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Can Captivate videos be prompted to start playing at points other than the beginning?

Forum|Forum|15 years ago
September 21, 2010
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It is obviously natural for my Captivate videos to open and start playing from the beginning when a user clicks on a link to one of them. However, I would like to have various links throughout my site that would jump to different parts of the same video (ex. one link would open the video at the beginning, another link would begin playing the video from the 3rd slide onward, and another link would open the video at the 6th slide and play from that point, etc.).

Is there a way to accomplish this without breaking my slides out into separate files?

I know I could separate out the slides into separate files and have them jump to eachother so that they appear to play as a single seamless video, but I would prefer to keep them within a single project file if at all possible.

I am using Captivate 5 (but could use Captivate 4 if needed). My output is a .SWF file.

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Hi there

I've not tested this in Captivate 5, but I tried in in Captivate 4. See if the thread below helps.

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Cheers... Rick

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Hello!

I'm interested in creating a manual that would have links to a single Captivate video. The links would be (I imagine unique) so that they could open the video at different slides. For example, within the manual there would be a link that would open to slide x, where slide x corresponds with the topic being discussed at that particular section of the manual.

The following thread from '07 says it's a no-go.

http://forums.adobe.com/message/81329#81329

I just want to ensure there's not a work around for this. It would really enhance our entire multimedia project if there were some way to do this. Also, we already have a Table of Contents (TOC) set up in each of our videos. Maybe there's a way we can export the videos so that multiple .swf files are created, like one for each TOC heading.

Essentially, we have MANY complex and lengthy videos, and it's not an option for us to go through and create what I'm sure would end up being hundreds of short videos.

Any ideas!?

Neesa

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Hi there

See if the thread linked below helps.

Click here to view

Cheers... Rick

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I don't know if I understand your post, but you could have a title slide that contains like a "Click here to go to XXXX section." Then have different click boxes/buttons on the screen that would allow the user to jump to a specific section of your project. Set up the click box/button to jump to the specific slide and it should go automatically there.

Or you could use your Table of Contents functionality.

Hope that helps. If I'm not understanding your question correctly, let me know.

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