Full motion recording in separated file then the main swf file . Why ?

Question

Dear all,
When you publish your projet with
captivate 3 , now the full motion recording sequences are in
separated .swf files ...
I would have prefer to only have one .swf file with the
content and one with the skin as it was the case in
captivate 2 .
Is there an option I could change to only have the swf file
and the xx_skin.swf file
only ?
Imagine the mess I would have on my learning web site if I
had more then one swf file for each learning sequences (as I store
all .swf file in the same folder) :(

Answer 1

Hi all
What kiwikangaroo listed is John's method. Since the basic
process has already been outlined, I'll add some things that should
be considered as well as a caveat or two.
First, the existing project should be published to a
temporary folder. When publishing, it is rather critical that you
ensure that you are publishing for a Flash 7 target. I believe if
you choose Flash 8 or 9, the process will fall apart.
Once you have done this and are at the point where you are
inserting blank slides, make sure each blank slide is timed exactly
matching the slide with the Full Motion clip. Then you insert the
matching Full Motion clip from the temporary folder onto the blank
slide and delete the original. This will need to occur for all
slides containing full motion clips.
There are a few animations out in the gallery that if used,
will also cause additional .SWF files to be created. This is
because the animations that do this were published as Flash 8 or 9
and not 7 or earlier. I've sorted the ones that embed fine and the
ones that don't. So if you run into this issue, you either don't
use that particular animation, or you use something like SoThink
SWF decompiler (or open the .FLA) and recompile it using Flash 7 as
the target. That is, assuming you have Flash available and know how
to use it.
Cheers... Rick