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July 30, 2021
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ARE YOU INCORPORATING THE CREATIVE CLOUD with ADOBE CAPTIVATE?

  • July 30, 2021
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Hello ALL!

Being that Captivate is a Multimedia application combining text, images, graphics, illustrations, video, animation, audio, and interactivity - I was wondering HOW YOU USE the Adobe Creative Cloud in YOUR Captivate Projects?

 

What are you some Hacks that help with your workflow, productivity, or to spice up your eLearning Projects?  

 

This is what I will be Speaking about at Adobe eLearning World 2021 and I wanted to see

HOW YOU ARE Incorporating the Adobe Creative Cloud applications with your eLearning Projects.

 

Do you import images with Adobe Stock?

Are you spicing up your font choices with Adobe Fonts?
Do you enhance your images in Adobe Photoshop?

Do you imprive your audio with Adobe Audition?

Do you add Illustrations or Animation with Adobe Illustrator or Adobe Animate?

Do you edit your video or add lower thirds with Adobe Premiere?

Do you roundtrip edit with Audition, Photoshop, or Adobe Illustrator?

Are you adding animated Characters with Adobe Character Animator?

 

HOW ARE YOU USING THE ADOBE CREATIVE CLOUD???? Any tips, tricks hacks??

 

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    RodWard
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    RodWardCommunity Expert
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    July 31, 2021

    In order of most common to least common, my use of Creative Cloud apps in my Captivate e-learning includes the following:

    • Photoshop to resize images to the correct dimensions BEFORE inserting into Captivate. then Photoshop round-tripping if an inserted image still requires some modification.
    • I make extensive use of Adobe Animate to create OAM animations that are then inserted into Captivate CPTX projects to achieve results that are simply impossible with Captivate's default animations or effects.  I would love to see Animate able to roundtrip these OAM files one day.
    • Audition comes in handy sometimes for audio editing when I need to add sound effects. I usually find Captivate's recording and editing capabilities quite adequate for most situations. Final audio quality enhancement can often cause you more problems in the long run if you ever need to insert new content because it might be difficult or even impossible to match the results perfectly.

     

    As for the other apps:

    • Adobe Illustrator doesn't get used by me because I prefer to use Adobe Animate if I ever need to create vector graphics.  This is not because I think Illustrator is inferior; just that I am more familiar with Animate and find it faster to create with.
    • My client projects do not usually include video due to problems it causes with soaking up their limited bandwidth.  So Premer doesn't usually come into play for me.
    • I also would love to see Character Animator one day able to create HTML5 animations rather than just video.  If it could even be used to create content directly with Adobe Animate, that would be a potential boon for e-learning animation.  But currently the thinking at Adobe doesn't seem to see that the two apps are all about animation and should be working together.  Quite sad really.

     

    Hope this helps

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      August 2, 2021

      Hi Rod!

      Thanks for chiming in! Yes I am planning on showing all this at eLearning World... great that you use Photoshop.... I will also show how you can import the actual PSD which saves a few steps in having to save out and optimize each file.

      And if you buy images from Adobe stock they will all need to be resized, optmized, possibly color corrected to your liking... and if you name your layers correctly you can simply "Generate Assets" just by clcking save, which then exports all your layers, optimized and named!

       

      Audition is good to use not only to optimize or correct audio issues, but to edit and adjust the volume so everything in your project has the same levels. I also use Animate more then Illustrator, and with OAM you can only update the file, Illustrator can round-trip.

       

      Character Animator to HTML5 export is an interesting concept. I was just hoping Captivate would allow dynamic linking like that of Premiere and After Effects, or at least would allow a WebM to be imported. And of course CC Libraries should be accessible within Captivate! I plan on showing how you can export Character Animator to images, create a GIF and then import a wave file..... not perfect.... but does add a little entertainment and flavor!

       

      Thanks again for being part of the conversation!

      Best,

      mark

      headTrix, Inc. | Adobe Certified Training & Consulting
      Lilybiri
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      August 3, 2021

      Short summary:

      • Capture (phone and iPad) is about the only app I use in combination with Captivate. I have tried most apps but this one is useful for CP and is available also for Android!!!
      • Adobe fonts
      • Adobe Stock images, bitmap and vector
      • Photoshop (I use PS since over 25 years, and have been teaching it for decades as well): for different  goals (have several blog posts about roundtripping with Captivate):
        1. For the excellent roundtripping with Captivate, mainly by importing PSD files. It helps structuring the Library, the possibility to import comps is great for localisation and other reasons. See
        http://blog.lilybiri.com/roundtripping-with-adobe-photoshop-in-2020
        2. I create simple animated GIFs in PS
        3. To edit short video clips I use PS
        4. Using Generate Assets of course, especially when using stock images
        5. As intermediate application to access my CC Libraries
        6. Although overkill, to edit size of bitmap images. Since Adobe killed Fireworks...
      • Audition: I prefer recording VO in Audition over Captivate. I hope for an improvement in the roundtripping which was much more powerful when SWF output was reigning. Quality requirement for audio (more than for images) is at the base of my preference for Audition.
      • Illustrator has become another favourite since some years. It is my second intermediate application to access CC Libraries. It is the Export Assets functionality which is so useful when starting with Stock images, both for SVGs and PNGs. The roundtripping with Captivate needs to be improved urgently, wished it was on the same level as PS-CP
      • Animate for more complicated animations, but I confess to still use the buried Edge Animate as well, which (like Fireworks for images) was much more suitable for simple animations. Animate is bit overkill since to have at least some collaboration with Captivate you need (Rod's) external widgets or programming with JS.
      • Premiere Pro once in a while for video editing, although rarely for lower thirds. I sincerely regret that raw cpvc files cannot be directly edited in PP...
      • Same for AE (occasionally).

      I would love to use Character Animator but - same as Rod - as long as it only give output to video the synchronisation is way too cumbersome. It remains in the passive video sphere, not for interactive use.

      In the past when preparing learning assets in college, I used the combination InDesign-Captivate a lot. But InDesign has cut all possibilities to integrate interactive Captivate tutorials.  Same with Acrobat Pro, loss of interactive pdf is a real loss.

      Wondering when 3D objects will be used in Captivate because that would open a new world..

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