Insterting vidoes in Adobe Captivate 8: best practices?

I am looking for some information about the best format/ best practices for including mp4 videos in my responsive design courses. My company uses a lot of courses that may be just a 2-3 minute video accompanied by a quiz. I don't know much about video formats, so I'm looking for some knowledge on which format will work best in our LMS as well as maintain a crisp quality with reduced load times. If anyone has anything they could share or links to information, I would appreciate it.
Thanks

Yeah, wasn't really expecting the file extension change to work - but it has worked for me in the past with other types of software, so I reckoned it was worth a shot. Desperate times call for desperate measures...
Anyway, I know that this was a long time ago. In fact, I was triggered by your question whether I was absolutely sure the files were made in Cp3. So I investigated further and discovered that some of the files are actually Captivate 2... We're talking 2007 here. Luckily, I was able to open the rest of the files that have been created in 2008 through Cp5. As for the one course created in Cp2, I'll probably have to extract the images from the swf and build them anew...
(The reason we haven't updated the courses until now is that our client has never requested this. In fact, we were under the impression the courses were no longer running, but now appear to be still in use.)

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Been searching all over in case someone has already published Best Practices for Captivate 4.0 (particularly the new/enhanced features), but coming up empty. My client's in house graphics person has been tasked with creating a template for us to use for a number of software simulations. He's running in to these challenges:
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Good Morning,
i'am looking for some sort of best practice, handling a lot of audios within single captivate slides. Please let us take a look at the workflow:
I write concepts in Word or OpenOffice, describing on a slide-base the content, media (pics, animations, ...), interactions
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