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Dirlo
Dirlo
Inspiring
January 16, 2025
Question

Captivate Classic Projects after 2027

  • January 16, 2025
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Hello Captivaters and Captivate's team !

I want to know clearly what will happen to the hundreds of courses I've created with Captivate Classic after 2027 and the end of the support ?

- Will they still be available on Internet ?

- Will I be able to create new projects with Captivate Classic after 2027 ?

- Will I be able to modify these old projects ?

It appears that the "all new Captivate" doesn't give me all the opportunities (Drag and Drop, use of Javascritp, freedom with the design...) I have with the Classic version and I'm afraid this won't be the case in the future releases of the new version.

😉

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    RodWard
    Community Expert
    RodWardCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    January 16, 2025

    The courses should still work on the internet.

    Whether you can continue creating new courses with Captivate Classic is likely to be dependent on whether or not it continues to work with your Operating System.  The main thing that tends to completely stop Captivate from working is a new OS release with which it is not compatible.  This happens to MacOS users all the time because their major OS updates seem to be more frequent than Windows.

     

    So this potential limitation (Captivate ceasing to work) would also prevent you from being able to modify those older projects at some point.

     

    Your only hope would be that one day Adobe DOES provide a way for Captivate 12 to open and upgrade Captivate Classic projects.  But I have not seen any date given for when (or if) that might occur.

    Dirlo
    DirloAuthor
    Inspiring
    January 16, 2025

    Thanks for your answer !... (As you are now the last Dinosaur of the "Classic" version !??...)

     

    Years ago, I had already lost all the works I had done with Flash... I don't want to see the same story happened as I had invested so much time and neurons in Captivate. And I'm not very optimistic with the fact that both versions will be one day compatible !...

     

    So let's hope and see what will happen in the next years !...

     

    I wish you all the best for this new year !

     

    😉

    RodWard
    Community Expert
    RodWardCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    January 17, 2025

    First time I have been called a 'Dinosaur".  Sounds ominous, considering what happened to them.

     

    To be quite honest, although I have supported Captivate since it first came out many years ago, I cannot in all conscience recommend it to anyone right now as the app they should invest years of time creating e-learning.

     

    There is no future for Captivate Classic.  And Captivate 12 is far too limited to be the tool of choice for most of the e-learning companies and government organisations want.   I really feel that Adobe dropped the ball with the entire direction they have gone with Captivate 12.

     

    The only reason I am still creating e-learning with Captivate Classic is that the clients I currently have still use it as their tool of choice.  But I have warned them continuously about the danger of not looking elsewhere for their future tool.  Sadly, many learning managers just tend to "kick the can down the road" until they land in deep proverbial one day when everything stops working overnite.

     

    Maybe THEY are the real dinosaurs.

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