Mac Users

By using “Device Capture,” Mac users can easily insert iPad and iPhone videos into their Captivate projects. This is a great way to show how responsive courses will look on mobile devices. This quick vlog will show you how….

Software Sim manual recording on Mac not working

Cannot perform manual software simulation screen capture

Mac Newbies: Where to find your custom workspaces and themes

This quick humorous video blog shows you where to find your custom workspaces and themes in a Mac

Slide Notes Basics for Newbies

This quick tutorial will show Newbies what “the blue line” means and what it can do when you are adding, re-ordering, deleting, or editing lines of your slide notes.

I’ve reset my preferences. Where are my custom workspaces? Mac

Saving your custom workspaces before you clear your preferences is easy if you know where to find them in your Mac.

macOS Mojave and Cp 2019

Mac OS Mojave Compatibility with Cp 2019

Another PowerPoint Hack: Using Icons in your Captivate Project

In a few simple steps, you can customize and import PowerPoint icons to use as Smart Shapes and Buttons in your next Captivate project,

Personalizing Adobe Captivate Characters

In this blog, you’ll learn how to make generic characters that come with Captivate into characters that represent your specific company or organization. With some basic photo editing skills and a hack that I’ll show you, it’s easy to get the look you want.

Newbie Quick Captivate Tip: Visiting the VISITED State

New to Captivate? Here’s a quick guide to the VISITED state.

Newbies: More PowerPoint Hacks for Your Cp Project: Using PowerPoint Template Backgrounds in Your Captivate Master Slides

We’re always looking for shortcuts. If there’s a nicely designed template in PowerPoint, you can use its background in your Captivate Master Slide to create a stunning new theme.

“My .exe is different than your .exe,” said Mac to Win.

Why should a Captivate developer worry about .txt? If you are using Closed Captioning in your modules, then you should worry about .txt.  It’s well-documented in the forums that copying and pasting from a .docx into Captivate’s Slide Notes leaves residue formatting that can make your Closed Captioning quite ugly. So where does the Mac .txt vs. Windows .txt conflict play into this? I asked my client to save the narration text from a .docx crosswalk  as a .txt so […]

TTS (Amazon’s “Polly”)

Has anyone had experience using TTS voices generated outside of the NeoSpeech voices that come with Cp?  I am specifically looking at Amazon’s “Polly”.  I suspect I can’t edit/generate within Cp, but will have to import .wav files.