Exporting Captivate 3 to Flash CS3 (Vista Ultimate 32)

I saw the other topics describing issues involving exporting
Captivate to Flash, but I can't get the export to work at all. The
first couple times I tried I got the "unknown error," and now the
.cp files don't even show up in the list of importable files.
I've applied all the latest Adobe updates. I really need to
be able to work on these Captivate 3 files in Flash. Any help would
be appreciated.

Thanks for your help, Rick.
Yes, I've reviewed it and followed its instructions. I've
found that I need Flash to be closed before I start an export from
Captivate or nothing happens. (I can't import from Flash at all.)
Even when the export works, I'm only getting the first slide.
So it looks like I have some poking around to do. I was hoping this
was going to be a "press a button and go" operation (yeah, right).
-Tom

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Captivate 3 and Flash CS3 under Vista 64

Hello,
I'm having a problem with using Adobe Captivate 3 and Adobe Flash CS3 in tandem to get my Captivate project in a file format accepted by online video sharing sites such as YouTube. Since Captivate 3 does not have an option to export to .avi or any other accepted movie file format, I thought that I would export the Captivate project to Flash, and then export it to the avi file format through Flash. However, whenever I select "File>Export>Project To>Flash CS3," I get the following error in Flash:
quote:
The import did not finish because an unknown error occurred
I could not find any resources that pertained to my particular problem. I am using Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit, with a different directory structure than XP. In the Adobe Developer Center article " Exporting your Adobe Captivate project to Flash," it references a certain "RDMFISTUB.DLL" file that I cannot locate on my system. Could this problem be caused by incompatibilities with Vista?
My end goal is to post a Captivate project comprised of mostly full-motion recording to YouTube. If there is another way to do this that doesn't involve installing any 3rd-party software, I'm open to that as well.
Thank you

You said...
quote:
The much bigger obstacle is that when I export a Captivate
project that incorporates full-motion recordings with static slides
displaying a text caption to Flash and then to .mov, I lose the
full-motion recordings: they are replaced with a blank white or
black screen (whatever the background color is set to be). The
audio is gone too. I don't know what is causing this, but I would
really appreciate any help you could lend me concerning this.
I don't have a solution -
maybe someone else here does - but would offer an
observation ...
Keeping in mind that I avoid monkeying with my own Captivate
projects in Flash because of the various inconsistencie, some of
which you have seen ... I am hopeful that the Captivate team does
something to address the handling of full-motion slides. We all
know that they are created as AVI clips which are then converted to
SWF as separate slides, so it seems logical to me that there must
be a way to offer the source, that is, the AVI or a FLA either of
which would then be handled separately inside Flash (for those who
like to do their tinkering in that environment).
In the meantime, you might try to change the timing of the
(errant) full-motion slide a bit. Like, perhaps add or subtract a
tenth of a second to it or otherwise change its properties so that
the import doesn't end up as a blank. Just thinking out loud in
trouble-shooting mode... come to think of it, when the project is
published to SWF/HTM, each full-motion slide is published as a
separate SWF file. Would it be possible to publish the project,
then try to bring that SWF back into Captivate as an animation?
It's late here and I'm getting into fuzzy-thinking time, so if that
doesn't make sense, it wouldn't surprise me.

Export from Captivate 3 to Flash CS3

I followed directions located in Adobe Captivate 3's help
menu about exporting to Flash CS3. I have tried both exporting from
Captivate and Importing from Flash to move my captivate project
into flash. About 5 times, an error saying "Unknown error" had
occurred popped up. I closed Flash and Captivate a couple times and
then it worked. Several new errors popped up during the
"successful" import---worse yet, the captivate project imported
terribly! Pieces of the demonstration were all over the stage.
Long story short, something is wrong. Is this a Vista thing?
Does anyone know about any of this?

