NotificationSome captions and parts of images might have a dark background when published in CP5 with slide quality set as JPEG. The same project seems to work fine when published with CP4 with the same setting. This is because the mechanism to publish images has changed significantly from CP4 to CP5. In this two part blog series we look at information that you can use in Adobe Captivate 5 to parallel decide the quality of an image and the SWF […]
It is very common to have many assets or resources, for example, audios, videos, SWFs, and images in Captivate projects. While such resources enhance your projects and make them effective, they also introduce more disk I/O. Because of this additional disk I/O, the performance of Captivate may get affected and even simple operations like opening and saving projects may take longer time. ‘Project Cache’ in Adobe Captivate 5 is an attempt to address this performance issue by reducing the disk […]
Got 4 minutes to spare. I’ve uploaded a short and to the point video overview of Text-To-Speech using Adobe Captivate 5. It includes a demo of the new French, German & British English voices as well as a step by step walk through of the simple process of adding TTS elements to your Captivate projects. One of the most exciting aspects of Captivate 5’s TTS handling is the support for non-included voices. We know that people are trying to localize […]
People often ask me about Captivate file sizes and how to optimize the learner experience accessing online content. The crux of the question of course is how can i make playback start right away and keep size small enough that it downloads smoothly on the learners’ computer. It’s actually a lot easier than you might think. I’ve posted a short video below (available along with many others on YouTube’s Adobe eLearning Channel as well) that demonstrates how I easily shrunk […]
An overview of the new features in Adobe eLearning Suite 2 and Adobe Captivate 5 for trainers, educators and eLearning professionals.
…even if you’ve used Captivate in previous versions – even dating back a long long way, you’ll know immediately where you are and what you are doing.
Most elearning authoring processes involve multiple stakeholders- across departments and organizations. It also involves multiple back-and-forth’s in getting feedback and signoffs on the storyboards and prototypes; coordinating across different stakeholders contributing assets like graphics and animations that eventually get aggregated in your Captivate project. And from what we’ve heard, majority of this still happens via email and conference calls, and this process is the single most time consuming task in the authoring process. This process can also be the single […]
Early last month, Patti Shank did a detailed review of Captivate 4 on TrainingMediaReview. She highlights something that we’ve been hearing from a lot of the forward looking learning departments- ‘The workflow process for learning content creation is changing.’ Patti writes… “Much of the content that we previously needed developers to produce can now be produced by our instructional designers or clients’ training staff and SMEs. Storyboards (if used) are no longer cumbersome Word or Excel tables describing screen content, […]
Captivate 4 has several avenues for possible extensions- especially given the new widgets and variables features. Captivate, like many of the other Adobe products, has an exchange where third parties can share product extensions and other assets that the larger Captivate community might find useful. While the exchange has been dormant for a while, a new set of content has been introduced on exchange this month. The new content on exchange ranges from widgets to stock animations- each of which […]
RJ, our eLearning evangelist (and twitter maniac :-)) will be doing a webinar on the benefits of Adobe eLearning suite for Adobe Captivate users. The session is scheduled for 9/30/2009, 10am Pacific Time, and will run 90 minutes. Please follow this link to register for this webinar. In this session you will learn about: Using Adobe Soundbooth for recording and editing pristine audio for inclusion in Adobe Captivate projects Leveraging the power of Adobe Flash for supplementing Adobe Captivate projects […]
Usecase: Say you need to administer a quiz, where the learner has to answer all the questions in the quiz in sequence (he is not provided the option to skip). Also, at the end of the quiz, he should be provided an option to review the quiz. To achieve this, you would go to project>skin editor and uncheck ‘show playback control’. But the user is still presented with the ‘skip’ button during the Quiz. Now, if you decide to uncheck […]
RJ, our eLearning evangelist, will be conducting a live eLearning session on ‘Adobe Captivate 4 for new users’. This is specifically designed for Captivate novices. Here you will acquire the knowledge you need for getting started using Adobe Captivate 4. In this 90 minute interactive session, you will learn about the different types of eLearning projects you can create in the product, including software simulations, scenario-based training, quizzes and others. RJ’s sessions are always packed with information and very interactive; […]
