Is Captivate for me?

I've just downloaded the demo of Captivate 2 and I'm really
impressed.
However, before I can consider using Captivate over the sim
builder that came with our LMS I've a few questions for you
experienced users!
Sorry if these have been answered 100 times before - I've
only been using Captivate for a couple of days so it's tricky for
me to know what to search for!
1. In our existing sim builder, slides have two narration
panels; the first with precise instructions for taking a learner
through the sim for the first time to learn ('show me') and the
second to run through it again with little handholding to
demonstrate learning ('test me'). This is roughly equivalent to the
'Training Sim' and 'Assessment Sim' modes in Captivate.
So, if I record a training sim, can I then run it as either a
training sim or an assessment sim? Or if not, can I make a copy of
the project and convert the training sim to an assessment sim
without having to edit each slide?
2. Can I get a text entry box to grab the focus when its
slide starts? E.g. if the interaction coming out of the last slide
was to click in a click box positioned over the 'enter name' field,
the user would expect the text entry box to have the focus in the
next slide.
3. Is there a keypress interaction - e.g. press 'F10' to go
to the next slide? I 've found I can make F10 the shortcut key to a
text entry box with a blank correct answer, but that assumes that
the the box has the focus which may not be guaranteed.
I'm sure I'll come up with a million other questions, but
those are good to be going on with for the moment!
Thanks :)

quote:
Originally posted by:
Shnoogins
1. ) Simulation + Demo Answer
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?forumid=67&catid=467&threadid =1239302&enterthread=y
2.) Yes, the timeline is used to establish the focus, or
timing.
3.) See answer # 2. ;)
I use "multiple" outs for the 'next slide' button in my CBTs.
F-10 as an option, as well as a "Next" button. I set them
both up the same way on the timeline, and I set the end result
(continue or go to next slide, etc..)to be the same on both.
Thanks for taking the trouble to reply Shnoogins - I'll
experiment with 2 and 3. It's a shame you can't do multimode
captures but I think the world won't stop turning if I have to do a
bit of editing
I've still got a few reservations about the way text entry
boxes work, plus the issues of right click, drag & drop, and
shift click which I've seen there are 'sort of' answers to, but I'm
really impressed with this software. We've got a few £ left in
this year's travel budget; I wonder if buying it counts as a
'journey'!

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I have not been sent a serial number after subscribing to Captivate for a year. Does anyone know how I can get it? Or how to actually speak to someone in Adobe ??? Very frustrating!
Thanks

You have to just sign in with your Adobe Id during the installation process and it will validate your subscription from the activation server. Once your Id is validated then your subscription will be activated. You don't need serial number to activate subscription.
You may download the product from the link mentioned below.
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?product=captivate
Regards,
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I just read some posts from 2006 and 2007 about Captivate not
being available for a MAC. I was checking to see if there has been
any change in direction for developing Captivate for MACS.
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reusing some of the content for other audiences. The video and
audio editing of the MAC will make this project much easier. I
would like to use Captivate and a MAC. Any chance this could be
accomplished?
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Larry, I realise that this response may be a little late for
you, however others may come across this with the same question.
You can use Captivate on a Mac (using a virtual windows
installation) however this will not allow you to record Mac
applications, only what is in the Windows OS.
For details on performance of Captivate CS4 in a virtual
environment see
here.
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Matt.

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Using the latest version of either Adobe Presenter or Captivate on a Windows system with a web cam (or similar video capture device)
, we’d like to add a video narration to a PowerPoint presentation that is synchronized to animation contained within the slides. Cur
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This will set everything up to convert your MTS file to 720p and reduce the file size by around 30% with little quality degradation in my experience so far.
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Is Adobe Captivate for me?

Hello,
I came across Adobe Captivate and the eLearning Suite while looking for screen capture video software. I don't know if this is going to serve my purpose and that is my question.
What I would like to do is create tutorial videos through screen capture and video recording. For instance, I might record how to install a sound card into a PC, then I might want to record my screen as I show how to check for the latest Drivers, I want to be able to talk the user through this as I go of course.
So is this software what I am looking for? Can it do all this, or would I be better off with something else?
if Anyone has rich examples of this software doing something close I would love to see them! After all, seeing is believing.
Thanks in advance!

