Adobe Captivate won Best of ELEARNING! 2007 award!

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with the conquered title, it cost all the efforts dedicated to this
fantastic technology.
Congratulations to every team of the Adobe Captivate and the
Communities that do from this technology an evolution in the
market

Tell me, if Adobe isn't operating at this level, who is?
There is little excuse for Adobe if it isn't winning awards.
Anyone who pays for Adobe software knows that we expect
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Adobe Captivate 5- Color Issues (excel 2007)

Please help me!
I am using Adobe Captivate 5 and am recording 2007 excel. When I have completed the movements, the images and background appear to be fine.
As soon as I preview or publish the colours of the cells and objects (e.g. highlight box) get mixed up:
Either the colors start moving into different areas, or dissapear or randomly move as the screen moves (This image was taken when the screen wasn't moving). Is this a software bug? Anyone had the same issue? Any way to resolve this?
I appreciate the help!

Hello,
Could you check the video quality of the slides? You find this in the Properties panel of the slide, region General. Perhaps it is set to 'Low, 8-bit. Try to change to one of the other settings. On the Captivate blog you'll find a great explanation about this Video Quality. Have a look at:
http://blogs.adobe.com/captivate/?s=Slide+Quality
Lilybiri
PS: see this is your first post, so 'Welcome on the forum!'

Insterting vidoes in Adobe Captivate 8: best practices?

I am looking for some information about the best format/ best practices for including mp4 videos in my responsive design courses. My company uses a lot of courses that may be just a 2-3 minute video accompanied by a quiz. I don't know much about video formats, so I'm looking for some knowledge on which format will work best in our LMS as well as maintain a crisp quality with reduced load times. If anyone has anything they could share or links to information, I would appreciate it.
Thanks

Yeah, wasn't really expecting the file extension change to work - but it has worked for me in the past with other types of software, so I reckoned it was worth a shot. Desperate times call for desperate measures...
Anyway, I know that this was a long time ago. In fact, I was triggered by your question whether I was absolutely sure the files were made in Cp3. So I investigated further and discovered that some of the files are actually Captivate 2... We're talking 2007 here. Luckily, I was able to open the rest of the files that have been created in 2008 through Cp5. As for the one course created in Cp2, I'll probably have to extract the images from the swf and build them anew...
(The reason we haven't updated the courses until now is that our client has never requested this. In fact, we were under the impression the courses were no longer running, but now appear to be still in use.)

Best Practices for Team Collaboration using Adobe Captivate

With a team of 6 Instructional Designers, how can Adobe Captivate be approached where we can collaborate while producing e-learning material while maintaining a consistent look and feel of the e-learning we produce?
What are the best practices for a team of 6 IDs working and creating e-learning material in Captivate? Is there anything build-in that allows us to connect to the same libraries, templates, etc to share?
Please advise.
Thank you!
Susanne

Only some tips, never collaborated with someone else, being the solo teacher. You didn't mention which version you are using, what I write here is meant for CP7.
Be sure to prepare a theme and/or a template that will be used by everyone. A theme consists of master slides, object styles, skin editor. Master slides can have custom navigation shape buttons. In a template you can eventually also prepare different slides with placeholders, and eventually advanced actions etc. For CP6 and earlier that is the only way to reuse advanced actions, in Captivate 7 you can export shared actions that can be imported in any project for reuse.
A feature that few users know about are the external libraries. You can open the library of any project as an external library in another project. That is a good idea to store assets that you want to use in different projects: images, audio clips, video clips, eventually equations. The shared actions in a library can not (yet?) be used in another project however.
If you are on CP7 you have automatically the roundtripping with source Adobe Photoshop files and source Audition files, both from CC. That can also make collaboration lot easier if those assets are prepared in those applications. Will not expand on that, because I'm not sure you have the Creative Cloud applications.
Those are my two cents.
Lilybiri

Adobe Captivate 6 won't open

Hi all
I use Adobe Captivate 6 in a corporate environment, and I'm currently experiencing issues running Adobe Captivate 6 after installing it.
For some reason when the laptop is taken off the network Adobe Captivate 6 would refuse to open at all.
Error: "Theme file copying failed. Try manually copying Adobe Captivate theme files from "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 6 x64\Gallery\Layouts\6_0\en_US" to " \My Adobe Captivate Projects\Layouts\6_0\en_US"
I have searched all the "My Adobe Captivate Projects" folders on the drive and copied the contents from C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 6 x64\Gallery\Layouts\6_0\en_US to all the folders matxhing "My Adobe Captivate Projects" but no avail.
Adobe Captivate 6 will then immediately quit and exit; unable to open Captivate..
Any ideas? Thanks!

