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Martyr225
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May 20, 2015
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Bad practice to put video clips in Captivate?

  • May 20, 2015
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I'm creating a lesson on how to solder.  On each slide I have a small video clip showing something about soldering with audio and bulleted text.  When I play it on my laptop it comes out fine.  I upload it to Blackboard (our LMS) and when I watch it on our school PCs the audio and text are fine, but the video freezes within 1 second.  We have very good LAN speeds and decent PC in the classroom.  Should I not try to put video clips in a Captivate lesson?.  I've noticed that no Captivate examples use video clips. 

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    Correct answer RodWard

    Check with the system administrator that controls the server on which your LMS sits. Perhaps there is some kind of filtering on video files or the mimetype of your video is not allowed (though that would normally prevent anything from appearing).

    Upload your content to SCORM Cloud and test it from there.  If the video then works, your issue is with your own LMS server, not the Captivate lesson.

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    RajeevAdobe
    Adobe Employee
    RajeevAdobe
    Adobe Employee
    May 20, 2015

    You can add several types of video into a Captivate project, including AVI, MOV, and Flash Video (FLV or F4V). To insert a video, open or create a Captivate project and then choose Video > Insert Video to open the Insert Video dialog box. You have two choices when inserting video: Event Video (typically video that is expected to play on only one slide) or Multi-Slide Synchronized Video (video that is expected to play across multiple slides).

    Did you check it with any other LMS ?

    Is it playing fine on your local machine before uploading the content to your LMS.


    Regards,

    Rajeev.

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    Martyr225Author
    Inspiring
    May 20, 2015

    Hi Rajeev,

    The problem isn't putting the videos into Captivate, that works fine.  Its when I view the lesson through the internet, the video freezes almost immediately.  My question is: is it a bad practice to try and put video clips into a Captivate lesson?  I have 6 slides with video clips, with times of 16, 10, 22, 108,104,114 secs respectively  Is that too much video to put into a Captivate lesson if people are going to watch it over the internet?  If so, what should an ideal video clip or total video time be?

    Thanks,

    Marty

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    Alice Acker
    Inspiring
    May 20, 2015

    Which video format do you use?

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