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Captivate 10 Release Date

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December 13, 2016
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Anyone know when 10 will be released?

Any list of definite features? improvements?

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Correct answer Paul Wilson CTDP

To my knowledge, there is no official announcement for the next major release of Adobe Captivate. At the Adobe Learning Summit, we saw a sneak peek of some features that may or may not end up in the next major release. These included improvements to working with responsive design, the ability to import some classic, or normal projects into responsive design, the inclusion of Typekit in Adobe Captivate and a change in how breakpoints work.

NewMavens

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Everything Captivate seems to have been sent overseas to India. The app is neither Mac-like nor Windows-like. It looks and feels like an open-source Linux program. Mac performance is horrific. Articulate is miles ahead in look-and-feel and community support (though no Mac version yet). Captivate for Windows runs better on my Mac in Parallels than the native Mac version does. I wish Adobe would take Captivate seriously, or spin it off to its own company where maybe someone will.

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sdwarwick

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programs with a long history accumulate 'technical debt' that after a while become nearly unmanageable. I can imagine the level of complexity captivate has had to maintain given the need to support browsers from ie6+ through the latest chrome along with the evolution of flash/html5 and multiple platforms.

a program that performed similar functions, but without the need for compatibility with older technologies, would likely be far more capable and would support a modern interface. the strategy I'd probably take in building such a product would be to support import of the captivate file format, with no flash. I'd probably license the PPT import technology from some other entity as the captivate built-in technology is so poor. I'd probably use a modern interface, perhaps purely multiple-window browser based UI with an electron/node back end, or perhaps golang/c++11 as they are compiled and would enable better control over the proprietary code. I'd probably open source the javascript player in order to enable widespread customization, and provide a path to the addition of compiled add-ons, enabling aftermarket developers a pathway to revenue.

it seems like many folks are developing alternative authoring tools, but I have not seen anyone actually take on the challenge of importing the captivate datafile. given the installed base, this would seem to be a great opportunity, and would also encourage innovation inside the captivate design group.

let's not also forget that development of an authoring tool is very hard and the market is just not that big, so the number of designers that a company can devote to it is always going to be limited, particularly compared to blockbusters like photoshop. a cash rich company might choose to simply buy their way into maintaining a lead position rather than trying to engineer their way forward.

mattchambers1987

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Bad news guys. I got Captivate 10 (I think they dropped the numbering convention) but regardless, still unacceptable performance issues on my high end Mac. Super disappointing. It runs slower than my old PC (circa 2010) It's so similar to 9 anyway, I don't think they took performance for Mac users seriously.

NewMavens

Inspiring

Agreed, absolutely zero improvement in performance on Mac, which is abysmal. I'm paying monthly for a product that is nigh unusable. Address this please Adobe!

Lilybiri

Legend

Please, log bug reports, contact Adobe but this is mainly a user forum. Ranting to other users will not help at all, just annoying for us.

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tedh7

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Is there going to be any VR in Captivate 10?

Paul Wilson CTDP

Community Expert

I have no influence over what ends up in the next major release of Captivate, but I'm curious, how do you see VR being integrated into Captivate?

Paul Wilson, CTDP

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tedh7

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Paul,

Thanks for the question. First VR’s potential for education is huge.

I want to take my students to the historical places I talk about and let

Them see and explore those places taking dead history, music, art, literature,

Geography and make it come alive. Fly down the Nile with me…let’s climb

Mount Sinai.

What I could use is:

1) 360 video and 360 panoramas players embedded in Captivate

(cf. what Adobe is doing with stitching 360 panos in PS and Lightroom; also

in the video realm in the new versions of Premiere/After Effects),

2) the ability to embed hotspots in those panos to popup still images and sound or

jump to a new 360 panorama or video allowing for tours through linked VR panos.

3) Be able to have variables so that I can gamify the VR explorations

so when they get to Rome and visit the Colosseum I can use the

variable to indicate they have made it there and can track their

progress, and

4) be able to export to VR head mounted devices (still also tablets,

Phones or computer screens).

Those four things would do the VR thing for me.

Thanks so much for asking! This could revolutionize education.

I’m wanting to capture and do narrated walk-thrus of Jerusalem,

Jericho, Masada, etc. and then build educational games off of that

VR content.

Dr. Ted Hildebrandt

Gordon College

255 Grapevine Rd.

Wenham, MA 01984

ted.hildebrandt@gordon.edu<mailto:ted.hildebrandt@gordon.edu>

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dan561

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More documentation!!!! I find the Adobe tutorials to be very superficial. Beyond newbie level we all depend on the MVPs. It would be so much easier to have good documentation available than to hope that some more experienced user happens to know the answer to what must be rather common questions.

RodWard

Community Expert

You're "preaching to the choir" here. We all agree on this point, but it's not traditionally been something Adobe does well.

NewMavens

Inspiring

Waiting anxiously for a Captivate 10 release. The Articulate folks are doing some great things right now. I'm hoping Adobe is going to step up their game. I've found performance of Captivate 9 on Mac to be terrible - is anyone else experiencing the same?

Chris_DigiCert

Participant

I'm with ya on the Mac performance not being what it could/should. I've got the latest top end Mac with the upgraded processor and maxed out RAM and I still get the spinning beach ball with Captivate. I'm really hoping for some performance improvements and Captivate 10 being optimized for the latest MacOS. Optimizing the latest version of MacOS is probably going to give the biggest performance improvements if they do it.

NewMavens

Inspiring

Everything on the Mac version is slow on my machine. Even moving a couple of on-screen elements is like working in slo-mo. Do you get the same?

Adobe Captivate 9 for Mac: Serious Performance Issues - YouTube

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sdwarwick

Participating Frequently

OK - here's another one.. I've spent a few hours now having to track down how captivate models drag&drop interactions.. finally found the following javascript object:

cp.DD.CurrInteractionManager.m_ActiveInteraction

it carries everything about the current state of the interaction. I don't see any information from Adobe that documents this, only a few sporadic mentions in the forums for specific use.. Wish there was more out there like this, would make life so much easier.

Paul Wilson CTDP

Correct answer

Community Expert

To my knowledge, there is no official announcement for the next major release of Adobe Captivate. At the Adobe Learning Summit, we saw a sneak peek of some features that may or may not end up in the next major release. These included improvements to working with responsive design, the ability to import some classic, or normal projects into responsive design, the inclusion of Typekit in Adobe Captivate and a change in how breakpoints work.

Paul Wilson, CTDP

New_guy1Author

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Thanks Paul. Please post something on your YouTube channel when you get your hands on a final beta.

Lilybiri

Legend

I'm sorry but nobody is allowed to talk about a beta version of any release. I will never answer this type of questions, out of respect for the NDA agreement I signed.

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