Daisy Chaining Captivate Files

I am trying to daisy chain some Captivate 5 files together by using a Next button and opening the next module up as a project. It works fine on my C drive, but when I move it to a different network location, nothing happens when I click on the Next button. I've read similar posts and learned Flash settings may be the problem, but I went into Global Settings and added the network share as a trusted site and it still didn't work. The trusted site entry looks like this \\fs105001\shared\InfoSecTraining. Could it be that it isn't possible to set up security on a network share? Also, if I do get it working, and it turned out to be security, will the security settings work for other users on the network?

Setting up Flash Global Security for your own box won't make the files play from the same network location for other users. Sorry.
If at all possible, DON'T use a network share to deliver your files. Find some way to put them on a web server and use HTTP instead. Then Flash Security is unlikely to be an issue.

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Aggregator vs. daisy chain for Captivate 4?

Hello,
I am new to Captivate and I am using Captivate 4. I have a large project that I am developing (over 100 slides with audio/video included). I have read about daisy chaining and use of the aggregator. Am I understanding it correctly that the aggregator is just a formalized daisy chaining tool? I am wondering which approach to use (aggregator vs daisy chaining the old fashioned way), and if I should just go ahead and create separate project "chapters" using rule of thumb project size & then just combine them. Or, should I just create the entire project and break it up later either for daisy chaining or the aggregator. Thanks in advance for any help.
Steve

Hi there
What part of Daisy Chaining failed for you?
Just curious... Rick
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Daisy Chaining Projects in captivate 4 - Can anyone help me?????

I'm at my wits end. I have three projects that I want to seemlessly run back to back, a to b to c then stop. I have done the Edit>Preferences>Project> Start and End, Project End options - Action = Open other project, Project name for both project a & b; published the SWF w/export HTML in Flash Player 8 for all of them to the same folder; and here are my issues: 1: when i click the html file for project a: nothing runs (this could be something else, but still....:(( ) Then, just to be sane, I republished project a, and clicked ok to the view project message. I only get to view project a. no linking/daisy chain/etc.
what the hades am I doing wrong??? oh, btw, I working on a locked down pc so I can't upload the patch... and need a workaround if it's a patch thing.
shoot me.

Just a thought here but if you want to daisy chain your projects, have you considered using the Aggregator? To do this you would simply publish SWF files A,B and C, create a new Aggregator project, add the three SWF files and then publish the entire project. Once published you would then get a new SWF and web page. Double-clicking new HTML file would then load the three SWFs into a SWF wrapper.
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Captivate File Too Large on Website

Hi Everyone,
I am new to using Adobe Captivate and am wondering if anyone can offer any suggestions on how to compress an Adobe Captivate file for a website.
Specifically, I am referring to the Adobe Captivate file on this website link: http://www.crawfordtech.com/news-events/transpromo-webinar
As you'll see, it takes a while to load.
How can I make it smaller so as to lessen download time? Can I do this in Captivate? If not, what software can I use for this kind of compression.
Thanks kindly,
Jamie

Hello,
Could you give some details about the size of this project, as well for the CP-file as for the SWF (which is published). And how many slides? Mostly it is recommended to limit the number of slides to 60. When not adding audio I successfully could have CP-files up to 120 slides. And what was the resolution of the captures? Try to capture at the minimum resolution: if you use 1280x1024 the files will be much larger than at 800x600.
What were your settings when publishing, especially for SWF quality and (if necessary) for audio compression?
You can also divide a large project in different projects and chain them together with Aggregator (CP4 only) or by daisy chaining.
Lilybiri

Does daisy chaining affect assessment results?

I need to break a large Captivate 4 project file into smaller segments. If I daisy chain the resulting segments, what will happen to the assessment results from the first one or two segments. Currently, assessment results from all slides appear as a cumulative total after the quiz at the end of the tutorial. If I split the tutorial and daisy chain the segments, will the total assessment results still include assessment results from all slides in the daisy chain?
And what happens to the table of contents? Will every segment of the daisy chain have the same table of contents? If so, how would I update the table of contents if I needed to?

