Video Based AE files in Captivate 5.5

I'm probably an idiot to be asking this now, but .... should I be concerned about crashes if we build a course with 8 modules of video based content where the file size averages around 50mg per module? To create a graphic novel look'n'feel, we have created 8 modules of content in Adobe After Effects that we will be pulling into captivate 5.5 for a structured learning environment where users can answer content related questions, view captivate developed simulations and link out to additional pieces of supporting content on an internal server. It will be loaded to and delivered via corporate-based, SCORM compliant LMS.

Whether it crashes browsers may not be your biggest issue. If each module is 50 megabytes in size and you have 8 of these that's going to represent a significant bandwidth hit.
My guess is that your biggest issue may turn out to be how long these modules take to load and begin playing, as well as whether they buffer (stop and start) while playing.
Some SCORM-complian LMSs have limits on the size of SCORM modules. Make sure your LMS can handle a course of 200 megabytes in size.
Also, since you mentioned "linking out to additional pieces of supporting information on an internal server", be aware that this actually goes against SCORM standards where everything the course needs is supposed to be encapsulated inside the individual SCOs in the course. In some cases, linking outside the SCO will break the communication link set up with the LMS when the course begins to play. Sometimes (and with some LMSs) you can get away with it, but it's definitely not recommended practice.

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Video-based training and Captivate

I'm new to Captivate. My company focuses on film production
and we have been asked to create video-based training modules for a
large customer. We do all of our production work in Final Cut and
then we transcode videos to Flash (.flv).
We intend to create online courses that are video-based ( we
will add audio voiceovers) plus we will want to add still images
with audio and text (assessments, additional content, etc.).
Finally, we will need to upload our modules into a tier 1 LMS
(Saba, SumTotal, Oracle iLearning, etc.).
Is Captivate the tool for us?

Overall, Captivate is probably a good choice for you,
especially if you're already publishing your materials as FLV.
That said, you should probably be aware of the following when
using Captivate in the manner you've described:
1) Per some recent forum posts, a few folks are having
trouble getting FLV files to play all the way through. The video is
being cut off at the end for some reason. I suspect it's a case of
user error when configuring the slide timing, but you might want to
do a search of the forums and see if those folks ever got things
resolved.
2) Audio seems to be hit or miss in Captivate. Some folks
have problems, others have none. It seems mostly to do with how the
audio is brought into Captivate (recorded directly in the product
vs brought in as externally-recorded WAV or MP3 files) and where it
is placed (inserted at the slide level, or attached to a specific
button, such as a "Play Audio" button. I don't use audio in my
projects so I can't comment on the actual details, but again, a
search of the forums might be helpful.
3) Captivate publishes FLV files to the web as external files
that are dynamically loaded when the content is accessed. This
could potentially be a problem if the LMS doesn't allow a SCO to
consist of more than one file (seems unlikely, but worth mentioning
just in case).
4) Captivate offers a preloader that ensures enough of the
movie has downloaded prior to starting playback (and the preload
percentage is customizable if you own Flash). However, I don't know
if the preloader takes embedded videos into account, which could
impact your user experience if your movies are big and take a long
time to download.
5) Captivate advertises compatibility with SCORM-compliant
LMS products, but the published files often require tweaking to
work with a particular LMS. The forums will be helpful in this
regard, but there may also be some trial-and-error finding the
exact changes you need to make to support your specific LMS.
6) Captivate does not support multi-SCO SCORM manifests. If
you plan on deploying a multi-SCO course via SCORM, you'll need to
use a 3rd-party tool to create the manifest file. There's a number
of free and commercial products available that support both SCORM
1.2 and SCORM 1.3 (2004). A fairly comprehensive list can be found
here:
http://adlcommunity.net/mod/data/view.php?id=201
Hopefully, other folks will chime in and offer assurances for
some of the issues raised above, but those are the main issues that
I've seen in the Captivate forums that might affect you.

Working with video files in Captivate

We have recorded a short video that we want to insert as an
animation in to Captivate. We've saved the wmv file using
Moviemaker as an avi file, but Captivate doesn't like it. A message
pops up to say "This avi file cannot be converted to swf". Any tips
on how to get a simple video in to Captivate?

