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 [...]
I get this question fairly frequently, so here is a link to an Adobe Technote on the subject.
Also, for further reading (with code sample), consult Andrew Chemey’s article here.
I was asked this question via email the other day and I just had to shake my head. No, not that someone asked it - I’m just amazed that after 3 releases of Captivate with this same problem, more people aren’t going ballistic over this bug. The problem is in using transparent captions. I hadn’t [...]
This is part three of the testing, where I’ll focus on the encoding speed setting and its effect on filesize and audio quality, in reference to voiceover audio.
Published SWF Files
Summary
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This is part two of a series of articles written with the express purpose of finding the best filesize-to-quality ratio for publishing voiceover audio out of Captivate. Part One can be found here. At the end of the series I’ll provide my thoughts/opinions, followed up by a tabular summary of the facts. And, of course, [...]
I’ve been wanting to do this for a few years but have never had the time. Goal: determine exactly what the optimal audio output settings in Captivate are for voiceover audio, which is 99% of the audio I use in Captivate (and I could care less if background/intro music is not fm quality!). I’m [...]
I just completed a project in which a custom flash wrapper was used for navigation, where the captivate swf’s are loaded in dynamically via an xml-based navigation setup and into an empty movieclip.
Because the client needed their navigation menu links to target specific frames in particularly long Captivate swf’s, I had to use the rdcmndGotoFrameAndResume [...]
Although the title sounds promising, I don’t have time right now to really offer a solution yet. I’m just alerting anyone who hasn’t tried to incorporate Captivate 3.0 swf’s into their Flash/Flex/AS3 projects:
Captivate 3.0, although giving you the capability to publish to Flash Player v9, compiles to ActionScript 2.0 specs. Hence, when the player opens [...]
Ever needed to have a “Replay?” or some other dialog box appear when a Captivate movie ends?
A reader of my blog, Sean Bezdicek, emailed me a while back with the following:
Hello Mark
Your blog saved my sanity. A few months back you blogged about inherent variables inside a Captivate .swf.My goal was to have a [...]