There is one major problem / defect with Captivate 6 on corporate networks. Even though it is possible to change the default locations for "Published projects" and "Cache files" it is not possible to change the default location of the Themes folder.
The Themes folder is always stored under My Documents in ”My Adobe Captivate Projects” in a sub-folder called “Layouts”. The "My Adobe Captivate Projects" folder is created under My Documents no matter if you changed the default locations or not. Changing the default location for "My Adobe Captivate Projects" will indeed do just that, and any saved projects will end up in this folder no matter where you place it. Trouble is that Captivate insists on creating that same folder again under "My Documents" to store the theme files.
If you don't have access to "My Documents" when you are offline or disconnected from your network you will not be able to start Adobe Captivate 6 no matter what you do. It will fail and shut down continously and there is nothing you can do about it.
I know this because at my work our My Documents are stored in a Roaming Profile on a server. I do have access to My Documents even if I am disconnected from the network, but we have a storage restriction on the My Documents folder of 100 MB. If you exceed this then the directory will become read only (which also makes Captivate go fubar and not start). Now this is a rather big problem since the Captivate themes folder take up 162 MB, so already upon installation of Captivate my storage restriction for My Documents is exceeded.
So in my infinite wisdom I decided to just delete the theme files as I didn't plan on using them anyways, but it turns out that is not possible.. Well of course you can delete them, but every single time you open up Captivate 6 it recreates the themes in your My Documents folder and once again screws everything up. I contacted Adobe about this and was notified that there is no way around this. The themes must be placed in My Documents and if you delete the folder then Captivate will recreate it again. I later found out that you actually only need to keep "blank.cptm" and "white.cptm" but can delete all other files (provided that one of these two is set as your default theme). That means that the Themes folder will "only" take up 20 MB of space in My Documents instead of the 162 MB. This is of course better and allows me to actually use Captivate, but it's still 20 MB wasted space of my precious alotted 100 MB.
So.. If you don't have a My Documents folder when you are working offline from the network you will never get Captivate 6 to work.
In my humble opinion this is a major design defect in Captivate 6. I sincerely can't understand how such an oversight can be made when you would expect that a large percentage of the Captivate users are actually working on corporate networks. I don't really see the reasoning for hardcoding the path to the Themes folder so it is placed in My Documents regardless of what you set the default locations to. Apparently Captivate has no problem actually grabbing the files from the installation directory and recreating the folder every time you delete it, so it would have made more sense to just make Captivate read the theme files from the installation directory to begin with.
I wrote this article - http://www.cpguru.com/setting-up-adobe-captivate-6-in-a-corporate-environment/ - back in August about the problems I had getting Captivate 6 to work on a Corporate Network. However, it won't do you any good if you do not have a My Documents folder when you are disconnected from the network unfortunately.
Sincerely,
Michael

Adobe Captivate, or the whole Adobe eLearning 6.1 Suite?

I am building eLearning modules for staff training across a Province - would I need Adobe Captivate, or the whole Adobe eLearning 6.1 Suite?

Maybe I was not clear: Captivate is not included in the CC but is a separate subscription (which I would recommend over buying license, better price/quality value).
All depends on what you want to develop? I'm using both Photoshop and Audition (from the CC) intensively for graphical and audio assets. I also use Illustrator (inserting vector graphics as smart objects into Photoshop because of its roundtripping functionality with Captivate). Edge Animate is included in the CC and is great for creating animations. I'm also using several other applications.
But if you are buying graphics, or use another graphics editor, and can live with the audio created within Captivate (or use Audacity), don't need animations etc, you could just start with Captivate subscription?

I've downloaded Adobe Captivate 8 64-bit Free Trial, installed but the program won't open.