Usually when audio is heard but the video is unseen, it's a
codec issue.
What codec are you using for the AVI creation? I'd think it
is having
issues being converted to SWF. Try exporting the AVI with a
different codec.
Generally, I would stay away from trying to load .avi files
into CP
directly (as you've experienced).
Converting to FLV would be the next best thing (if not
better) to a SWF
conversion. Don't worry about the streaming - if there's no
FLV (FMS)
server, the movie will still play. However, if you're having
sync
issues, that also seems likely to be a conversion issue -
mostly related
to the codec (?). Perhaps try a different conversion tool -
the one
you're using seems to be...flaky.
Related to SteveC's reply, I find conversion from QT to FLV
to be the
smoothest, so if you can output to QT (.mov), you may have
better luck.
If you can't export the original movie to QT, try MPEG or
MPEG2.
HTH
Erik
4views wrote:
> Thanks Rick for another prompt reply. Unfortunately no
quick fix so far on
> this one. We have used AVI Video Converter to save a swf
file. This file we
> can place in to Captivate and it plays just fine in the
edit screen. However,
> when we preview the movie, the video portion cannot be
seen,...
Erik Lord
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Is it possible to "convert" a PPT/Presenter file to Captivate and retain the audio, video, etc.?

Hi - I'm wondering if someone has done this or can recommend the best way to do this.
We have a PPT/Presenter file that was created using PPT 2010 and Presenter 9. We recorded audio for the training right in Presenter and have also imported videos into the file using Presenter.
We need to output the file to DVD to actually play on a DVD player. We know we can do that with Captivate (we are using Captivate 5) and are wondering if there is a way to take our file (the package so to speak) and get that to open in Captivate and retain all of the pieces that we have added to it (audio, video, hyperlinks).
Or, alternatively, if there is a way to publish our Presenter file to DVD format, that would work for us too.
Thank you for any information or suggestions!
Emily

Hi Emily,
Presenter contents and captivate contents are different. but you can achieve it using the following steps in presenter.
1. Open you presentation.
2. GO to Adobe Presenter>>Publish .Publish dialog will open.
3. Check the CD package checkbox and publish the content.
4. Now Goto the publish folder and burn the content on DVD.
After successfull Burn, You can play on DVD player.
I hope this will work for you. Kindly let me know if you are facing any problem.
Thanks,
Sunil
Adobe Presenter Engg Team

Captivate 4 : How to stream a video with smil file ?

I am trying to stream a video hosted on Highwinds CDN. Highwinds provides a web link for every uploaded flv file and does not accept calling the video directly with an rtmp link.
I have tried to insert flash video using these settings :
Video Type : Flash Video Streaming Service
URL : http://hwcdn.net/xxxxx/fms/captivate-swf-to-flv-Cam4-5fps.smil
When I press detect size, green circle keeps running and cannot get the dimensions.
Also when I publish the project (AS3 or AS2), video player on the slide does not show up, no video play.
I have been able to stream above file with smil web link using jw player, so there is no problem with the file and streaming service (highwinds).
I guess I am doing something wrong with Captivate 4 or Captivate 4 does not handle smil files ?
What may be a a solution to stream flv video using smil files ?
Regards,
Semih

Hi there
As you have seen, Captivate 4 introduces a total change in functionality with respect to the way the menu works. Now, all you may do is link to different slides. So this means you have to think a bit outside the box.
One way to achieve what you are wanting is to create a slide that has as its only purpose, Opening a URL. You assign this action using a new field in the Slide properties. On Slide Enter. Then you point your TOC entry to this slide. Of course this also means you will need to consider what happens after the slide that opens the URL is visited. So you will need to exercise some creativity here.
Cheers... Rick
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Video files in Captivate 6 externalize when publishing the project. Is there any way to publish an S

Video files in Captivate 6 externalize when publishing the project. Is there any way to publish an SWF project with the video files all in one single file?

Rhonda, I used Captivate 6. Create a New Project. Set the project size to the size of your MP4. In my experience, this was 640 v 480 which also happened to fit nicely within my final project.
From the menu, select Video > Insert Video. Choose "Multi-slide Synchronized" and point to the MP4 on your local drive. Select a skin and playbar that you like from Project > Skin Editor. Then publish. In the Publish dialog, choose SWF as your output format option (not HTML5).
This is the SWF that I added to my master project through Insert > Animation.
Hope this helps!

I can help with a buffering problem in a video-based eLearning..

