Hello community,   I'm looking for a way to quickly and easily create SCORM-compliant, mobile-friendly eBook styled courses.  Clients with very limited budgets and a large amount of content often give us PDF manuals in A4 format and simply want them to be converted into something that is trackable via LMS and mobile-friendly.  They don't need us to redesign the docs.     An eBook, or a mimicry of one, seems to be the way to go, but this is not SCORM-compliant, so then the idea is to SCORM wrap the eBook via Captivate somehow, and publish as HTML.   One possibility is to convert the PDF pages to images and put each one on a slide, but the problem then is one of legibility - how to allow the end-user to zoom in and read the text on what is essentially a portrait oriented a4 page?   So, that's the challenge.  Does anybody have any wild ideas? Is there a web object option for Captivate 9?  Is it HTML compatible?  Is it responsive? By the way, I also tried the image zoom widget, but that seems to be Flash-based.   Thanks in advance for any help!   Paul ... View more

Hi Captivaters! I have a client that wants to combine 20 high quality videos and a series of quiz questions (2 per video) for inhouse training.  The challenge is how to deliver the video?  The course files will be hosted online on our LMS for reporting purposes.  However, I'd like the videos to be on their local network (a central server) to avoid download issues.  Is it possible for an online course to link to locally hosted videos?  And how should I go about setting that up?  Are there likely to be network or flash security issues even though the learners machines have access to the server normally? Thanks for any help! Paul ... View more

Hi Captivate people! I'm using Cp 8.0.1.242 and trying to stream videos from Cloudfront to a Captivate project.  I have done this with FLV before with mixed success - the streaming works, but still poor quality and playback.  The client wants less buffering and better video quality, so I would like to use mp4 with the hopes of seeing a better file size to quality ratio.  Mp4 is also a better format for compatibility across most devices and platforms. Is it possible to stream mp4 videos in Captivate 8?  And, if so, how would you set this up?  If not, what other format would you recommend given my requirements above? Thanks for the help! Paul ... View more

Hi, I've been looking for a way to deliver Vimeo videos to Captivate 8.1 - using YouTube and the YouTube widget is not an option because there isn't enough security for the videos.  Other posts on this forum have suggested embedding the Vimeo videos in a web object, which works nicely.  The only problem is that web objects don't seem to be compatible with the publishing setting for Scalable HTML Content.  The web object doesn't scale with the project and doesn't maintain it's relative position on the slide. I see that other widgets, like the Glossary and YouTube widgets don't have this problem and will happily scale with the project. What makes the web object widget different and is there a way to have it scale with the content? Thanks for the help! Paul ... View more

Hi all! We have built a course in Cp 6 that contains a number of quiz slides. Originally, the project brief did not require the course to be 508 compliant (i.e. accessible to the hearing and visually impaired), so it was never designed for this. However, the client now requires it and obviously some modifications are needed. Closed Captioning and accessibility descriptions per slide or per object are not a problem. It's the quiz questions that seem to be an issue. I've used JAWS screen reader to test the course in IE11 and have found that the quiz buttons in particular are detected as "graphics" rather than "buttons", which means that they can't be selected and the end-user can't submit his/her answer. It's a scenario-based course, so the quizzes are a vital component. On-slide buttons on other non-quiz slides are detected. It's just the quiz slides that seem to be a problem. The quizzes questions are all multiple choice. I've done some research and I'm under the impression that screen readers like JAWS should be able to interact with the quiz buttons. Does anybody any helpful suggestions as to why this isn't working? Thanks Paul ... View more

Hi I've had major issues with the way that Captivate 6 handles videos.  I've been putting it down to bandwidth issues (a symptom of working in the developing world), but I have now discovered that it really is just a problem with Cp6 and one that has cost us months of work.  It seems to have krept in since the upgrade from Cp5.5, which we did when Cp6 was released. I have a Cp5.5 project that I recently brought into Cp6 and republished.  The only change that I made was to fix up the TOC, since Cp6 and Cp5.5 don't seem to use the same format there.  In Cp5.5, the videos were added using Insert > FLV or F4V File option.  They are set to progressivley download with no video skin.  I didn't make any changes to this in Cp6.  There is a standard Twirl.swf preloader on both the Cp5.5 and Cp6 versions.  I've uploaded both to an online server and run them. The videos in the Cp5.5 version start as soon as I get to the relevant slide.  The same video slides in Cp6 are blank and wait until the video loads before playing. To be sure I've also approached the problem from the opposite angle and taken some videos that I'd put into a Cp6 project as Event Videos set to progressively download and inserted them (Insert > FLV or F4V File) into Cp5.5.  In Cp6 these videos have given me non-stop trouble.  In Cp5.5 they start running immediately.  Admittedly, there was a little buffering time in the middle of the first one, but if I skipped ahead to the other videos, each one started playing immediately and ran smoothly right the way through. It seems like Cp5.5 preloads the videos while loading the slides, whereas Cp6 waits to get to the slide with the video on it before starting the download. So, what changed between Cp5.5 and Cp6?  Why is something as fundamental as video playback working perfectly in the older version of Captivate and now broken in the update? Is there a fix for this problem or has it been resolved in Cp7? By the way, I have Windows 7 64-bit, using Cp6 64-bit. Thanks, Paul ... View more

