Working with Captivate 1 & 2

Question

Hi, this is really a question for Captiv8r, but i'm keeping
it out in the open so as to perhaps help others with the same or
similar problems.
We have recently purchased several licences of Captivate 2
for our Vista production systems. However Captivate 2 does not work
as it should on Vista at this time and as such we are looking at
other options in order to allow us to continue with our projects.
We are looking at the option of running Captivate 1 alongside
Captivate 2, but are not sure if this is a good option to progress
with. What we are thinking of doing is running Captivate 1, doing
the training simulation captures and then converting the captures
to version 2. However, Captivate 2 has some great features and we
are wondering if we might be losing out on any if we do it this
way. So basically, could you tell us what the best approach would
be, what we may lose by doing it this way, what extra steps we
might need to take etc etc?? on the face of it, from just a few
test runs, it seems straight forward, basically setting captivate 1
to training simulation, capturing the session and then opening up
and converting the project in captivate 2, making any final
adjustments as necessary. Is this a good approach? and more
importantly, will we lose anything?
(having a quick glance at the Captivate 2 features on the
adobe site, it would appear that the majority of the new features
take effect after the capturing has been done, ie adding flash
video, timeline effects etc. Can you clarify?)
Thank you.

Answer 1

quote:
(having a quick glance at the Captivate 2 features on the
adobe site, it would appear that the majority of the new features
take effect after the capturing has been done, ie adding flash
video, timeline effects etc. Can you clarify?)
Even though I am not Captiv8r I know that Rick
won't mind if I add one more to his list.
4. In Adobe Captivate 2, there isn't really any limit on how
much full motion recording you capture. It is now really up to the
user and the performance of your system. If you have a very long
amount of full motion recording the footage is simply split into
multiple slides. By Default Full Motion Recording mode is
automatically triggered when you perform a drag, drag and drop or
use your mouse wheel to scroll as you would expect these options
can be turned off via the Recording Options dialog box (Project
> Recording options...)
You can manually turn on Full Motion Recording mode by
pressing F9 on your keyboard and F10 to switch back to Captivate's
default capturing mode.
Personally, I would strongly suggest that wherever possible
you try and avoid using full motion recording, since this will
increase the overall size of your Captivate 2 projects. But it is a
new feature in Adobe Captivate 2 so there you go.
quote:
We have recently purchased several licences of Captivate 2
for our Vista production systems. However Captivate 2 does not work
as it should on Vista at this time and as such we are looking at
other options in order to allow us to continue with our projects.
. As I have mentioned in a previous post, Adobe
Captivate 2 has been tested with Vista, however Vista is still
prelease software, a detailed list of the sort of problems you are
encountering and screen shots of any error messagse you are
encountering would be extremely useful.
You can send screen shots to the web address I have listed
below -
http://dropbox.yousendit.com/macrofireball
Regards,
Mark