Came across some good stuff over the past week. Usually I’m too lazy to blog about this stuff, but I gotta hand it to Microsoft – they suck at a lot of things, but Windows Live Writer kicks ass. Nothing else out there touches it.
So, without further adieu….
Resize the Slide Notes Window
Anyone who has recorded [...]
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Using the Adobe Elearning Suite Workflow – Can Substitue Fireworks for Photoshop
As I sometimes am too quick to do, I’ve been stewing for a while now, since the Adobe Elearning Developer Suite was released, about why they included Photoshop instead of Fireworks. I totally understand why they might do this – more Photoshop users than Fireworks.
So last week I went out and bought a tutorial [...]
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Tracking User Progress in Captivate 4 Using Variables and Actions
Wanted to take a shot at exercising Captivate 4’s new (and very useful) new features: actions and variables.
To try them, I decided to create something useful (for once!) by putting together a sort of ‘user progress’ slide. The premise is that there is one central slide that is a ‘jump-off’ or starting point for users [...]
Capivate 4 Text-to-Speech Feature Review
I’ve been using Captivate 4 extensively for a week now and I think it’s just a completely different product from previous versions. It’s awesome, while previous versions were just marginally useful to me. Heck, this blog gets hundreds of readers per day and you know why? Because of the Captivate posts. But as I’ve told [...]
Don’t use width or height properties of Loader with AVM Captivate SWFs
Found a bug? Or just a limitation? Either way, if you try loading Captivate-generated movies into a Loader instance, like this:
var myLoader:Loader = new Loader();
myLoader.load(new URLRequest(”myCaptivate.swf”);
myLoader.width = 400;
myLoader.height = 300;
addChild(myLoader);
The result will be that the Captivate gets loaded but you won’t see it. You can hear it so long as you have sound in it. [...]
unloadAndStop in Flash Player 10 – Necessary for Captivate and AVM1 Content
I spent a good part of yesterday trying to figure out a solution to this problem:
- I had coded a course ‘gui’ with navigation controls such as previous/next buttons, and a List component for the non-linear navigation.
- The list component is populated via an XML file that contains the path to the individual swf, and [...]
Adobe Releases Captivate 4 and the Elearning Suite
Today, Adobe released Captivate 4 and the ‘Elearning Suite’. As I stated in a previous post, Captivate 4 is a must-have, monster upgrade for any Captivate user. It is the first Captivate release that can reasonably produce a complete elearning content package. Prior versions either forced users to live with the inadequate and ugly ‘menu [...]
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Adobe Captivate 4 Coming Soon
According to this Adobe employee’s blog, Adobe Captivate 4 is not too far off from being released. How long that is exactly is your guess. In case you haven’t heard (and you probably have, since a handful of fanboys have been spilling the beans prematurely – apparently they have some sort of side-deal going on [...]
Captivate Audio Output Settings Comparison – Part Three – Encoding Speed
Update 12.28.08: I meant to publish this months ago, when I first wrote it! It’s been sitting in my unpublished ‘pages’ list, of all places, as I mistakenly left it there (why I put it into a ‘page’ versus a ‘post’ I have no idea!).
This is part three of the testing, where I’ll focus on [...]
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Captivate vs. Camtasia – No Contest…
The company I am employed by has recently acquired a new software application in which the original developers embedded some elearning modules. The modules are a combination of static slides and screen recordings. The tool of choice by the developers was Camtasia. I’ve used Camtasia in the past but only for quick, no edits needed [...]