Hello,
My 2cents. For the software training, Captivate is indeed for me personally the best app around, and I have been trying a lot (Camtasia, Smartbuilder, Viewletbuilder...).
Of course you have to record the video (that is not possible with Captivate) with a video-recorder. In CP5 importing the video (Adobe Media Encoder will be automatically used for converting if it is not flv) and working with it has become really great. You can spread the video over different slides, readjust the timings, resize, insert Text Captions on the slides with video, add Question slides, audio ...
Would recommend to go for the eLearning suite if budget allows it, because besides Captivate you will have some other great apps (Flash, Photoshop, Soundbooth, Dreamweaver, Acrobat Pro,...) and moreover very nice roundtripping to Photoshop and Soundbooth.
Lilybiri

Adobe Flex or Adobe Captivate for an eLearning Platform

A client of mine would like to build a project where he would like to keep track of students as the go through Math Lessons and Quizes of each Chapter, with the potential to post their achievements to facebook and so on.
Before I jump into Captivcate, I need to make sure that Captivate can do what we need:
- Simple Animation explaining a Math problem
- Interaction with User when Needed
- Able to track Student on where they're reached
- Able to continue on a Mobile
- Quizes
I am curious to know if I am able to code in Actionscript if need be, say to post to facebook.
Please do advise me if I am able ot perform all these in Captivate, or Simply build such a platform in Flex?
Thanks

I have done stuff with Authorware/Flex/CP. Here's my take:
- Simple Animation explaining a Math problem:
YES
- Interaction with User when Needed: I don't understand what you mean ?
If you mean like drag/drops, hotspots ...etc ...then...YES, SOMEWHAT. Hotspots are very basic. Drag/Drop...you can build/buy widget to do this...buying has its limitations.
- Able to track Student on where they're reached:
YES.
- Able to continue on a Mobile
MAY BE...if have an LMS and your mobile device supports FLASH....so forget about i-Devices.
- Quizes
I dont like the default quiz slides in CP at all. They are very convoluted and too many buttons to do simple things. It's better to build your own quiz templates or use different tools for this.
You can use Flex to build stuff that you can't do in CP and embed in CP as swf widgets. You would need the lib to have Flex swf to communicate w/ CP.
I just wish that CP can do stuff like Authorware.

Captivate for Soft Skills?

The short story is that Authorware is officially dead. LAME!
So we need a new authoring environment / publisher for creating
CBTs for CD delivery. Adobe is pushing Authorware users toward
Capitivate and Connect. I know that Captivate does more than screen
capture, but how much and how easily... that's not clear.
We would prefer to build content in Flash and import the .swf
files into a 'publisher' (more or less the same work flow as we
used in Authorware) so we are looking for a tool that will handle
(primarily): • assembly • .exe creathion • user
login / information storage • test creation, tracking and
other metrics • certificate printing. Can anyone inform me on
this?
Thanks in advance!
Eric Hartmann
Education Specialist
AZ Supreme Court

