Learning to use Captivate and seeking help uploading various assets like Lottie Animations and icons. I also need to customize slide templates to stay on brand and am looking for best practices.
Hi,
I’m learning Captivate for the first time and using the all-new Captivate interface. I need clarification on uploading different Assets like Lottie Animations, on-brand icons, images, and more.
Adobe’s out-of-the-box options need to be expanded, and I prefer using Canva for rapid content creation. I need the flexibility to add my content, given that I’m developing training modules for the cannabis sector. Adobe doesn’t have a lot of stock images or videos for that industry, and I’m already paying for Canva out of my own pocket.
I’m also looking for how to customize my own slide templates for reuse in case I find a template with slides I like that need to be modified to stay on brand. I’m looking for best practices on this and not workarounds if they are available.
Thanks for your help in advance.
Kevin
In its present state the new version of Captivate has limitations for customisation. That is one of the reasons why you are entitled to use Captivate Classic on the same license for free. That version allows all the customisation you want, including creating libraries which can be opened in any project, themes which are more powerful because they include master slides and object style while the Theme in version 12 is more limited. To embed animations (HTML preferred, but animated GIFs are possible) no problem neither in Captivate Classic.
Due mainly to its focus on responsive projects by using canned slide templates and blocks, at this moment it is difficult to create slide templates, to customize blocks. One of my requests on the uservoice platform is to be able to import OAMs and embed Web objects (both possible in Captivate Classic). To replace a placeholder by one of your images/videos no problem: you can always choose between Assets (the included library) and System (to insert your assets).
I mostly blog about workarounds to circumvent limitations because as long-time user I want to help my peers to be able to transfer their experience.
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