If you daisy chain a project then each of the projects will be a separate instance with no communication between them. Basically all assesments, TOC etc will only apply to that particular project so you wont be able to get a cummulative total for your assesments in the last chapter.
If you have access to a Flash programmer you could create functionality to store the quiz results from each chapter and then bring them all together in the last chapter.
As for the TOC there is no joy. Perhaps you could use the Aggregator function instead but the functionality and level of detail is not the same as with the TOC.
/Michael
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Daisy-chaining within an LMS

I am trying to run a web based training I created with Captivate 2 in a Meridian Global LMS. I created the WBT in segments (daisy chaining them together so that the end of one jumps to the beginning of the next). When I upload and try to make the parts work together in the LMS only the first segment works. I am exporting the Captivate files as SCORM 1.2-compliant. Has anyone been successful in getting daisy-chaining of Captivate files to work in a SCORM-compliant LMS?

Daisy-chaining files in an LMS is bad practise and will almost certainly result in failure. I bet that you have each of the daisy-chained files set to report to SCORM as well so it would probably reset and restart SCORM communication every time it loads a file.
Instead you should create a multiple SCO SCORM manifest. Since you are using CP2 you can only do this manually by using a third party tool such as Reload. If you have the eLearning suite from Adobe they have a "SCORM packager" included that could do this for you.
/Michael
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Yet another question on daisy chaining...

After having thoroughly sifted through prior discussion on the subject, as well as looked at the online tutorial (gooberguides) and other sources, I am compelled to come back and ask this question. This is Captivate 5.
Here is my scenario, and it seems to be quite simple. I have a large project, which I want to break up into smaller ones. This is so that users don't have to sit and wait for it to load from the LMS before they can start. I need to have SCORM reporting, so that users can leave and come back to where they were. I don't think I can resolve this using Multi-SCO Packager, as the resulting package doesn't appear as a single module, but as several modules within a single package. Aggregator wouldn't quite work, since it forces that TOC, which I don't want to have.
One more wrinkle in the whole thing is that I have my own TOC, which is on the first slide of Module no. 2, to which I have a link from most other (subsequent) modules.
I have successfully daisy-chained all of this using the online guide mentioned above. I used 'Open URL or file'. At first, I tried pointing to the SWF file for the next module, but when I deployed the final package, my browser (Firefox) wanted to download the next module, instead of playing it back in the browser window. Pointing to HTML file resolved that. My links back to the Module 2 (TOC) work fine. It took me a while to figure out why none of the linking wouldn't work at first. It only started working when I removed spaces from file names (this I couldn't find anywhere in documentation, and stumbled upon by myself).
My only problem (a deal breaker) is with SCORM tracking. When I publish with reporting turned on, the following happens: first module plays back throughout (all five slides). At the end, it loads the second module. However, when second module starts playing, it either freezes on load, or skips right past first 5 slides and starts playing from slide no. 6. This is telling me that the LMS is treating this as if the user has closed the session after reaching slide 5, then immediately re-opened it, so the LMS is sending him straight to slide 6, except this is now Module 2, and not Module 1. Meanwhile, user has never touched anything and has actually never left the session. Sure enough, if I leave the session at, for example, Module 2, slide 7, when I come back, LMS will be stuck trying to load Module 1, slide 7 (which doesn't exist; my Module 1 has only 5 slides).
So, apparently, simple daisy-chaining doesn't work well with SCORM reporting. Meanwhile, Aggregator (and Multi-SCO Packager) aren't doing it for me, as they force TOC to show individual modules.
Does anyone have any ideas how to work around these obstacles?

Copy the ENTIRE iTunes folder from the old computer to the new computer.
Open iTunes, everything in iTunes should be exactly as it was on the old computer.
Connect the device and sync.

How many FW devices can you daisy chain?