>I followed directions located in Adobe Captivate 3's help
menu about
>exporting
> to Flash CS3. I have tried both exporting from Captivate
and Importing
> from
> Flash to move my captivate project into flash. About 5
times, an error
> saying
> "Unknown error" had occurred popped up. I closed Flash
and Captivate a
> couple
> times and then it worked. Several new errors popped up
during the
> "successful" import---worse yet, the captivate project
imported terribly!
> Pieces of the demonstration were all over the stage.
>
> Long story short, something is wrong. Is this a Vista
thing? Does anyone
> know about any of this?
>
Doesn't seem to be specific to Vista.
I've had similar issues trying to export to Flash. But
sometimes it seems to
work beautifully (although always with an error message about
"unable to
find Flash.exe" or similar), aside from in issue with the
backgrounds all
importing to Flash at the wrong size. This is easily worked
around, and has
been discussed here a number of times.
My first suggestion to you is to try rebooting your machine
before trying to
export again.
Steve
http://twitter.com/Stevehoward999
Adobe Community Expert: eLearning, Mobile and Devices
European eLearning Summit - EeLS
Adobe-sponsored eLearning conference.
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Captivate 2 and Flash CS3

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Can I export my .cp files to .fla? On the captivate export menu,
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Hi loudena and welcome to our community
Flash CS3 arrived after Captivate 2 did, so it comes as no
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Hi
I am trialling v3 and just been trying out the export to
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exported.
On the exporting progress screen I am getting a 508 error -
not supported, Flash CS3 opens and I have some assets but no images
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Hi Larry
No I am not a Flash developer, just looking for an option to
have a little programmability in Captivate.
I have just spent a few months looking at options for
producing learning apps - desktop or CD/DVD delivery rather than
the web. I had settled on Arthoware but then Adobe announced they
were not going to continue with this anymore. They suggest Flash,
Captivate or Director as alternatives But Flash is great for web,
not great for desktop or CD/DVD (distributing swf files not a good
idea as they are too insecure), Captivate has no programmability
and Director has little or no question/learning objects. So really
no alternative to Arthorware.
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way may be to build individual scenes in Flash and then import
these into Captivate slides. No control over program flow or
writing to file, etc though.
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languages - Flash/Actionscript, Director/Lingo and Arthorware had
yet another language. Hopefully Adobe will copy the guys at
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Hello,
I have Captivate 4 and Flash CS3 (full versions) - WinXP.
When I want export Captivate project to Flash - "File -> Export
-> Project to -> Flash CS3" I will get only notify: "Cannot
initialize Cpativate FLA Exporter. You may need to restart Flash."
Flash CS3 is running and Captivate project is saved. Any idea?
Leoš

Hi Leoš,
I guess you are searching in the wrong place. Its not
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Flash
CS3\cs\Configuration\Importers
It should be
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<Windows Drive Letter>:\Documents and Settings\<user
directory>\Local Settings\Application Data\Adobe\Flash
CS3\<language>\Configuration\Importers
For Vista:
<Windows Drive Letter>:\Users\<user
directory>\AppData\Local\Adobe\Flash
CS3\<language>\Configuration\Importers
Windows Drive Letter is the drive in which windows is
installed into. Generally it is 'C' (without quotes)
Anyway, I dont think there is support for Czech version of
Flash to export from Captivate. However you can try this out:
Copy RDMFISTUB9.dll into
For XP:
<Windows Drive Letter>:\Documents and Settings\<user
directory>\Local Settings\Application Data\Adobe\Flash
CS3\<language>\Configuration\Importers\
For Vista:
<Windows Drive Letter>:\Users\<user
directory>\AppData\Local\Adobe\Flash
CS3\<language>\Configuration\Importers\
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Captivate 4\RDMFISTUB9.dll)
Copy RdJsfl.dll into
For XP:
<Windows Drive Letter>:\Documents and Settings\<user
directory>\Local Settings\Application Data\Adobe\Flash
CS3\<language>\Configuration\External Libraries\
For Vista:
<Windows Drive Letter>:\Users\<user
directory>\AppData\Local\Adobe\Flash
CS3\<language>\Configuration\External Libraries\
(Ex path for dll: For XP, C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe
Captivate 4\RdJsfl.dll)
Copy AdobeCaptivate Folder inside ActionScript Folder into
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<Windows Drive Letter>:\Documents and Settings\<user
directory>\Local Settings\Application Data\Adobe\Flash
CS3\<language>\Configuration\Classes\
For Vista:
<Windows Drive Letter>:\Users\<user
directory>\AppData\Local\Adobe\Flash
CS3\<language>\Configuration\Classes\
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Captivate 4\ActionScript\AdobeCaptivate)
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installed directory
(Generally this should be C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe
Captivate 4)
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I am have a consistant problem with the background slide
layer being sized when I export a Captivate 3 project to Flash CS3.
I have tried several different projects and they all react the
same. The Layer for the slide background resizes to about 1/2 of
the orginial size but the overal (screen) project size stays the
same with all other components remaining at the correct position.
I encounter the same problem when I import a Captivate 3 file
to the stage in Flash CS3 as well.
Everything else is as it should be but the graphic is
resized.
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> i'm not an expert Flash user and I can't solve a strange
problem. I hope
> in
> some useful suggestions : ).
>
> I exported several projects originally made with
Captivate 2 and re-saved
> with
> Captivate 3 to Flash CS3.
> After the export, the background slides size is
drastically reduced while
> the
> overall project size doesn't change (see also
>
http://groups.google.it/group/macromedia.flash/browse_thread/thread/840313a46eeb
>
18ca/f9a0f586a44c8376?hl=it&lnk=gst&q=export+Captivate+CS3+#f9a0f586a44c8376).
>
> I don't know what to do : ). Have you some ideas to fix
the problem?
>
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Looks to
consistently be layer 2, named Slide Backgrounds :-)
- This layer is locked. So click on the little padlock and
unlock the layer.
- Select "Onion Skin" and "Edit Multiple Frames"
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indicators appear at
the top of the timeline - move them to the start and end of
the timeline, so
they encompass the whole project.
- Select the Slide Backgrounds layer so that all of the Slide
Background
images are selected at once. You may need to also click on
the background.
- If you get it right. You'll see size and location values
for the
background in the Properties panel.
- Type in the correct slide background size, and position
0,0.
I sent in a draft technote to Adobe about this last week, so
hopefully it
will show up on Adobe.com sometime soon.
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European eLearning Summit - EeLS
Adobe-sponsored eLearning conference.
http://www.elearningsummit.eu

