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Captivate - April 2018 Update

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April 26, 2018
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Having waited so long for an update to Captivate, I was excited to see there was one available to me today.

After struggling to find any release notes, I eventually found some here:

Captivate (2017 release) Update 1 released - eLearning

Is this seriously all they can do in the space of a year? It seems they are more interested in creating video tutorials and integrating eLearning Brothers assets rather than fixing issues or implementing feature requests.

They really need to take a leaf from Articulate Storyline, who update and fix their software monthly.

Storyline 360 Version History - Articulate Support

Unfortunately, our hand is being forced and we are slowly gaining more Storyline licences.

How do other long time users feel?

Cheers.

Ross

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John From Don

Known Participant

It would be better if they weren't as secretive. I have used Lectora of late and found it worse than before, Storyline I still cannot abide.

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patientzero

Participating Frequently

Agreed. How about at LEAST fixing some of the annoying issues that have been around for long time:

1. After a while it stops pasting what you want to paste - and reverts to pasting an older image you pasted. you have to shut down and restart.

2. No hanging indents in bulleted lists

3. Make it so you can start the mouse path wherever you want.

4. Add a 'fine-tuning' feature like Storyline has

5. Export closed captions into a word doc by slide number

Lilybiri

Legend

Maybe you misunderstand, but this is a user forum. If you want to be 'heard' by the Captivate team, please log bug reports/feature requests.

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patientzero

Participating Frequently

The original poster asked how other long time users feel about the 2017 release. The cap team doesn't need to hear from me on these topics. If they haven't fixed them by now after all these years - they're not going to be surprised by my suggestions.

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DinsyPiranha

Known Participant

Agree Rod - horses for courses, and there are some things in Storyline that annoy me. Their drag and drop is not as flexible and the publishing adds a step which catches the unwary.

With respect to VR and AR, Trivantis have developed CenarioVR which looks really interesting. Cloud based unfortunately but I could cope:-) Hope Adobe's offering is as good if not better.

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tedh7

Known Participant

I'm wanting to do a VR and AR project building content that will take my students on
journeys I'm trying to find out if Captivate or Storyline is going to be first into the VR
development world so I don't have to learn C# to do it in Unity 3D. Seems like Adobe
is dragging its feet in the VR development and while I appreciate their work on 360 video
for Premiere, I need it in an interactive form in Captivate. Seems like Captivate is fading
away. Where do I make feature requests and does it do any good?

David Burnham HBA

Inspiring

Well part of your request is in the works. At the Washington conference they sneak peeked interactive video and interactive 360 video. Unity does not appear to be in the works. I work with my son who's a Unity developer but we have been unable to make a link between Captivate and Unity.

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tedh7

Known Participant

David,

Thanks this gives me hope as I like Captivate. VR and AR are coming like the
next big thing and it is going to be soooo significant for educators who will need
and easy to learn development interface. Thanks!

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DinsyPiranha

Known Participant

I was thinking the same thing Ross.

Rod - if Adobe were really serious about Captivate I would expect update cycles typical of many of the Creative Cloud apps which appear to be running at about 2-3 a year.

After using Storyline a bit in the last months, I am finding Captivate's interface a little tired in comparison, with a few more clicks to get things done than in Storyline..

Also wondering if Adobe have a Rise or Dominknow Flow alternative in the works. While I prefer a tool which stores its projects locally, a cloud based development platform has flexibility advantages.

Hope to see some major advances very soon.

Andrew

RodWard

Community Expert

Whether you prefer Captivate's interface or Storyline's seems to me to be an entirely personal matter and highly subjective.

For the past 6 months I have been using Storyline 360 for my current client's project and am dying to get back to using Captivate again.

Yes it's true that in some cases doing the same thing in Captivate will require a couple more mouse clicks, but at least you have tons of configuration options to control things. Storyline takes away a lot of that creative control in an effort to simplify. It's a trade-off some people would enjoy while others will hate it.

Horses for courses...

RodWard

Community Expert

I have no inside knowledge to prove this next statement, but on the basis of my previous experience with Adobe, I can assure you this modest update/bugfix release for Captivate 10 is NOT likely to be the only think the development team have been working on.

R_H__Author

Inspiring

I hope you are right Rod. But historically, from the amount of time between Captivate updates, I don't expect anything anytime soon.

Hopefully they prove me wrong.

RodWard

Community Expert

Looking at the list of release dates on Wikipedia for Adobe Captivate, they have usually been around the 12-18 month timeframe. Captivate 2017 took several months longer (probably due to issues with getting the new Fluid Boxes working properly).

If the pattern holds, then we should be seeing something around the middle of this year, or at least before the end of this year.

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