Assembly: should be fairly easy, assuming the import of
external SWF
files works well. You just import them to the slide you want
the SWFs to
show on and should be fine...if that's all you need by
'assembly'.
.exe creation: is possible too by selecting the 'Standalone'
publish
setting, which will give you an .exe. I think this is the
Captivate SWF
file 'bundled' with the Flash player? Not sure exactly how
that works.
User login/information storage: if you're using an LMS, not a
problem.
If you're not using an LMS, problem. There are a few threads
about how
to hack Captivate output to record to a standalone database
which may
work. There's an article somewhere on Adobe's site by Andrew
Chemey on
how to do that...
Test creation: no problem, especially with CP3 (apparently)
as there are
more quiz templates available. You won't have the
flexibility that
Authorware provided as you're limited to pre-defined types
(think KO)
but probably fine for most needs.
Tracking: again, to an LMS, no problem...though what you can
track is,
again, limited to what Captivate offers...but you can track
most any
interaction I think. If you want to track to not-an-LMS, see
above.
Other metrics? Probably not, but what do you mean...?
Certificate printing: no way I've seen. That's usually a
function of
the...wait for it...LMS. No LMS, not sure how you'd do it
(maybe use JS
to open a webpage that has a pre-filled Certificate? Not sure
how you'd
pass the user name...)
If you'd like, contact me directly (erik at capemedia dot
net). I've
done work with other state court systems and may have
alternatives to
suggest.
Cheers,
Erik
Eric of the Courts wrote:
> The short story is that Authorware is officially dead.
LAME! So we need a new
> authoring environment / publisher for creating CBTs for
CD delivery. Adobe is
> pushing Authorware users toward Capitivate and Connect.
I know that Captivate
> does more than screen capture, but how much and how
easily... that's not clear.
>
>
> We would prefer to build content in Flash and import the
.swf files into a
> 'publisher' (more or less the same work flow as we used
in Authorware) so we
> are looking for a tool that will handle (primarily): ?
assembly ? .exe
> creathion ? user login / information storage ? test
creation, tracking and
> other metrics ? certificate printing. Can anyone inform
me on this?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Eric Hartmann
> Education Specialist
> AZ Supreme Court
>
Erik Lord
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Macromedia Captivate for OS X

I am a pc convert who used to use Macromedia Captivate to create how to videos on different software systems... Now I have converted almost all to OS X but I need software which I can use to create how to's like Captivate does. Anyone know of similar software for OS X?

Thanks for your reply. I don't use itunes so that couldn't be it. Reading about Little Snitch and Hands Off, however, educated me about the data harvesting in many apps and that when buying from the AppStore one will more likely get Apps with benign data harvesting.

Captivate for WBT

Can someone advise me if Captivate is the best platform for
developing a training interactive program? I won't to use CS3
photoshop and flash as graphic builders, then need Captivate or
Aruhorware to complie for a WBT.
Next question is how can I track quizz participation and
sores on a centeral web site?
Many Thanks
Steve

I would qualify, how suitable Captivate is depends on your
content. If
you want to develop training, say, on how to fix a
dishwasher, Captivate
may really not be the best tool in favor of other tools, like
Authorware. However, if you're doing software training,
Captivate is
MUCH better suited than Authorware.
That's not to say you can't do either type of training in
either piece
of software, but they are much better suited for particular
types.
I echo Mark's comment on the need for an LMS as the best way
to approach
tracking to a central website. However, with Authorware,
this isn't a
requirement. You could easily use Authorware functions to
post results
to a web page, which then writes to a database.
An LMS does make such things easier though, as well as
providing user
management, reporting, and other such tools. If you're
interested in an
LMS, I suggest you include Inquisiq in that research:
http://www.inquisiq.com
HTH
Erik
murf638 wrote:
> Can someone advise me if Captivate is the best platform
for developing a
> training interactive program? I won't to use CS3
photoshop and flash as
> graphic builders, then need Captivate or Aruhorware to
complie for a WBT.
>
> Next question is how can I track quizz participation and
sores on a centeral
> web site?
>
> Many Thanks
> Steve
>
Erik Lord
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Captivate for ipad apps

Was wondering if anyone (is it possible) to create educational content and then use them in an ipad application to be submitted to the app store??
Right now I'm using dreamweaver and phonegap build and was wondering if anyone has created their content for an ipad app on captivate and then used it in an app...??? thanks!

Hi
I'm sorry to have to tell you that the PhoneGap interface has changed since that video was made: you can no longer simply upload files, but instead have to work through a github account.
I tried to do this, but failed: the Github interface and workflows were completely incomprehensible to me.
So, back to square 1: Could you tell us how to convert a Captivate file to an iPad app?
Cheers
Johan

Captivate for presentations?

