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JacquesGenevieve
Inspiring
February 2, 2012
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Captivate in Flash

  • February 2, 2012
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Hi!

At my office, we're using Captivate CS5, but every other Adobe softwares are CS3.

When recording our Captivate, we wanted to capture mostly all of the screen, while respecting the flash resolution the captivate would go into after (900x506). When publishing, we noticed that the quality is REALLY deprecating when we resize the video, which do not happen when we resize a video in Premiere for example.

So I thought that if I export my Captivate into a video, then I could import it in Premiere, resize it, export it into a FLV and then import it in Flash. Only big problem : there seems to have no way to export it in a recognisable format for Premiere.

Then I thought, maybe I could export it in SWF and the convert it in a video format. I tried many freeware and there wasn't any that worked.

Solutions anyone? Maybe something simpler that my idea? 😕😕

Thank you very much!

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Correct answer Captiv8r

Sorry, I didn't explain well.

I have to technical explanation on this, perhaps someone else does. But for some reason video formats are just somehow "different" and allow scaling nicely. Captivate formats are bitmapped. And even if you export them to a video format, they don't appear to take on the same attributes and rescaling causes the ill effects you see.

What would be way cool (if it were to happen) is if one of the Captivate team members could explain this in terms we can all easily understand.

Cheers... Rick

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Captiv8r
Captiv8r
Legend
February 2, 2012

Hi there

Sounds like we need to discuss understanding as well as terminology.

Adobe Apps are CS whatever and that refers to Creative Suite. But Captivate is not part of the Creative Suite, so CS is incorrect even though it is at version 5.5 like the Creative Suite versioning is.

When working in Premiere, you are working in a video format. Video formats nicely scale to most any size and you don't notice much (if any) degradation in viewing quality at different sizes.

However, Captivate is a raster, or bitmapped application. This means what it captures is bitmapped images. Think of a grid where each square in the grid is saturated with a single color. The mosaic makes up the picture. So when you scale it down, you are subtracting information. Picture Elements (PiXELs) overlap and the computer calculates new values. The end result is often less than satisfactory.

The best approach is to record at the exact same size you plan on presenting. This way there is no loss of quality whatsoever.

Cheers... Rick

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J
JacquesGenevieveAuthor
Inspiring
February 2, 2012

Oups for the CS in Captivate!

And even if I didn't know why there was a quality loss. The problem is not to why, but how to export it in a video format. Which would allow us to resize it easily.

For recording the same size, easier said than done. As I said our flash is 900x506 and cannot be bigger, because mostly everyone in my office is still working in 1024x768, substract to that toolbars and stuff, we calculated that if we wanted the people to see everything in our flash without scrolling, the best resolution is 900x506. Also we have HD videos in our flash, so it respects HD ratio.

If we record in Captivate in 900x506, we'll see almost nothing, we would always have to scroll and the learning would be less effective, cause the video resulting would be too complicated for nothing. That is why we need to resize the video. In a video format. And we need to find a way to export Captivate in video (or convert the swf in a video format).

Any solutions?

Captiv8r
Captiv8rCorrect answer
Legend
February 2, 2012

Sorry, I didn't explain well.

I have to technical explanation on this, perhaps someone else does. But for some reason video formats are just somehow "different" and allow scaling nicely. Captivate formats are bitmapped. And even if you export them to a video format, they don't appear to take on the same attributes and rescaling causes the ill effects you see.

What would be way cool (if it were to happen) is if one of the Captivate team members could explain this in terms we can all easily understand.

Cheers... Rick

Helpful and Handy Links

Captivate Wish Form/Bug Reporting Form

Adobe Certified Captivate Training

SorcerStone Blog

Captivate eBooks

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