'Ghost' lines on a PowerPoint presentation as Full Motion Recording in Captivate 6.
I have created a PowerPoint presentation as Full Motion Recording with audio in Captivate 6. When I preview the resulting video or publish it the LMS there are 'ghost' lines on the slides, as if Captivate is picking up the PowerPoint textbox outlines or grahic placement guidelines. Is there any way I can remove these lines?
Thanks Lilybiri. I made a misyake about the version of Captivate - it should have read '5.5'.
I've started a new discussion.
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Alternatively, is there any other way to make a video of a PPT so that the animations work without any user interaction?Thanks Lilybiri. I made a misyake about the version of Captivate - it should have read '5.5'.
I've started a new discussion.
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Cc text not displaying when using full motion recording
Hello everyone,
I wanted to find out if anyone has experienced a problem with
cc text not being displayed on slides with full motion recording.
I have added and sync'd the cc text on a slide that has full
motion recording. When publishing the file, no cc text appears in
the the published file.
Is there a workaround or a setting that I need to check to
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Any information which anyone can provide would be greatly
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SherryHi Sherry,
I'm having the same problem you were last year! Just wondered if you were able to find a workaround.
I have a full motion page with audio embedded in it (meaning that the audio does not show up as its own item in the timeline view). When I open the Advanced Audio Management dialog box, I'm not able to add a caption because CP4 doesn't think there's sound on this slide. (see attached screen grab -- the slide in question is slide 9. You see that the caption button is greyed out).
I've really hit a wall on this one today. I tried deleting the audio and re-adding it from the library, but it doesn't get added as an independent object in the timeline box; it just gloms onto the "captured animation" object.
Maybe it's simply not possible to have a closed caption on a FMR page? That doesn't seem right though.
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I keep encountering the following errors when trying to add
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0x7c812a5b
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After hitting end to stop recording project immediatly shows
these errors and closes. I am recording a web application using IE6
when this happens. Thoughts?1) Upgrade to Captivate 3, which is better equipped to do
full-motion slides. If that isn't an option,
2) try planning your project without the need for
full-motion. If that isn't an option,
3) try another product which is better designed for
capturing "dynamic" actions. Captivate really isn't in its own
element doing full-motion captures of any length.
Sorry I don't have better news, tsumpter, but I hope the
thoughts are some help to you.
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Hi,
I have a full motion recording that is fine until I place a 100% solid highlight over some white thext that is on part of my desktop where I am recording, set it to arrange to back and or merge with background, but when a dialog box from the application I am recording comes up, it is partially hidden by my highlight box.
I have tried it with a smart shape too, but same problem comes up...and I cannot change the desktop background in my department at work.
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RosscoRossco,
Are you talking about Video Demo recording? It is because you talk about 'merging with background', which is not possible when you are doing such a recording? The video editor allows only to put objects like highlight boxes on top of the video.
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Full motion recording in separated file then the main swf file . Why ?
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) :(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 -
Cap4 has gone insane with full motion recording
I'm using recording practices & settings that have been stable for years, but now when recording I'm getting hundreds of FMR slides when I should be getting about 5 or 6 still shots. Any ideas?
Thanks,
JennyI resorted to uninstall/reinstall--hopefully will not recur.
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PowerPoint Presentation Memory Usage
I have created a number of swf files to demonstrate the use
of a program, using Captiveate 2. There are about 5 or 6 of them,
and each is no more than a min in length. They was created using
full motion recording and the resultant flash files are no larger
than 2 MB in size.
I import these into PowerPoint 2003 as a shockwave flash
object and they appear fine when the slides are presented. However,
the computer quickly grinds to a halt, and looking at task manager
on another monitor whilst the flash files are playing, I can see
PowerPoint's memory usage ramp up at the rate of about 10 MB/sec.
Moving onto the next slide does not clear the previous slides
memory usage, hence windows quickly runs out of virtual memory.
