used to produce a variety things including publications, presentations, websites and even animation.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

JUNE 20, 2012

Currently the most common way to publish a Captivate project is as a Flash SWF, an excellent solution because SWF files can be used by the vast majority of the world's personal computers, browsers and operating systems. As an alternative to publishing a SWF, you can publish as HTML5.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

During this step-by-step book you will learn how to: Create projects. Share projects to Vimeo, YouTube, Screencast, and locally. Create both videos and SWF/HTML5 output. Camtasia version 9 is an awesome upgrade to Camtasia and I give it two hearty thumbs up! Record screen actions. Add images. Add videos. Add quizzes.

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Adobe Captivate

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

I have a Captivate project loaded from MS Power Point, linked with high fidelity and slide duration, set to advance automatically. When looking at the whole project, it looks fine, all animation works. This occurs in the swf version and in the slide preview on Captivate, strangely not in the HTML5 version. What is going on here?

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

OCTOBER 2, 2012

I was curious what the option would do, so I enabled it and published a SWF. However, with  Scalable HTML content  enabled in my test project, the published SWF always resized to fit my browser window (proportionally), no matter how big or small I made my browser window.   Looking to learn Captivate quickly?

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Adobe Captivate

JULY 27, 2010

The same project seems to work fine when published with CP4 with the same setting. 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.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

by Kevin Siegel    When you are ready to make a Camtasia project available to your learners, you need to Produce it. Arguably, the most common way to publish a Camtasia project is as a Flash SWF.   But SWFs have a problem. When you produce a SWF in Camtasia, the output includes a  Smart Player.

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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). " Steps to Conversion Success. I've got experienced developers who can help!

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Upside Learning

APRIL 7, 2009

Flash CS4 allows us to finally publish SWF files for Flash Player 10 - the latest version of Flash Player. There are many inbuilt presets available and new presets can also be created and shared with project team members. The new Adobe CS4 suite has some new exciting and time-saving features in all its products.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

MARCH 4, 2014

    After clicking where I wanted the simulation to appear, I chose  File > Import > File  and opened a SWF I had published earlier using Adobe Captivate. The source Captivate project opened pretty quickly in Adobe Captivate.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Selecting the Enable Accessibility option ( Edit > Preferences > Publishing ) makes certain elements in Adobe Captivate projects accessible or open to accessibility technology. The following Adobe Captivate elements are accessible when Enable Accessibility is selected: Project name (derived from Project Properties).

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

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.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

MAY 14, 2013

Prior to publishing a lesson, choose Project > HTML5 Tracker to open the HTML5 Tracker (shown below). Choose Project > Skin Editor and edit the lesson's playbar so that it doesn't contain features that might cause problems within a Help Topic. When publishing, take the learner's device into consideration.

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Adobe Captivate

JANUARY 16, 2019

Right now im struggeling to 1) publish my project as a html-only version and get it to work on moodle (optimally with LMS SCORM 1.2). A second Issue im Having ist that suddenly, 2) my preview (full project) and published versions only show slides 1-10 and the rest of the slides (approx. Hi everyone and a good day to you!

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

MARCH 15, 2011

You can apply the settings to individual slides, or for all of the project slides. While your published SWF will be smaller when compared to using the other modes listed here, this setting will lower the quality of the published images so much, you may not like it. Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5?

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

I pointed out that HTML5 is an alternative publishing format to a SWF. Unlike SWFs, projects published as HTML5 will not only play on the Apple  iPad, iPhone and the iPod, but the lessons will retain any interactivity that you added to the slides (such as click boxes and buttons).

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Adobe Captivate

MARCH 27, 2019

I am creating projects for testing users on a main frame product. They work perfectly when I use Captivate 2017 and Preview them with the Project option. I have published them in both swf and html. The post Keyboard keys like Tab, Page Up, Pause/Break, do not function when Posted to a web server,only when in Project test mode.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

APRIL 12, 2011

The common way to publish a completed Captivate eLearning video is as a SWF (small web file). When the publish process is complete, you will end up with three files: an HTML file (which is what your learner will need to open the lesson in a web browser), a JavaScript file (called standard.js) and the SWF containing your lesson. 