I've uninstalled and re-installed, tried the 32-bit version with the same result. It says it's installed successfully. I'm on a Windows 7 64-bit PC.
Recommendations??

Moving this discussion to the Adobe Captivate forum.

Adobe Captivate 4 won't stop using my webcam

Hello to all.
I am using Adobe Captivate 4 to make some projects.
The problem is, after i install AC4 i can't use my webcam.
I reinstalled my OS, and i installed my applications one by one and after instaling AC4 my webcam stops working.
It says to close the application that is using it.
How can i stop AC4 to use my webcam?
Thanks!

Hi there
Is this an external or internal WebCam?
This is odd because Captivate generally cannot record using a WebCam. However, I note that my Microsoft LifeChat WebCam also has a built in microphone. So I'm wondering if it's the Microphone that is being used or seen by Captivate.
Cheers... Rick
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Adobe Captivate File: Won't Open, Fatal Error

I'm on a Dell PC Laptop. I've saved an Adobe Captivate 7 file, then exported it to Flash format. I can't open the FLA or SWF files that I exported. When I try to open the original Adobe Captivate file (using Adobe Captivate 7) it gets up to 60% and stops and says a "Fatal Error" has occurred and the program needs to close. I can't even open the Adobe Captivate software program to start a new project. My coworker tried opening the saved Adobe Captivate file on his computer but it said it was "open by another user or the file was corrupt" so couldn't open it there either. Please help!

Click on Organize -> Folder Options
Go to "View" Tab and check "Show hidden files and folder"
Once you click on "OK", you will see AppData
Thanks,
Vikram Gaur

Adobe Captivate Reviewer - won't load .crev file in Vista

Using Reviewer for the first time (Captivate 4 on Vista box).
Downloaded Reviewer from email link
Clicked on .crev file from email link
In the Reviewer, got message "Unable to load SWF file. Try opening Adobe Captivate Reviewer in the Administrator mode" (see pic)
Clicked OK
Clicked the .crev file in email link again per message "Load Adobe Captivate Movie (.crev, .swf., or .zip)"
Got same "unable to load.... " message again (see pic). Viscious circle here
Downloaded Reviewer to my XP machine - all works like it should.
What do I need to do to my Vista box (primary machine) for the Reviewer to work?
SMILES
Susann

This issue arises because, for some reason, the adobe developer(s) have hard coded a temporary file location of "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate Reviewer <X>*\workspace" to store the .crev, .swf or .zip file when you open it from its original location. In most corporate environments "\Program Files\ or \Program Files (x86)\" is, correctly, restricted to non-administrative users to ensure the integrity of managed applications and the industry standards for temporary storage have been long established as \temp\, \windows\temp\ or <user profile>\appdata\temp\
The corporate workaround to your issue is relatively simple. Your user account needs to be granted the privilege to be able to create and own the workspace folder in the above location. If this is not feasible then you could always just copy the entire contents of "C:\ProgramFiles\CommonFiles\Adobe\Adobe Captivate Reviewer <X>*" to a location on your machine where you have full access, i.e. your desktop.
Ultimately Adobe development need to update the code in Adobe Air.dll to create the workspace in a temporary folder that conforms to industry standards
* (with <X> indicating the version of Captivate Reviewer)

Adobe Captivate 7.0 crashes

Hi All,
I have problem with Adobe Captivate 7.0. (full version) After install AC 7.0 and put serial key Adobe run good.
But after that when I close AC and reset OS and logonagain to user profile AC 7.0 don't run. Software was started for few seconds and shutdown.
Could you somebody help me in this issue. I use OS Windows 7 Enterprise edition.
Best Regards,
Pawel

Hi Pawel,
Can you please try delete preferences and layouts are try launching captivate again.
1) Rename the layouts folder present at C:\Users\Public\Documents\Adobe\eLearning Assets\ to "Layouts_backup"
2) Double click on the 'CleanPreferencesWin' file from the 'Installation folder\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 7 x64\utils'
Please try re-launching captivate after this.
And by "reset OS" did you mean restarting your computer?
Regards,
Haridoss