Hello,
I hope I can give a little back here for once. : ) I have a video-based eLearning that is hosted on a LMS that has been giving the users with low bandwidth a lot of problems. I was doing some testing with Chrome Dev Tools today, and I think I find some info that could be of use to some people. The eLearning is hosted on Moodle.
Here is what I found :
Contrary to what I believed, the Chrome browser (and it is probably the same with other browsers) will not download all of the files, or at least not all of the video files in a SCORM packet without the user first interacting with that video in some way. As you see in the graphic, I first arrived at the intro video shortly before 2.5 minutes, and only then did the browser begin downloading this video.
At about three minutes, see red line, I used the forward button to jump to the next video, and because the browser was not yet finished downloading the intro video, it was downloading two simultaneously. This is when I started experiencing a buffering issue.
A few seconds later, I used the slider in the progress bar to move to the 4th video, see blue bar, which "set off" the third video as well. At this point my browser was trying to download four videos at once, which caused major buffering issues.
This means, however, that jumping around an eLearning with several videos in it, even using the TOC or forward and backward buttons will cause all of the videos you "touch" to begin downloading, and if you have low bandwidth, they can be downloading simultaneously for a long time.
Possible solution --> Allow navigation only with with TOC and make it so the user can only go to the next slide/video after he has finished viewing the current one, ensuring,that only one video will be downloaded at once. (Needs to be tested).
Anyway, I hope this has provided some insight to those experiencing problems similar to this!

Under the advanced tab in the button inspector you can set it to activate your subtitle stream.

FLV videos not playing correctly in Captivate 6

I am running into an issue where my FLV video is not playing correctly when my Captivate project is exported out and saved to the web. The FLV video is about 20 mins long (~100 MB) and it is being streamed from Kaltura. The FLV video is inputted into the Captivate project as a multi-slide synchronized video across 27 slides. The slides themselves are imported from Powerpoint. The problem that we are running into is that the Captivate project and the FLV video play correctly when viewed with decent bandwidth, but they do not appear to play correctly for users with slower bandwidth. However, if a user views the videos independently of Captivate, they can view the videos correctly, even at slower bandwidth. I have tried hosting the Captivate files on several different webservers, including an LMS. But the issue continues and I'm searching for any type of answers that might help.
Thanks for reading and any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated.
Nathan

Nathan,
Your welcome, if that is the case, then can you try and insert the MultiSlide Video, you can insert the streaming video URL.
You can add the server to you computer as network Drive and then browser to that location, once you do that, the options to add the Video as Streaming can be chose and your Vidoe would remain insync with main playbar, users can play and pause content that way.
See if this can be implemented at your end.
Thanks,
Anjaneai

Disappearing files in Captivate 5.5

Hi,
Has anyone else experienced the problem of dissappearing files in Captivate 5.5? What's your workaround?
I have lost weeks of created work, before my IT dept contacted Abobe and said it was a known bug! It didn't help that my IT dept were then advised to delete all my files!!!
If I didn't laugh, I'd cry.Trying to be ever so patient...but I've already missed my deadlines because of this, clients waiting, and meanwhile, I'm looking like the bad guy. Great

I can understand that this has been a frustrating time for you, and I am not trying to blame anyone. I just don't like seeing Adobe or Captivate get the blame for something that may simply not be their fault either.
Captivate was designed to work a certain way and lately corporate IT departments have been radically altering the landscape using virtual servers, cloud-based storage, and more. As a result, Captivate users are getting caught in the crossfire.
If you go to your Preferences > Global > General > Default Locations and see anything other than a drive on your own PC listed in the fields there, you are going to be taking a huge risk...as you've found.
When Captivate is installed properly, with all required Admin permissions, default locations local to the PC, and patches up to date, it's actually a very rock solid app in my experience. Break these rules and it will bring you grief.

IMPORTING FLASH FILE IN CAPTIVATE

Hi!
I have an interactive training module created with Flash. It has buttons, videos, and quizzes.
Now, to make it compatible with SCORM. I was advised to use Captivate.
Is it possible to export the whole flash file in Captivate? Please help.
Thank you very much!