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

DECEMBER 1, 2012

Selecting the 508 Compliance option makes certain elements in Adobe Captivate projects accessible or open to accessibility technology. The following Adobe Captivate elements are accessible when the 508 Compliance option is selected:  Project name (derived from Project Properties). Slide accessibility text.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

AUGUST 22, 2012

You can import PowerPoint presentations into an existing Captivate project, or create a new Captivate project that uses the PowerPoint slides. From the  Welcome  screen, select  From Microsoft PowerPoint , open the PowerPoint presentation and a few clicks later, the presentation will be reborn as a Captivate project.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

In an ideal world, your Captivate projects would be kept to a respectable number of slides (fewer than approximately 100). Larger projects will take longer to produce, longer to publish, longer for learners to download and, most importantly, longer to complete. Choose File > New Project > Aggregator Project.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Conditional actions get converted to standard actions in upgraded project. Operands in advanced actions appear blank in upgraded project. Effects are not played fully in SWF, when the effect duration is less than the default effect duration. Autoshape buttons fill and stroke is not retained during upgrade.

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Adobe Captivate

JULY 28, 2010

When the project is published in CP4 with the JPEG option the SWF file size was 2314KB. This how the slide looked in the swf output file. The project is then published as low and the resultant output file size is 2314 KB. The project is then published as low and the resultant output file size is 2314 KB.

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Adobe Captivate

APRIL 12, 2011

Topic: Customizing the Project Interface with Adobe Captivate 5: TOC, skin editor and project resize Date and time: Thursday, April 14, 2011 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM US/Pacific Description: Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish for an introductory session on customizing the table of contents, playbar and the appearance of the final SWF.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Selecting the 508 Compliance option makes certain elements in Adobe Captivate projects accessible or open to accessibility technology. The following Adobe Captivate elements are accessible when the 508 Compliance option is selected: Project name (derived from Project Properties). Use these tips to design accessible projects.  

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

JULY 12, 2013

You’ll learn to leverage and enrich existing Microsoft PowerPoint presentations by importing and linking into new or existing Captivate projects. You’ll learn to record, import and edit audio, and further enhance the learner experience by adding interactivity via click boxes, buttons and text entry boxes.

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Upside Learning

JUNE 9, 2010

Smokescreen project is an effort to bring Flash player to the iPhone/iPad without installing the Flash plug-in. It’s an open source project implemented in HTML5 and JavaScript. For now this project is targeted at advertisers to enable them to run Flash ads on the iPhone/iPad. Chrome 5, Safari 4 and Opera 10.53.

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Adobe Captivate

JUNE 2, 2019

But, unfortunately, I’m required to deliver the project in SWF. And when I “publish to computer” in SWF it runs, but the image is static instead of rotating. Hi everyone, I have a rotation effect on an image in Captivate. If I “publish to computer” in HTML5, it works perfect.

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Adobe Captivate

JANUARY 13, 2019

I have a project that I was publishing in both html and swf. it works just fine in preview and swf. Hi everyone!!! However, the client had issues with flash running properly and wants it in only html. that has caused problems. One slide i have looks like this: It is a drag and drop with multiple answers available.

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Brilliant Teams

JUNE 19, 2023

Client Requirement Converting legacy Flash CBT (SWF) to HTML5 Client Requirement 26 eLearning Flash-based CBT modules What is Flash-based CBT courses? These courses were created in the form of SWF files and were widely used for e-learning purposes. Thank you again for your hard work and commitment to quality.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

JANUARY 21, 2014

.   Publishing a Video Demo (cpvc) might seem like a no-brainer if you have past exerience working with standard Captivate project (cptx).   Here's what the standard Publish dialog box looks like:     When publishing a cptx project, you can elect to publish as SWF, HTML, PDF, or all of the above.

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