Adobe Captivate and DPS/InDesign - Simulations

Hi, we're working on an elearning/ebook product into which we want to include some practice simulations. (The ebooks are for training on specific software.)
I've successfully created the type of simulations we'd want to build (just a simple one for a test for now) where I record a short "training" in Captivate where it's recording mouse clicks with the popups to warn you if you click in the wrong place.
I want to include this simulation in InDesign for a DPS publication.
I have tried using the Wallaby beta application from the Labs to produce my FLA as HTML5. However, I get a few errors like this:
Unsupported feature: Dynamic Masks are not supported
Context stack:
Mask contains multiple framesets: FrameSet[0]: frames[0,0]
    Layer[0]: Bounding Box
      TimeLine[0]: Slide_7
        Slide_7
          Slides (Adobe Captivate)
            Symbol: Adobe Captivate Objects
And when I insert the HTML5 produced into InDesign, and run the Preview in Content Viewer, it runs automatically through the screen captures, with no user click input and without the popup tips or warnings I had in Captivate.
Am I doing it wrong, or is this not yet possible in DPS? Is there another way to do it if this way doesn't work?
(PS I literally started learning Captivate this afternoon, please go easy on me!)

Hi there
While you are using Captivate, I'm going to have to say you are really asking in the wrong place. Certainly the question doesn't seem related to Captivate Quizzing features or working with a Learning Management System, so for starters you are in the wrong forum category. But that aside, I do hope you realize that the HTML 5 converter is BETA software. Being that as it is, I'm not sure you are allowed to actually use anything produced by it in a distributable product. Not to mention that because it's in BETA, that could also account for some of the issues you are facing. So from that standpoint, if there is a feedback or beta forum for the HTML 5 converter, you may want to ask there.
Otherwise, this would seem to fall squarely into the InDesign realm. You might try re-posting in the InDesign forums.
Best of luck to you in sorting it... Rick

Teething troubles with Using Adobe Captivate

Hello I have never used Adobe Captivate before, and would be grateful for some answers. I know people are very busy and may not want to deal with beginners but any comments suggestions partial tips will be gratefully appreciated
I am trying to do screen recording and run into difficulties. I want to record a short (<10min) video of an instructive tutorial that plays on the internet. This tutorial has slides, and it is advanced by hand (manually) to the next slide
I was able to record video correctly, using the "Full Motion" mode. But when I use the other 2 available modes: I.e,Automatic, and Manual, I am not able to record. What happens it, I merely get a still picture upon playback, that runs as a video for 3 seconds. It turns out somewhere in "settings" there is a default which says slide length =3sec. It looks like what I am getting recorded is a single slide, containing the very 1st scene. What have I done wrong?
What I need to record are slides, some of which contain video and speech, some containing video but no speech,some are stills. In the Full Motion Mode
The video is being recorded split into many bits , and these bits (slides) are unequal in length, the first slide being of longest duration, the last slide is of shortest duration. Should they not equal in length? Also how to convert into "normal" formats like AVI? What kind of media player would play these presentations/slide shows when each slide is a short video? Further I do not hear any audio.
Also what is panning
I am shunned because I am a woman and no one helps me with anything because I am supposed by a tacit rule to be with women ALL THE TIME and I am failing in what I am supposed to do. I have no means of using my brain or actively pursuing science and technology, and others in it will not speak to me because of my defiance of that rule. I hope some MAN who doesn't mind will volunteer answers and I promise not to bother you again. I won't speak to you again, I wont come ont his site again, I have women's numbers.I wil be very grateful if you help me
Thanking you,
Yours SIncerely,
Milliemachine3