I need to create a presentation for a client that will play on any system and fit on a thumb drive so the client can plug it in to a computer and run the presentation. It would not require that an application be on the computer (e.g., powerpoint or keynote). Keynote was able to do this by exporting to quicktime with chapter markers so each click advanced the presentation to the next slide but alas the latest update of quicktime for mavericks took away this feature.
Could I use captivate to create a standalone html5 (or other format?) presentation that advances to the next slide or action (reveal text, fade out etc) each mouse click?
Captivate looks interesting to me because I could maybe use the presentation as a foundation for interactive material as well.
Thank you for your help.
Cheers

LOL, actually it was ME that said it gets converted to a SWF. What you do is look at slide properties and you will see that the background cannot be changed and it lists a SWF file. So based on that, I've always understood that the process of importing creates a SWF and configures it magickally to be the background.
When you said video, I was thinking perhaps we now are seeing a new playing field and maybe each slide would have a camcorder icon or the timeline with a red line through it.
So bottom line is that nothing changed in that respect.
Cheers... Rick

Captivate for a mac?

Is Captivate available for a mac, or is available only for a windows pc?

Hi there
Presently only a Mac version is available. But stay tuned! Who knows what may emerge in the next version!
For now, the only products I'm aware of for Mac are ScreenFlow and Camtasia Studio.
Cheers... Rick
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Do you recommend Captivate for elearning?

We just learned of Adobe's decision to discontinue support of
Authorware. We recently spent several thousands of dollars
purchasing the software and training courses to learn it. Does
anyone in this forum have AW and Captivate experience that could
let me know if Captivate would be worth converting to?
Thanks!

There's been some reply to your post in the Authorware forum.
The only
thing I can add is, if you are doing either software
simulation or
fairly basic 'elearning', then Captivate is a suitable - if
not better -
piece of software than Authorware.
As to whether Captivate is worth converting to, it depends on
what
you're trying to create. Obviously, if it falls within
Captivate's
capabilities, then it's a decent replacement. However, I'd
say Captivate
will not be a suitable replacement for at least 50% of the
projects we
develop simply due to their complexity and Captivate's
limitations
(tracking is limited to SCORM, no complex/custom interaction,
no
Xtra/U32 support, no ActiveX control support, limited media
support, etc.)
Erik
Hotel Accounting wrote:
> We just learned of Adobe's decision to discontinue
support of Authorware. We
> recently spent several thousands of dollars purchasing
the software and
> training courses to learn it. Does anyone in this forum
have AW and Captivate
> experience that could let me know if Captivate would be
worth converting to?
>
> Thanks!
>
Erik Lord
http://www.capemedia.net
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Captivate for beginners

I'm new to Captivate and all I want to do is record sequences for demonstration but it's proving to be a hard thing to do. Any points, is there a way to view a slide as soon as you record it. What are the parameters for recording a slide and how do you rerecord.
thanks,

Hello,
Do you see the camera icon in the filmstrip on every slide? If yes, I think you have recorded in Full Motion Recording mode. That is not a good idea, because FMR is like a video recording and editing a video is not that easy. Please try to record in Automatic mode, and since you are a 'beginner', choose Demonstration mode.
If you are talking about the camera in the control panel (see screenshot), choose the still camera icon (second) to start Automatic mode (with the video camera icon you would start Full Motion Recording). To start the recording press the red button, to stop use the key END. When you are back in Captivate you will see your recording spread over multiple slides and you will be able to edit the slides. You can insert/delete slides too.

Captivate for the iPad

The Captivate solution for publishing for the iPad seems to be html5. My questions are:
1. Will I retain my interactivity?
2. We currently track correct mouse clicks in our simulations for knowledge assessments, will I be able to do this with html5?
3. Will I still be able to pass tracking information to my lms?
4. how does SCORM play into laa of this? and
5. Are there specific browers and/or browser requirements to run html5 modules
Thanks is advance

Hello,
Welcome to Adobe Forums.
1) When you create a project in Captivate 6.0, click on Window -> HTML5 Tracker, there are some object which are not supported in HTML5 (Those object will appear in HTML5 Tracker)
2) This works in HTML5
3) I am not sure which LMS are you using but I have tested in Acrobat.com and cloud.scorm.com, it works
4) laa ????
5) IE9 and Firefox 14 and Google Chrome 21
Thanks,
Vikram

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