Have a new iMac w/ one FW800 port. Need to daisy chain eight FW800 hard drives, two FW400 hard drives, and one FW400 DigiDesign Digi002 ProTools mixing board. I was planning on daisy chaining all the FW800 drives then coming out of the last of those with a FW800 to FW400 cable into the first FW400 drive, daisy chaining to the 2nd FW400 drive, then daisy chain from it into the FW400 ProTools mixing board. I know that's a lot of chaining but at the moment those are the devices I have to work with. I have A LOT of video and audio information I need to retain. Seems to me that I read somewhere about a maximum length a firewire daisy chain could be but haven't found any more reference to it when I just looked. All of the devices have their own power supplies so I don't believe they will be drawing much, if any power from the chain. Anybody know of any problems with this setup?

Thanks for the info.
I've tried several scenarios and combinations what I've found is that I can put all the FW800 drives in a daisy chain then put the 1st FW400 drive in and lastly the Digi002 mixing board (which is FW400). When I try to add to this any more drives I get unpredictable results. I have therefore bough another 2TB external drive and hooked it up through USB 2.0 and copied many files to it from the older FW400 drives as well as the only FW800 drive that ever game me headaches. It should be noted that it is a Western Digital My Book drive. It seems like it would be a great drive having FW800, FW400, and USB 2.0 connections. In practice, however, I have had LOTS of problems both on my Macs and PCs I tried using it on. I recommend strongly that you avoid using any MY Book drives. I'm having better luck with practically any other manufacturer, including what I would normally consider no names like SimpleTech and Buffalo. Those drives seem much more stable.

I have a Mac Pro tower with two internal Hard Discs, each one 2TB. I purchased a 3TB Time Capsule. But it does not allow me to back up because it says there is not enough back up space available. Between the two HDs there are 3.3TBs. Can I daisy chain TC?

I have a Mac Pro tower (OSX version 10.6.3) with two internal Hard Drives, each one 2TB.
I purchased a 3TB Time Capsule. But cannot back up because it tells me there is not enough space.
I have more than 3Tbs to store to the new TC.
Can I daisy chain two TCs to store the 4TBs?
How can I back up only the internal HD that is already full, without backing up the other one?
How can I do back up using Time Machine to back up the 3.5Tbs?
Do I need to purchase another external HD (that is not TC) to be able to back up all of my photos?

Can I daisy chain two TCs to store the 4TBs?
No, you cannot link to produce a single large partition.
But you can have two separate backup jobs.. and use each partition. That is hard on TM but you can easily get a different backup software for it.
How can I back up only the internal HD that is already full, without backing up the other one?
In TM you do a different setup and exclude the other drive.
But it is better to use an alternative software IMHO.
How can I do back up using Time Machine to back up the 3.5Tbs?
You would need to use a network drive of more than 4TB .. it would also take forever. This is just wrong way to do it. Although you can buy a NAS that will work with Time Machine and load it with disks 16TB is possible.. if you can get a second mortgage.. the fragile nature of TM on 3rd party devices.. would leave me in cold sweat if anything went wrong.
TM is excellent at keeping incremental backups of files that keep changing.. as such you should use TM to backup your OS disk and main user directory.. exclude all files and directories that never change. Back them up separately.
Do I need to purchase another external HD (that is not TC) to be able to back up all of my photos?
Yes, that is a much better idea. You want to store photos safely and you want to store them in multiple places. If you have multiple TB of photos, dedicate a couple of disks to the backup. ie have at least two copies.. not in backup format.. in straight copy format if possible.. so you can keep one of the disks offsite.
I would be using your MacPro internal disk access, to place the disk onto sata bus and do the copy disk to disk direct. Or even buy esata card.. or sata to esata converter cable so you can use esata box. That will beat any other transfer speed except thunderbolt for which you would need third mortgage. (The MORT in mortgage is significant).
The great jurist Sir Edward Coke, who lived from 1552 to 1634, has explained why the term mortgage comes from the Old French words mort, "dead," and gage, "pledge." It seemed to him that it had to do with the doubtfulness of whether or not the mortgagor will pay the debt.

Daisy Chain USB To FireWire?