Hi folks and welcome to our community Milliemachine3
All I can say is... wow! I'm not sure where you live, but it sounds sort of "stuck in time" if you are really made to feel like an outcast just because your body has different parts.
All that aside, I'll take a stab at answering your questions.
I was able to record video correctly, using the "Full Motion" mode. But when I use the other 2 available modes: I.e,Automatic, and Manual, I am not able to record. What happens it, I merely get a still picture upon playback, that runs as a video for 3 seconds. It turns out somewhere in "settings" there is a default which says slide length =3sec. It looks like what I am getting recorded is a single slide, containing the very 1st scene. What have I done wrong?
The only thing you have done wrong is to misunderstand how Captivate is used to record screen activity. How successful you will be will depend on the version of Captivate you have installed as well as what your operating system is. For example, if you have Windows 7 64 bit and you are trying to use Captivate 4 (or earlier) you will likely encounter problems. But if you were using Windows XP you would likely be fine.
You may also be misunderstanding exactly how Captivate records the screen.
What I need to record are slides, some of which contain video and speech, some containing video but no speech,some are stills. In the Full Motion Mode The video is being recorded split into many bits, and these bits (slides) are unequal in length, the first slide being of longest duration, the last slide is of shortest duration. Should they not equal in length? Also how to convert into "normal" formats like AVI? What kind of media player would play these presentations/slide shows when each slide is a short video? Further I do not hear any audio.
I'm not sure I've ever seen ANY software that does a flawless job of recording screen video where you are playing a video clip. You have to understand that video is usually memory and processor intensive. Not only for recording it, but also for playing it back. If you can, you will likely achieve your best result by locating the actual source file for the video and using that with Captivate. However, this somewhat depends on your Captivate version.
Also what is panning
Panning is a feature that allows you to record a smaller area of your screen. As you move the cursor around, the recording area is shifted to include parts of the screen that maybe weren't in the recording before. Maybe you are recording a 200x200 sized area. You are in the upper left corner of the screen performing some activity such as opening the File menu. But you move the mouse over to the right side to scroll the page. The recording would look as if you were peering through a small window and the larger area that was formerly hidden would appear in the window.
I am shunned because I am a *woman* and no one helps me with anything because I am supposed by a tacit rule to be with women ALL THE TIME and I am failing in what I am supposed to do. I have no means of using my brain or actively pursuing science and technology, and others in it will not speak to me because of my defiance of that rule. I hope some MAN who doesn't mind will volunteer answers and I promise not to bother you again. I won't speak to you again, I wont come ont his site again, I have women's numbers.I wil be very grateful if you help me
Well, I sincerely wish you the best in your Captivate journeys. Hopefully it will comfort you to know that what you are experiencing isn't a universal rule. I think women and men are equals. And anyone that believes differently has a very stilted view of the world.
Namasté... Rick
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Can I pick up from where I left off with my Adobe Captivate subscription?

Hello,
I had a subscription for Adobe Captivate for almost two years. I fulfilled my 12-month requirement, and paid my monthly subscription price for another 10 months after that.
About 6 months ago now, I canceled my subscription.
Question: Is there a way to simply reactive my subscription?

Hi There,
The best way is to place a new order of Captivate 8 annual subscription online by visiting our website :-
Elearning Software, Screen Capture, Mobile Learning, HTML5 Publishing | Adobe Captivate 8
Click on buy and then choose subscription under I want to buy drop down menu and place a new order by which you will not face any billing/ credit card issues in future.
Regards,
Ajit

How to get a quiz developed with a timer in Adobe captivate 8

I want to develop a quiz with 10 questions. So those who answer max correct answers with less time should be announced as winner
Current version 8 doesn’t show the option to publish file into exe.
Also I have few issues with the current package I prepared.
Not sure how to get the timer
enabled in the package.
Need to add logo on all slides
3. How to add hyperlink
for Adobe Registration.
Some experts please help me

Well, first, I believe if you update CP8 to the latest version:
Adobe Captivate Help | Adobe Captivate 8 patch
Then the .exe option is restored to Captivate.
But that probably won't help your other request.
For Captivate itself to know if someone's score is best, it has to know what all the other users' scores are.
How will it find that out? (especially as an .exe which is going to likely have even a harder time getting info from the web)
The best way to do what you want is to use an LMS with that 'leaderboard' feature (i.e ExpertusOne)...so it can evaluate everyone's recorded scores and show the best.
And even that would probably need a hack as I *assume* it basis 'best' on the score, not on the time.
So even if you could do a timer in Captivate, it has no way of knowing other users' scores nor a way to evaluate which is 'best' even if it did.
(you might be able to work that all in with extensive JS hacking?)
Fortunately, the logo is pretty easy - put the logo image on the master slide(s) you use in the piece.
What sort of Adobe Registration do you mean?

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