Captivate 3 to Flash CS3 Problem

Hi
I am trialling v3 and just been trying out the export to
Flash CS3 option which seems problematic - no images seems to be
exported.
On the exporting progress screen I am getting a 508 error -
not supported, Flash CS3 opens and I have some assets but no images
Anyone know how to fix this?
Also is it not possible to export individual slides to Flash?
It would make editting in Flash a whole lot easier than having 1
big timelime.
Thanks
Kevin

Hi Larry
No I am not a Flash developer, just looking for an option to
have a little programmability in Captivate.
I have just spent a few months looking at options for
producing learning apps - desktop or CD/DVD delivery rather than
the web. I had settled on Arthoware but then Adobe announced they
were not going to continue with this anymore. They suggest Flash,
Captivate or Director as alternatives But Flash is great for web,
not great for desktop or CD/DVD (distributing swf files not a good
idea as they are too insecure), Captivate has no programmability
and Director has little or no question/learning objects. So really
no alternative to Arthorware.
My view based on a very quick look at Captivate is that one
way may be to build individual scenes in Flash and then import
these into Captivate slides. No control over program flow or
writing to file, etc though.
I had a feeling integration would be an issue, the
ex-Macromedia products were/are good but all built using different
languages - Flash/Actionscript, Director/Lingo and Arthorware had
yet another language. Hopefully Adobe will copy the guys at
Microsoft and try to re-build the products on the same framework
all using the same programming language, then we may have
consistence and better integration
Yours
Kevin

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>I followed directions located in Adobe Captivate 3's help
menu about
>exporting
> to Flash CS3. I have tried both exporting from Captivate
and Importing
> from
> Flash to move my captivate project into flash. About 5
times, an error
> saying
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and Captivate a
> couple
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during the
> "successful" import---worse yet, the captivate project
imported terribly!
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>
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I guess you are searching in the wrong place. Its not
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