Hi I'd like use something other than the 9 standard video skins that come with Captivate 6 (Halo, Clear and Corona). Is it possible to use a custom video player or at least a different skin for an Event video?  And, if so, does anyone know where I could find a collection of custom skins (free or otherwise)? Thanks Paul ... View more

Hi I've recently bought a Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1" tablet (Android 4.0) and would like to be able to run some of our courses (non-SCORM flash versions) on the tablet.  I have installed Adobe flash player v11 and know that I can run the courses that are online on our LMS, but I'd also like to be able to run some of them offline - i.e. stored in the folders on the tablet's hard drive - for those situations where I don't have access to wifi. When I click on the HTM file in my folders, I'm give the option of opening the file in a text editor or in the Android HTML Viewer.  The former obviously won't help to run the course and the later just shows a blank screen.  Has anybody had some experience with this and could you please suggest how I might be able to demo these courses without Internet? Thanks Paul ... View more

Hi, I'm really hoping someone out there can explain this to me in as simple a way as possible. I have a large project with 10 video files at various points throughout the course.  I've run some tests with the videos set to progressively download, but they're not buffering very well.  The video will pause to download (as expected), but as soon as it plays again it skips ahead to a later point in the video.  The longest video is 2 minutes and I've managed to keep the file sizes around 10 to 20MB. Since the progressive download route is failing dismally, I'm trying to set the videos up for streaming. We already use Amazon S3 and I have now enable Cloudfront as well.  I've set up a dedicated bucket on S3 with some video files in it and edited the ACL accordingly (everyone can "read" the contents).  Then I've created a distribution on Cloudfront. The setup in Captivate for a video looks like this: Video Type: Streaming Video URI: rtmp://xxxxxxxxxx.cloudfront.net/cfx/st Stream Name: mp4:Video 1.f4v Autoplay = Yes Auto Rewind = Yes I've tried using an mp4 video.  I've followed the workaround instructions here: http://blogs.adobe.com/captivate/2011/03/workaround-for-video-streaming-issues-in-captivate.html.  And, I've tried a few variations.  Nothing has worked yet.  If anybody has managed to work with Cloudfront and Cp6 and can provide step by step instructions for making it work, I'd really appreciate it if you could share your wisdom. I wouldn't be surpirsed if I'm missing something obvious - e.g. I'm previewing in a browser (pushing f12 in Captivate) - should that work or should i be publishing and running the course from a server in order for the videos to show up? Thanks in advance. ... View more

Hi, Hopefully someone can help me with this... I would like to embed a swf (call it swf 1) within my captivate 5.5 project (swf 2), but the catch is that swf 1 is interactive.  More specifically there are pause points within the course where learners need to play around with roll-overs or other features before clicking a button to resume.  There are a number of swfs going into swf 2, but I thought it best to focus on one for now. The idea is to publish the main project (swf 2) with a skin and TOC and to be able to control progress all progress, including the progress within swf 1, using the playbar from swf 2 - i.e. if I click on the playbar at a certain point, it should take me to that point even if it is half way through swf 1. I know how to add an animation to a slide and synchronise it with the project so that I can get that kind of playbar functionality.  However, this only works if swf 1 plays from end to end without any interactivity.  It doesn't seem to work when swf 1 pauses in the middle (in fact swf 1 barely even starts, before it vanishes again, leaving me watching the background of the slide that it was on).  Alternatively, if I don't synchronise it, then the main project will continue on to the next slide regardless of whether swf 2 has finished or not. So, the question is, how can I insert an interactive swf into the main project, synchronise it and retain the interactivity?  Any helpful, not too technical suggestions? Thanks. ... View more