I inherited an Articulate Presenter-based piece in which the audio was recorded at different times, using different microphones, etc. The voiceover talent was no longer available so I re-recorded using new voices. I always record using Audacity, but I find it’s built-in effects are limited and weaker than the ones in Soundbooth. After much trial [...]
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How to enable Fullscreen Mode for a SWF and Does ExternalInterface Work In It?
At my day job I’ve been working recently on a project in which I needed to design and code a brand new elearning user interface/content player. It’s turned out great from a design standpoint and now I’m slowly adding features to it as I have time. Today, I got the idea to add a fullscreen [...]
Posted in Elearning General, Flash, JavaScript Also tagged fullscreen flash, fullscreen swf 9 Comments
Elearning Development Video Tutorials Now Available
I’ve been wanting to create some online video tutorials for quite a while now and, finally, I have some spare time to devote to it. I’ve created a new page on my site to list the tutorials along with brief descriptions. You can access them (currently only one, but more to follow asap) here: http://elearninglive.com/wordpress/tutorials/ [...]
Posted in Elearning General, Flash Also tagged actionscript, e-learning, elearning developer, Flash, free video tutorials, instructional design, tutorials 2 Comments
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
[kml_flashembed movie="http://elearninglive.com/cpAudioComparisonFiles/enc_speed/48-44-2.swf" height="100" width="200" [...]Posted in Captivate Also tagged audio, Captivate, encoding, encoding speed, publish, recording audio, speed, voiceover 4 Comments
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 currently [...]