Captivate Playbar or my own (basic non urgent question)

Hi
If anyone has time to answer this question I would be grateful.
What are the advantages or disadvantages of using Captivate (Cap5) own playbar instead of me using my own forward, back buttons etc.
What do you professionals do?

Depends on the need...
Sometimes we just pick a default/standard playback bar and include it.
Sometimes we lightly modify an existing one.
On occasion, we have to make our own custom one (but one still based on a default bar...thankfully Adobe provides the source FLAs for them).
We almost never bypass the playback bar altogether and put our own standard navigation on the slides.
For one, there's really no advantage to that over the overall functionality CP's playback bar offers.
Also, coding those buttons can be difficult.
Plus you have to put the buttons on every slide. Or you can try 'show for rest of project' but that doesn't seem to work well (fairly, we've not tried that since CP 2 or 3). I don't think you can put nav buttons on the Master Slide in CP5 and above...?
We do, of course, create custom buttons on individual slides as needed - various interactions and such - but for overall navigation, far easier to either use a standard playback bar ("skin"), or modify one through the skin editor, or create your own custom one entirely if you know Flash well enough.
HTH
Erik

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