I do not see this behaviour when I import alternative flash
files into PowerPoint. I have tried this with/without the _skin.swf
file but the resutls are the same. Has anyone seen this behaviour
before? I have also tried this on a number of computers, and the
same issues are seen.Hi High Tower
I'm surprised you aren't also seeing what we call the RSOD
(Red Screen Of Death). This happens when you have used Captivate to
record longer full motion recordings. What happens is that each
full motion clip is loaded into memory until all memory (virtual
and otherwise) becomes totally depleted. The screens begin showing
red spots and quickly move from that to the full screen being red.
This really isn't an issue with Captivate. Moreover, it's an
issue with the way the Flash player handles the full motion clips.
Sorry, but the only way I'm aware of to work around it is to
structure your projects differently. Avoid using full motion if you
can and use slide based recording whenever possible.
Hopefully this was helpful... Rick -
Audio out of sync with presentation (not using full motion)
When I preview or publish a project using Captivate 5, the audio is out of sync with the presentation. I am not using any full motion recording, which I know has caused audio/video sync issues in previous versions of Captivate. The audio is slide specific, with a separate audio file for each slide. (In other words, I'm not trying to break a large audio file over many slides.) When each slide is viewed individually -- in the workstation, in the preview window, or in the published version -- the audio is synced just fine. The problem arises only when I try to watch the entire presentation (approx. 10 minutes in length). The audio gradually lags behind the visual. By about half way through the project, the visual presentation is noticably ahead of the audio. By the end, the audio is nearly 4 seconds behind the video. I cannot detect a noticeable change in pitch or speed of the audio, so if the audio is being altered in any way, the alteration is slight.
However, if I use the playback controls to advance to a single slide, the audio is fine for that slide and those immediately after, although it does gradually get off again as the project progresses. (So, for example, if I start the playback in the middle of the project, the audio will only be off by about 2 seconds by the end, rather than 4.)
I have tried various publishing options (although I don't think publishing is the problem, since this happens when I preview the project as well). I have used 2 different computers and also tried viewing the published version locally and streaming. None of these alterations seem to make a difference. By the end of the presentation, regardless of how the project is published or viewed, the audio is several seconds behind the video.
My specs:
Captivate 5
Microsoft XP OS
2 GB RAM
Publishing to .swf
Suggestions?Hi Mukul,
Thank you very much for your careful responses. Here are the answers to the questions.
First of all, the "slow video" behavior does appear only after adding the slides mentioned in previous post.
1. I created a “software simulation” project. It IS a capture+audio recording.
2. Since I recorded the audio while doing screen capture, almost every slide has audio, which is not convenient to edit at all. Is there any other better way that I missed so that we can keep the audio and video at the same step while editing them? As I know so far, either insert silence or delete a little audio to one slide, the audio becomes short, but the slide duration time is still the same as before unless we change that manually which normally is not precise enough to match the audio.
3. I tried to add the blank slides at where there is a pause of speaking and where they are close to the problem slides. Otherwise, the speaking would sound weird.
4. Published SWF file size is 20.6 MB.
5. I do have two externalized video files for title and end.
6. Unfortunately, it is still slow even if it played on a different system.
And another problem comes up these days. After publication, the screen resolution is not good (like some grey ink left on screen) wherever click or type something. It did not happen before even if worked on the same computer.
I am very sorry that there are so many problems. I have been working on this for long time. The project totally drove me nuts. Hopefully you have more ideas about that.
I really appreciate your help.
Sincerely,
Linda -
Long delay after F10 "full motion" stop
I am new to Captivate and am recording a movie in Word where
I need user to see continuous movement of mouse cursor as I point
to different things in the Word document. I am also using
continuous audio while recording to movie. The problem is that when
I hit the F10 key to stop the full motion animation I get a delay
of about 20 seconds before the movie ends, even though I quickly
hit the End key after hitting the F10 key. The full motion movie
created is about 9MB and about 4 minutes long but with a long delay
of at least 20 seconds with no action at the end of the movie. It's
almost like my hardware is working to stop the animation and end
the movie but it is taking 20 seconds to stop the full motion
recording and ending the movie. Has anyone else experienced this
problem? I am using a laptop with a Celeron M 1.5 GHZ computer. Is
my hardware the problem?
