Multiple videos in Captivate 7

If anyone has experience with this scenario, I would greatly appreciate your suggestions --
I have multiple training videos that I want to put together into a single Captivate file. Each video will be on its own separate slide, with a table of contents that navigates to each video. On some slides there will be text and pictures, in addition to the video. The output needs to be compatible with iPad, so HTML5.
Is Captivate a good tool for this, or wil the file size be prohibitive because of the video files (each video is about 15MB). If so, is there some way to smoothly integrate the videos with a link and perhaps store them in a different location on the web?
This project does not need to be compatible with an LMS, although there may be some simple quiz slides included just for the learner's benefit.

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