Converting captivate to single flv file?

Hi,
I'm fairly new to Captivate, so forgive for my ignorance:
I've created my first tutorial and published it. When I look
in the publish folder I get a number of swf files, a html file and
activecontent js file.
This works fine, but the problem is that I want to publish my
tutorial to a streaming video server. In order to do this I need to
convert the captivate tutorial to a single .flv file (my tutorial
has no interactivity).
How can I achieve this?
Thanks in advance!

Hi rudgr
My gut tells me that we might see this output option emerge
with the next version.
It really isn't all that surprising to me if you know the
history of Captivate. See, It wasn't created by Adobe. Heck, Adobe
didn't even really create the Flash output. That was what
Macromedia created.
I'm not sure if MM truly created Flash technology or if they
acquired it elsewhere, but even Macromedia didn't create Captivate.
Yeah, they made it much sexier and more useful when they gave it
the Timeline. Before that, it was an ugly and nonsensical
application. It did cool stuff, but it made no sense (at least to
me at the time) as far as how you controlled timings and such.
Macromedia bought the eHelp corporation. eHelp owned the
product. And LOL, even THEY didn't create it THEY simply acquired
it and rebranded it under their own name. I was at a conference
working the booth for Adobe when I heard from one of the great
Adobe guys tell us that eHelp actually acquired the technology that
we now know as Captivate so they could get Macromedia interested in
buying them. So even eHelp didn't create Captivate (It was known as
RoboDemo back in those days)
eHelp acquired the technology from another company called
Nexus Concepts. The original product was known as FlashCam. So as
you should be able to clearly see from its pedigree, it should come
as no surprise to anyone that .FLV output isn't there yet.
Happy Tuesday... Rick

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