Hi all.
I'm not really sure where to post this, so any suggestions about a better place would be great. Anyway, here's my question.
I do a lot of work with photos, and they take up a lot of hard drive space, so what I'm planning to do is this: I'll buy a big external hard drive with lots of connections (1 USB, 2 FireWire 800, 1 FireWire 400). I'll also buy a smaller external hard drive with much less in the way of connections (1 USB only). The big drive will act as my main storage drive, with all the files for each image included on it. The smaller drive will act as the bakcup drive, with the top 20% or so of my best photos in only a compressed format on it. I want the smaller (backup) drive to be as cheap as possible, as I don't have much of a budget at all. Here are the two drive selections I've made: big drive:
LaCie Big Disk Extreme+ Triple
Small drive:
WD Elements
Desktop
So, here's the question: I know that you can daisy chain FireWire drives that have more than one port together, like this:
A cable from FireWire port on Drive A to FireWire port on Drive B, then a cable from another FireWire port on Drive B to the FireWire port on computer. I know this works (right?).
But I don't want to have to spend more money on Drive A (the backup drive) so that it has a FireWire port. Since Drive B (the main drive) has a USB port, I thought I would run a USB cable from Drive A to Drive B like this:
*Setup 1*:A cable from the USB port on Drive A to the USB port on Drive B, then a cable from the FireWire 400 port on Drive B to the FireWire 400 port on the computer.
Will setup 2 work? Will the data from Drive A make the crossover from USB to FireWire? If not, I suppose I could also use this setup:
*Setup 2:* A cable from the USB port on Drive A to one of the FireWire 800 ports on Drive B, then a cable from the FireWire 400 port on Drive B to the FireWire 400 port on my computer. Will this work better? Do USB to FireWire 800 adapters really work?
So, basically, all I really need to know is whether or not Setup 1 will work, and if it doesn't, whether or not Setup 2 will. Also, if anyone has any info/reviews/stories about the two drives I've selected, I'd love to hear that as well.
Thanks so much in advance for any help I get. Sorry about the long post; I hope it made sense.
Thanks again.
Nate

nate12345 wrote:
Thanks for the response!
What about Setup 2, though? Does someone sell a USB to FireWire Converter?
Nobody has heard of a USB to FireWire converter that works.
The first example you gave would require a USB B to USB B cable or perhaps a "gender bender". Both of the drives you're looking at seem to still use the original full-sized USB B port, while many have gone to the mini-B. It wouldn't work anyways since both are USB slave devices. USB was never designed to daisy-chain.
Why can't you just connect the USB-only device to the USB port. If you're strapped for ports, then maybe a USB hub. You wouldn't even need a powered hub if you have a few low-powered devices and this external drive which doesn't use bus power.

Can I daisy-chain a G-RAID Pro 2TB with a bunch of other G-RAID's?

Hey there,
I'm wondering if there would be any issues adding a G-RAID Pro into my current daisy-chained G-RAID configuration.
- I've got seven 500GB G-RAID's all daisy-chained together and running into my G5.
- Two of my 500GB G-RAID's are RAIDed together so the first one is connected to the onboard Firewire 800 port of my G5 and the other to my additional Firewire PCI card.
- The remaining 5 drives are daisy-chained into the drive that is connected to the onboard FW 800.
This hasn't posed a problem thus far, but I'm wondering if adding a whole new G-RAID Pro is possible with this configuration, or if there's anything I should know before I decide. I left a message for the tech department at G-Tech but they're so busy over there I figured I check in here.
I'm thinking about getting the G-RAID Pro 2 TB because I have 2 projects coming up for which I'll need a whole lot more space than I currently have. If anybody has any other hard drive suggestions I'd be open to them as well, of course.
Thanks a lot for any thoughts,
Joni
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Jerry, did you see my post the other day? I don't know if there is a conflict or not, but I've had some serious firewire problems for the last year and just last weekend I was unable to access any media files that were on a lacie for a specific project. And when I tried to copy the files (after closing fcp and running diskwarrior on the drive), I kept getting error messages. When I came in the next day and started the system with the graids disconnected, the lacie performed perfectly. Seems like there might be some sort of conflict. Or just a weird one time occurence. But since I've been having all sorts of weird inconsistent problems with firewire drives and I did have a mixture of lacie and gtech drives my instinct says it might be the source of the problem. I just installed a burly 5 bay sata enclosure, so my need for firewire drives, except for sneakernet, is over.
I post this kind of stuff with the hope that if someone is experiencing weird firewire behavior, they can try to eliminate at least this possible cause.

