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 [...]
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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. [...]
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 [...]
Get the Close or Exit Button to Work in Adobe Captivate
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.
A Solution to the ‘Transparent Captions in Captivate Still Result in Fuzzy Text’ Problem
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 [...]
Captivate Audio Output Settings – Part Three – Encoding Speed
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
Filesize Comparison
Summary
To [...]
Posted in Captivate Also tagged audio, elearning, encoding, encoding speed, publish, recording audio, speed, voiceover 4 Comments
Captivate Audio Output Settings Comparison – Part Two – Encoding Frequency
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, [...]
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Captivate Audio Output Settings Comparison – Part One – Encoding Bitrate
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 [...]
Setting the rdcmndGotoFrameAndResume variable on a Captivate SWF
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 [...]