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OBastien wrote:
> Thank you for your reply Chris.
>
> I tried different possible solutions you listed but it's
not working.
> Disabling sound had no effects. Changing the FPS is not
an option, it has to be
> 25 FPS. I lowered the resolution to 300 something, it
seemed to be a little bit
> better, but it still dropped some frame, and the image
quality was horrible.
>
> I think it is really sad that we have to try different
settings in the hope
> that flash will grab all the frames. I'm really
disapointed in Adobe. I'm
> pretty sure it is the fault of Adobe and not Apple,
because I don't have does
> problems with Quicktime in ToonBoom Harmony. What is
strange is when I do an
> AVI export I never noticed a dropped frame. I'm not
using AVI video right now
> because I can not find a codec that gives me small size,
fast encoding times,
> the ability to seek in the movie by dragging the
timeline progress bar, and the
> possibility to edit in After Effects. If you know an AVI
codec that does all
> that it would be really great news.
>
> Thank you again,
> Olivier.
>

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>I followed directions located in Adobe Captivate 3's help
menu about
>exporting
> to Flash CS3. I have tried both exporting from Captivate
and Importing
> from
> Flash to move my captivate project into flash. About 5
times, an error
> saying
> "Unknown error" had occurred popped up. I closed Flash
and Captivate a
> couple
> times and then it worked. Several new errors popped up
during the
> "successful" import---worse yet, the captivate project
imported terribly!
> Pieces of the demonstration were all over the stage.
>
> Long story short, something is wrong. Is this a Vista
thing? Does anyone
> know about any of this?
>
Doesn't seem to be specific to Vista.
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sometimes it seems to
work beautifully (although always with an error message about
"unable to
find Flash.exe" or similar), aside from in issue with the
backgrounds all
importing to Flash at the wrong size. This is easily worked
around, and has
been discussed here a number of times.
My first suggestion to you is to try rebooting your machine
before trying to
export again.
Steve
http://twitter.com/Stevehoward999
Adobe Community Expert: eLearning, Mobile and Devices
European eLearning Summit - EeLS
Adobe-sponsored eLearning conference.
http://www.elearningsummit.eu

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System specs short:
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Hi Jim,
Thanks for your feedback. The first thing I tried was to import the MXF packages (I don't see lone MP4's) into Premiere. That did not work. So I exported the MXF files using Sony's U1 player/recorder.
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