Cannot post interactive video to website and maintain the interactions.
I need to publish an interactive Adobe Captivate 2019 video with closed captions to a web server and am not finding a good solution. This is an older server and not an LMS. When I publish as .mp4, the Closed Captions are not displayed and the interactions are lost, plus it takes a long time to download from the server. I’ve tried publishing in html, and forgive me if this is a very basic question, but the html output includes many files, and I’m unsure about what to post on the server. Do I create a folder and add all the files to it? What would the equivalent of an .exe be? The index file?
There must be a way to do this, but I’ve spent a lot of time researching it and have yet to find a solution. If anyone can help me with this, I’d sure be grateful.
Following this as I will need to do this for a uni course and want to make sure I know how to do this for my final project!
Reading through these comments I’m learning Paul and Lieve are the superstars of these forums.
I would publish it to HTML5. As you’ve seen this will produce a folder with other folders and individual files. You would launch the course using a link to the Index.html file. The rest of the files support your project. Here is a video I did some time ago about publish for distribution on the web.
I know you may be using a different web server but here is my process for uploading to an Amazon Web Server using their AWS S3 service. The specifics may be different, but the overarching principles should be the same.
Just a short comment about your mixing up versions. It is confusing, but what is called ‘CP2019’ covers up more than one version. The present version is 11.5.5 – which is probably your version as well, but there were also several versions under 11.0. Captivate 9 is much older.
I will try to explain what you need to do and why. A Captivate project published to MP4 has not much sense because, as you already figured out, you will lose all interactivity and more. When you publish to HTML5 you create sort of a rather complicated website. If you ever did see the raw version of a website, you’ll understand that it has many folders and files. You need to upload the whole published folder (which will be named as you specified in the Publish dialog box) to the webserver. You can use whatever uploading tool you want, I am using Filezilla. Once it is uploaded you can launch the project like a website: using the index.html file which is included in the root of the folder. You have to make sure that it is not a SCO, because in that case you would need a real LMS. A SCO has Quiz Reporting set up.
One warning, since you mentioned that it is an older webserver. It will need to support the JSON protocol. As for the browser to be used, any modern browser will do but avoid older versions of IE which are very limited for HTML5 support.
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