Captivate for presentations?

I need to create a presentation for a client that will play on any system and fit on a thumb drive so the client can plug it in to a computer and run the presentation. It would not require that an application be on the computer (e.g., powerpoint or keynote). Keynote was able to do this by exporting to quicktime with chapter markers so each click advanced the presentation to the next slide but alas the latest update of quicktime for mavericks took away this feature.
Could I use captivate to create a standalone html5 (or other format?) presentation that advances to the next slide or action (reveal text, fade out etc) each mouse click?
Captivate looks interesting to me because I could maybe use the presentation as a foundation for interactive material as well.
Thank you for your help.
Cheers

LOL, actually it was ME that said it gets converted to a SWF. What you do is look at slide properties and you will see that the background cannot be changed and it lists a SWF file. So based on that, I've always understood that the process of importing creates a SWF and configures it magickally to be the background.
When you said video, I was thinking perhaps we now are seeing a new playing field and maybe each slide would have a camcorder icon or the timeline with a red line through it.
So bottom line is that nothing changed in that respect.
Cheers... Rick

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