Adobe technical support has had me reload the Captivate
program several times with no luck.
Any suggestions?Hi again Jeff
As I indicated in my earlier post, full motion in Captivate
is brief. For example, say you are recording WordPad (this example
is taken from the official Captivate training curriculum).
You record dragging across a sentence to select it. This is
just a few seconds long and ends up as full motion. You then click
the color pallete to change the color. This results in a static
slide. You choose the color. Another static slide. You step off to
show the color change. Another static slide. Now you scroll the
document to view the text at the bottom. Another full motion slide
as you drag the thumb of the scroll bar. Then you select multiple
lines. Another full motion slide as you select the lines. Then you
click the icon to apply bullets. Static slide. Then step off the
selected text to reveal the bulleted text with no highlight. A
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Cannot record Full Motion slides EVER
I recently upgraded to v.3 from 2 since I thought this would
take care of the bugs that plagued my Captivate 2 experience. While
they were annoying, I could still work around those issues
comfortably and get my work accomplished.
However after upgrading to v.3, I have not only been seeing
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of new issues. My biggest problem is that I can't get Captivate to
do FMR, ever:
- It won't record full motion slides when I scroll a web page
or drag and drop something.
- It won't do it during demo mode even if I force it with F9
and F10 (I only end up with regular slide captures where the full
motion slides should be).
- If I put Captivate in Full Motion Recording mode, it
records a single plain slide, regardless of how long I ran the
capture session for.
Any assistance you could provide would be greatly appreciated
as I am not having the best luck with your tech support helpdesk
(long hold times and dropped calls). We use Captivate exclusively
for our course development and getting this feature to work is
crucial to us. If I can't get this fixed - any way I can get a
downgrade back to v.2?
Thanks,
DanielAll, I have discovered the last Captivate update (which is
causing caption text formatting issues) is also responsible for my
issue with Full Motion Recording. I did not notice this at first
since Captivate updated almost immediately after my first reinstall
so I continued to observe the issue. The only solution I have found
is to reinstall the software and then delete the AdobeUpdater.dll
library file in the Captivate directory in the Program Files
folder, which forcibly disables the Adobe Updater - I haven't found
any other way to do this.
It's kind of frustrating since I will need to watch out for
the next update that will fix what was broken in the last one and
once that is out, reinstall the software to add back the updater. I
share the frustration that I see from many of the users here - most
of the "solutions" to Captivate issues that I read on this forum
are no more than hacks, and I wish that the software could just
work properly - that way, I wouldn't need to "fix" my issue with
the latest update through a hack like reinstalling and deleting the
updater library.
Adobe, during future product design, please consider that
maybe your users would like the ability to disable updating when
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Recording Smart Phone - full motion not capturing stylus movements
I am trying to create a recording that shows the movements of a stylus on a smart phone. I have the smart phone connected using active sync and am using pocket controller to project onto my computer. All of the captures work fine if i use the mouse to make the movements.
However, i want show how someone can use the stylus to transcribe right on the phone, rather than flipping out their keyboard.
For some reason, i can't get the full motion recording to capture the stylus movements.
any suggestions?
Thanks so much
LynnHi Lynn
I find that as good as Captivate is, it falls short on full motion. So you may wish to investigate other alternatives for those full motion bits, then drop them into the Captivate slides for playback. I've done this using Techsmith's Camtasia Studio. You might try that. Not sure if the trial will watermark things or whatever. You might also investigate Jing or Screenr. Perhaps either one of those will produce a SWF you could drop into Captivate.
