backgrounds are being recording using swf and even though I publish to HTML5 those pages stay as swf and they are not visible in the browsers
Hi, there are certain motions I’m recording in my software and it will convert the background to swf. so when it gets online, you don’t see it at all. How do I get around this? Flash is done–why is it recording actions in swf??
Thank you, Claudine
Right, it will play on my local but not on our company secured site.
Can you tak with the IT people responsible for that site? I am just trying to help with Captivate but that is not where the problem resides.
Back to your question: what is that ‘website’? You say it is playing fine after publishing when looking locally, means that the problems have to be searched for in that ‘website’.
See that I didin’t answer ‘why is it still recording in SWF’? Since it is perfectly possible to convert a swf to a mp4 with converting applications. Same is happening with the learning interactions. They were programmed as SWF’s but do play in HTML output.
But I have a software sim that is about 25 minutes long. Most of it is fine but a few pages recorded in swf because I did a drag and drop. I tried a regular recording and that’s not displaying properly in the browser window either.
BTW: it is Flash Player who will disappear, the Flash authoring environment (now renamed Animate CC) is and will be very much alive, still the foundation of the majority of games.
My point was related to browsers–not gaming. Flash is no longer supported in browser windows.
When you publish the Captivate file, the FMR (Full Motion Recording) slides will be converted to MP4. Not always working very nicely.
If your goal is an interactive simulation (training/assessment), personally I prefer to stop the software sim when I cannot avoid a FMR slide and I insert a CPVC slide. That slide is created using the Video Demo feature which always results in a (better quality) MP4 directly, no conversion needed. After the CPVC side I continue the software sim. Bit cumbersome, wished it was embedded.
If you only want a demo sim I recommend to switch immediately to Video Demo for the whole video, instead of using the software sim feature.
I think this is what I did yesterday. I stopped the software sim and switched to recording option (if that’s what you’re saying above. I’m not sure what CPVC slide is short for…). I just published it. It works fine locally but not on the website which is what I need.
CPVC is the extension used for Video Demo files. Since slides added using the big button Slides, Video Demo is really a cpvc slide because it is keeping its editing functionality with the video demo editor, I often refer to them that way. The term appears in the Slides menu, which you can use if you want to insert an existing cpv file as slide. That is what you would have to do to replace an existing FMR slide by a video demo slide. Sorry for that confusion.
No problem. That’s what I did, I replaced those FMR slides with the video demo slides. Still not showing up in the browser.
You said it plays fine locally. I thought that was after publishing and using the localhost. In that case you also use a browser as well. Which browser did you use? Did I understand well that it is not playing when uploaded, but plays from localhost?
Very information exchange. Thank you for sharing.
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