Captivate, Presenter, or both?
I'm currently using the trial version of Adobe Captivate and Adobe Presenter with serious considerations to purchase and was wondering if I needed both or just Captivate? I create eLearning courses, which go into a customized LMS system (SCORM 1.2) with reporting capabilities for thousands of people (used a different software program previously).
When in Presenter, I found I need to publish a Captivate interaction as an .swf then import into Presenter. When in Captivate, I found I can import my PPT slides into Captivate. So I know I can make it work either way. But as far as which is better to be compatible with an LMS that is SCORM 1.2 compliant, does anyone have any ideas?
If I DO need Presenter, these are the issues I need to resolve, but cannot seem to find any answers:
Presenter issues
1) Some text on a number of slides (inevitably) becomes blurred when I publish
2) TOC cannot be modified (i.e. showing only segment of topics at a time, till they reach the next segment)
3) No bookmarking features (have user come back to where they left off)
4) Only one quiz can be tracked/inputted into course, but our courses all have a Pre-Test AND a Post-Test
5) Animations are extremely slow, even when I increase animation speed
6) Some of the image formatting features don't work (for example, I put soft edges on an image, then when I publish, it comes out with very defined edges)
Thanks,
Susan
PIP is available in Presenter Video Creator, not in the normal Presenter plug-in. It is not available in Captivate normal projects with extension cptx. You can insert a PIP in the TOC, but have to record it separately.
In Captivate HD Video Demo, extension cpvc (which is also a video creator with a dedicated video editor) you can insert a PIP in the editor. But again you have to create it separately.
The choice is up to you: an easy way to have both recordings together, with very limited editing possibilites in Presenter. Or the Captivate way, more work, better editor.
Afraid to repeat again: we are only talking about pure video now. In the normal Captivate files, that are based on slides, you can insert a video (like a PIP) and distribute it over slides, adapting the slide markers is available in the Video menu. No webcam recording for the moment in Captivate.
Lilybiri
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Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan, IndiaHi Sukalyan,
Greetings from Adobe.
You can go either for Adobe Captivate 7 or Adobe Presenter 9 (which is an addin to powerpoint) which are Flash based interactive elearning tool.
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Hello, please forgive me if this question is posted elsewhere.
Is there a way to convert a Captivate interactive training module to an IPOD and keep the interactivity? Just looking at some other ways to incorporate training.
ThanksI haven't had a chance to give it a try yet, but I recently found
a tutorial on just that topic complete with file samples on the Adobe site.
Mobile learning: Adobe Captivate content on video iPod devices
by Silke Fleischer
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/captivate/articles/ipod.htmlhttp://www.adobe.com/devnet/captivate/articles/ipod_02.html
it appears she suggests a third party .swf to video file converter, but this is a 2008 tutorial...perhaps there is an easier way.
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"It's extremely easy to convert an Adobe Captivate project into a passive video file using Sothink's SWF to Video converter"
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Welcome to Adobe Forums!
Adobe media Encoder is actually a complementary application which gets installed with several application as a component, this iincludes Captivate. hence, if you have other application installed as well whose Trial has expired. it would mean the Adobe media Encoder would have have got out of the trial mode.
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