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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. The compression JPEGs is controlled by the JPEG quality percentage via the SWF size and quality preferences (via File > Publish Settings ).

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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. Size of SWF output files is an important consideration for many content developers as it takes longer time for end users to download larger files. The different quality levels you can choose for a project are.

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eLearning Development: 4 Tech Considerations When Using Videos

Upside Learning

You can use this bitrate calculator to gauge what quality of target video you would need based on your requirement. However, for encoding hundreds of high quality, high length professional videos, you can consider other third-party software which provides several options/setting to deliver professional videos. Playing back videos.

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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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The Open Screen Project – Will It Succeed?

Upside Learning

The most important one is Adobe removing restrictions on SWF and FLV/F4V specifications. So one can now develop software that can actually “play” SWF content. It would help eLearning developers to focus on developing engaging and quality experience without concerning about technical difficulties. What’s Adobe’s contribution?

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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.