Daisy-chain a thunderbolt external drive & thunderbolt display?

Although you can't daisy chain multiple thunderbolt displays to the new (mid 2011) Air's are you able to connect a thunderbolt display and daisy chain a thunderbolt external hard drive?

1. As stated in the questions and answers section of the link you posted, no.
2. Connect it to the MacBook Pro, start File Sharing from the Sharing pane of System Preferences, and use the Connect to Server command in the Finder's Go menu on the iMac.
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Daisy Chain and Branching cp 4

Is it possible to use the daisy chain approach and maintain branching that has been created in a lesson? I have dependancies that have been broken when I broke my large lesson file into 4 smaller lessons. If it isn't possible, does anyone have a good work-around?
Thanks

Your setup is either completely incorrect or the figure is confusing/incorrect.
Please see these instructions on how to connect and configure the two routers.

Daisy chain set up dual DVD writers and dual drives

Which comes first in a daisy chain? I have dual sets of DVD burner/external drives connected to a hub as two sets. With each set should I hub to the DVD burner or hub to the external drive first in the daisy chain or does it matter?

To restate and update now that I know a little more.
I have a C2D Intel Santa Rosa mini 2GHz/2GB with one Firewire 400 port and four USB2 ports.
I jumper from the mini FWa to the Apple 20in monitor which then gives me two FWa ports as a hub sharing bandwidth for four separate units - two LaCie d2 Quads, a Sony DVD burner, and a LG DVD burner in a Ratoc enclosure. Since I don't use everything at once, that's okay. My main use is one or the other of the DVD burners. The Sony is Region 1 and the LG is region free for some international DVDs.
Viewing DVDs with this setup using VLC and a Logicool speaker setup works fine.
I have a fifth unit which is a Maxtor FWa/USB2 drive connected to a USB port.
When I do DV capture I disconnect all devices from the single FWa on the mini and use it for the camcorder with capture into the internal drive. The files are moved to one of the external FW drives with the USB as the scratch disk.
I haven't tried to capture on the USB drive so that's still ahead of me. My Canon camcorder will not daisy chain using FW.
As I see it, the mini is okay. A MacBook would not gain me anything since it has a single FWa port. A MacBook Pro would not gain me anything, with one exception, since both FWa for the camcorder and FWb for the external drive are on the same bus. The iMacs are the same. I'd have to move to the Mac Pro to start getting an advantage.
The lone exception for the MBP is using an Express Card for eSATA. I could put the camcorder on the FWa port and a LaCie Quad on the eSATA port card. Since the LaCie Quad has FW it could also be used for an external boot if needed away from home. At home the MBP would still drive the 20in Apple monitor.
Mac mini, MBP or Mac Pro are my choices. The least expensive, yet still suitable, is the mini. It runs iMovie 08, iMovie HD for a little more editing oomph, and FCE 4 if I want still more editing stuff.
Thanks for pitching in an clarifying some things for me. 8-)

Daisy chain lacie drives?

hi,
how do i daisy chain my lacie ex drives because i dont have many usb ports available at all.
vheers
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Here at Combat Films and Research we have been working on a project over the last 10 months and it has been growing steadily.
We are shooting HD and the files are obviously quite large. We now have the project spread over 5, 1TB Lacie hard drives. Furthermore, they are of two different versions. Two have the concave blue button and no powers witch on the back. The other three have the convex blue button and a power switch on the back.
When we have more than one drive hooked up the write speed drops from 44MB/s to 15MB/s (ish). Regardless if we hook on the the front bus and the other to the rear or any other way to combine them.
Does anyone have any answers for this or even better, solutions to the problem?
best wishes,

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