Cheers... Rick
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I'm currently trying to create help files for Flash
animations using captivate instead of screen recording software
dude to file size, with the type of animation I have to activate
Full Motion Capture Recording. the problem I get is the file size
for the 10-15 seconds I'm capturing, I have reduced some of the
onscreen movement and animation so there is less action on the
recording but the file size is still a little to big and there
appears to be very little in the way of options for how the Motion
Capture is setup, in Captivate 1 there is a video quality option
which when reduced below 70% make the video un-useable so I assume
that’s why this feature is missing from Captivate 2.
Anyway I'm babbling now, I have tried to export the Motion
clip to SWF and incorporate it into Flash but upon importing to
stage the video has a lot of strange symbols that look like
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Regards
Stuart TawseHi Klaudia78 and welcome to our community
Firstly, Captivate has always been rather weak in the full
motion category. However, having said this, you may want to look at
the following options:
Click Options > Recording Options... > Full Motion
Recording tab. You may wish to make the following changes:
* Ensure the opton "Disable hardware acceleration" is enabled
(checked)
* Ensure the option "Video color mode" is 32 Bit
Click Project > Preferences... > Preferences tab and
ensure the option "Frames per second" hasn't been changed from 30.
If so, try changing to 30.
Hopefully these help... Rick -
I'm new to this whole publishing video to the web thing and
I'm quickly learning that full motion recording is a bit large to
deliver via the web. So I guess I'm asking for advice on how to
show/demonstrate a full motion action in the most efficient manner
possible. When I import the created SWF from Captivate into Flash
8, it becomes blocky (black pixel looking blocks) and does not
export in a usable fashion. I think it's from changing the frame
rate from 30 to 10.
It is possible to record at a lower frame rate for full
motion? If not, then is there a better compression scheme that I
can be using to better deliver the video?
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you!http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/flash/articles/flash_to_video.html
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shadeland wrote:
> As I start my venture into a web cartoon we are starting
I am having issues
> with keeping sounds and video together for a video. I
have tried almost
> everything but I would just like to know what the best
practice is for getting
> a cartoon to full motion video. I am very good with
actionscripting, writing
> games and apps, but I am struggling to get my content
into full motion video
> with audio. Please help!
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Cursor Trails in full motion capture
I am trying to capture a drafting exercise requiring full
motion capture. I have tried varying the frame rate as suggested in
the Help documentation but can see little improvement. Can anyone
give me some direction on how to address the issue of cursor trails
in full motion captures. My capture are is large - 1024x768
recorded at 30fps and a 2 minute movie.Hi CowanJim
If you are using Captivate 2, recording a video sequence
longer than about 4-5 seconds is asking too much of Captivate.
Captivate 3 expanded on the full motion capability, but it's
nowhere near Camtasia if your goal is to have full motion from
start to finish. This is why I see room in my toolbox for both
products. Each has its own strengths.
Things I might suggest you try would be:
* I know you have played with frame rate and didn't see much
difference.
* Close Captivate and perform some maintenance of your PC.
Clear any and all temp files, internet cache, etc. Then run a
defrag. Basically make sure the system is as optimal as you can.
Make certain you have plenty of space on your hard drive. For that
matter, if you have two hard drives, see which one is faster. You
may find that you have a C drive that is what is called a "54 spin"
or 5,400 RPM drive and you might have added a second drive that is
a "72 spin" or 7,200 RPM drive, which would be faster. So consider
clicking Options > Recording Options... > Full Motion
Recording tab. Play with the "Disable Hardware Acceleration"
setting. Here is where you might consider changing your "Working
folder". This is where Captivate stashes the full motion capture
before it gets converted to .SWF. The "Raw" data, if you will. If
you see something like C:\DOCUME~1\Rick\LOCALS~1\Temp\~CaC96, try
changing to C:\ to eliminate the folder crud. I'm thinking that may
slow things down a tad. Or, if you do have that fast second drive,
change to its drive letter. Maybe D:\. Also try changing the Video
color mode setting.
Hopefully something here will prove useful... Rick
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