If this was all developed in Flash then the best bet is to use the Pipwerks SCORM wrapper to make your Flash file compatible.
More info here: http://pipwerks.com/
You may be able to insert your Flash file as an animation into Captivate, but this won't make it SCORM compatible. You might be able to recode the Flash file as an interactive widget and make it have a Success result when the user passes the module. Then when you insert it into Captivate you can set the interactive widget to have a score.
More information about coding widgets can be found here:
http://www.infosemantics.com.au/widgetfactory/info

Control volume for an embedded swf file in Captivate 5

Hello everyone -
I have just searched the forum but cannot find anything on controlling the volume for an embedded swf within Captivate 5. The cap 5 palyback controls will not be used. Is there a way to control the volume ? I found info for AS 2 bur not as 3.0
Thanks much
Rick

I tried this as a solution:
I imported the .swf file to Captivate. I tried to then publish the file as as .FL4, to then reimport into Captivate.
That should give me the option to control the entire movie (sound and video) using Captivate playbar.
BUT, when i try to publish as .FL4, only the sound published, not the video.
Any suggestions?
(i have searched this site and the web in detail and have not fouind a solution),
tallis lockos

MPEG-2 Output audio & video in ONE File

I have a lot of videos to batch in MPEG-2 and I need the output to be ONE .M2V file with audio in it. I know that I can do this with Quicktime Pro but that requires me to do this one video at a time. My Compressor presets are great but the output is a M2V file and a separate AIFF file.
Is there any preset setting in Compressor where the MPEG-2 file includes both audio and video in same file?

OOHH.. you need a transport stream?
and since you did mention broadcasting, it makes sense now.
i use the optibase encoder to create elementary .m2v and .ac3 files, then i create a .cfg file and i use manzanitas multiplexer (sp).
but if you dont have that, you can also use MPEG Streamclip to export to your transport file.
as far as creating transport streams on compressor, unless someone knows otherwise, the answer would be no.
but do check out the above app i suggest. it works, but not as good as the multiplexer, but it IS free
Mikey
rereading your post, i see you are asking about a batch transport encoder. the closest i can think of is the above mentioned app by manzanita.
here is the link:
http://www.lilapple.com/mp2tsme.html
it is both a gui based app, but is more powerful (IMHO) command line.
the gui does have a batch option, but you can just as fast write the command syntax.
it works wonders for me! also, it has a trial version, check it out!
Mikey
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Audio stuttering in generated MP4 file from Captivate 6

I'm using Captivate 6.0.1.240 on a Windows 7 machine. I opened a project that I created in Captivate 5.5 and published the project to an MP4 file. This project is straightforward: I captured video, imported audio into the captured file, and then edited the file so the video and audio match up.
The problem is that I get audio stuttering in the generated MP4 file. This problem doesn't occur when I preview the file within Captivate or when I generate an SWF file. I've implemented the potential solutions in this forum but so far nothing has worked. Since I'm viewing the MP4 file on my hard drive, bandwidth isn't an issue, either.
My project is for an online course for RoboHelp, so I would prefer to use Adobe technologies to create the course. However, I can't do that if Captivate won't generate working MP4 files. I would be happy to share the output file so you can see what's happening. If you need any other information to solve this problem, please let me know.

Hi, Anjaneai. The size of the generated MP4 file using the default settings is 115MB. However, as I said in my original message, I'm generating this file on my own hard drive so there aren't any bandwidth issues. I have noticed that the time it takes to generate the MP4 file takes significantly longer than the time Captivate originally estimates. For example, Captivate says the project file will take a little over 3 minutes to convert, but the actual time was a little less than one hour. I'm not sure if that's due to the fact that I was running Firefox and the associated Flash plugin at the same time.
The audio is a separate object on the timeline. I simply added the audio within the Properties tab.
I'm not sure what smaller resolution I should try. Please send a suggested setting (perhaps the lowest one?) and I'll regenerate it to see if that works.
Thanks,
Eric Butow

Embedded file in Captivate?

Is there possible to apply an embedded file in Captivate or apply a video from youtube/or from another website into Captivate.
There is another possiblities like a button to open an URL but i want it to open with a NEW WINDOW?

Hello again
Look more closely at the image I added. Pay attention to the bottom option titled: Continue Playing the Project
My guess is that you need to clear the check mark so the project timeline doesn't resume and it stays put. This should keep the project from "fading out".
So re-visit the option and see if you need to take that step. If so, there's your answer. Either way, post back and let us know the outcome!
Cheers... Rick
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Video Captions: .srt file?

Slide video can have captions, but it looks like they must be manually added row by row.
Does anyone know if video captions can be accessed through an .srt file? That's a standard format for subtitles.
Thanks,
Christine

To my knowledge there is no compatibility with .srt files in Captivate. It allows Closed Captioning subtitles to be added to a slide by inserting Slide Notes, selecting Closed Captioning, and then timing the lines of text in the CC to coincide with the words in the voiceover. I've always found this to work quite well.

Video Based AE files in Captivate 5.5

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