User has reported a CPTX file size increase issue in Captivate-5. We have identified the issue and have a easy workaround for the problem. Issue will be fixed in the next release of Captivate.
Adobe Captivate 5 contains number of new workflows which will enhance your productivity of using Captivate and make the integration between different ELS applications much better. One of such enhancement is “Edit With Soundbooth” in which author can take audio content from Captivate to Soundbooth, modify audio by applying filters and get the changes into Captivate with a single click. “Edit With Soundbooth” feature is available for slide audio, object audio or audio present in library. It is most useful for […]
Prior to Adobe Captivate 5, content developers or authors had very little control over the volume of audio while recording narration in a project. Adobe Captivate used to calibrate your audio input automatically — you would not know how the audio sounds until completing the recording and listening to it. Manual calibration in Adobe Captivate 5 lets you decide the audio input levels before recording. Using this feature, you can record a sample voice, listen to the recorded voice, and […]
Audio makes your elearning content more engaging and useful to learners. You can add audio to your Adobe Captivate project either by recording yours or somebody else’s voice directly or by inserting a previously recorded audio file (.AVI, .WAV). When you add audio to a slide, it appears as a separate ‘element’ in the timeline. You can synchronize the audio with the slide by adjusting its timeline. When you publish the project, Adobe Captivate embeds the audio within the output […]
Audio in Adobe Captivate 5,sound recording Adobe Captivate 5 is released and available in market. Adobe Captivate 5 comes up with great new features which helps improve the usability and productivity of Captivate users. At the same time every existing feature is important too and has been looked into for improvements. One of the main features of any e-learning tool is its AUDIO recording and editing capabilities. This post will introduce you to the new layout of Audio dialogs in […]
Recording narration in Adobe Captivate’s audio record dialog by reading out the slide note text is a common workflow. For this, one would use the slide notes window which is available at the bottom of the ‘Record Audio’ dialog. But usability becomes an issue when your slide notes are too lengthy to fit in the small slide notes compartment provided at the bottom. And yes, as users must have discovered, there is no easy way to resize the window too! […]
A typical scenario for creating an elearning course with Captivate is to create multiple 5-10 min modules of Captivate movies that are integrated using the aggregator or the multi-sco packager or by creating your own navigation shell using Flash Pro. Today, I’ll show you another option that is available for creating a course with multiple modules. The Adobe eLearning Suite integrates Adobe Captivate and Adobe Acrobat Pro to help you create a PDF portfolio containing your Captivate movies, complete with […]
Adobe Captivate 4 patch update is already live and many must have already installed it. Some customers faced problems installing the update from the Adobe Updater due to security reasons, firewalls set in their organizations. Now Adobe Captivate 4 patch update is also available on web and can be downloaded from the following link – http://www.adobe.com/support/captivate/downloads.html You just need to download the patch ZIP file, unzip it and run the ‘setup.exe’. To know more about the issues resolved in patch […]
Adobe Soundbooth and Adobe Captivate are tightly integrated in the new Adobe eLearning Suite. We already know that Captivate audio can be edited using Adobe Soundbooth but now it comes with new enhanced functionality. Now developers can actually edit multiple audio files inside Soundbooth and bring all the changes inside Captivate with just one click. Consider a user working on a 10 slide Captivate project. He has three audio files in library which he uses on slide 3, 4 and […]
Adobe Captivate 4 patch update Adobe Captivate 4 patch is now LIVE! Today we released a patch for Adobe Captivate 4 patch. The key driver for this patch was the degradation in audio quality as reported by some of our customers. This update fixes several elements that were causing issues in the audio workflow. It also includes fixes for some other niggling concerns that were reported/ discovered post launch. The full details are below. Do note that the Captivate 4 […]
Adobe Captivate 4,Captivate library Captivate accepts high quality images, animations, FLVs, audio files etc. Content generation is an iterative process and hence content developers use these resources across different sections of their project, and even across multiple projects. Captivate keeps track of all your resources to allow you to use it the next time. All these resources are placed in the "Captivate Library". Let’s look at this basic but very powerful functionality which Adobe Captivate provides. So, where is this […]
E-Learning,eLearning Suite,CourseBuilder,Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 Extension New CourseBuilder Features in Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 The CourseBuilder extension for Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 allows users to create Web-based learning interactions in a visual authoring environment. The CourseBuilder extension includes a set of easy to use templates and tools that simplify and accelerate the development of online learning content. Learning interactions created with the extension are 100% Web-native, enabling cross-platform and cross-browser delivery without plug-ins or applets. The new CourseBuilder that ships with […]
