Advice on importing video to Captivate 3

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February 11, 2009
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Hello,

I have been asked to work on a Captivate project that essentially is an audio or video intro + bullet points from PowerPoint +possible branching + quiz questions at end. By the way there will not be any PC screen casts in this at all.

My questions are about the audio or video introduction. We want to have a top person in the company introduce the Captivate project -- why it is important to watch the following training. We could either have a) a photo of the person with audio or b) a video of the person. The project would be accessed by internal staff via our intranet/network.

1. What sort of impact on file size and speed issues would a video have?
2. Is there a time limit for the video, for example anything under 2 minutes should be ok, anything above could cause problems.
3. What sort of format should the video be in for importing into Captivate?
4. Do I need any additional software for converting the video from its native format?
5. Are there any other tips to keep in mind when working with video and Captivate?

Thanks in advance.

Rose

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Rose,

FLV is definitely the format to place in your Captivate project. Keep in mind, however, that your initial format should be something like WMV or MPEG. This is because FLV is not as readily accepted going into editing. Once you have edited it with a green screen a.k.a "keying", you can then save it as an FLV file for Captivate.

Darin

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Thanks Rick for your quick reply and the link to John Daigle's site. Converting to FLV sounds like the way to go.

My client thought the intro would be 60-90 seconds, so I might try and get some random footage and test it out before filming the person who is introducing the training.

Cheers, Rsoe

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Hi Rose

Hopefully you will hear from someone more video savvy than me. But I'm happy to share my own observations and experiences.

I conduct Captivate classes all the time. One small part of the class involves inserting Video on a page. The format that we import is .FLV. The video is of a young lady walking across the screen, pausing and looking at the camera, then saying Welcome to today's training presentation. She then turns and walks off the screen.

This video was created in a manner where the background is transparent. I have no clue how it was created other than to say that it was probably done using a "green screen" (sometimes the screen is blue) so that the background could be isolated and rendered transparent. You would use other tools for that.

You may wish to peruse fellow Adobe Community Expert and Adobe Certified Instructor John Daigle's Show Me the Demo site at http://www.showmethedemo.com/. John has some tips there for dealing with video.

Because the file remains outside of Captivate and is presented when it is needed, I'm unaware of any file size restrictions or limitations. But just because I'm unaware of them doesn't mean they don't exist. Surely there is some restriction, be it hardware, bandwidth or whatever.

Hopefully this was somewhat useful to you and even MORE hopefully, I hope others pipe in with other insight.

Sincerely... Rick

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