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camillap8593359
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January 5, 2018
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Converting old captivate 8 projects from flash to mp4?

  • January 5, 2018
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Hi,

We are thinking of buying Captivate 2017, we have had Capitvate 8 before. Our projects are published in flash, but now we have problems with flash, of course.

Does anyone know if it is possible to open old project-files from Captivate 8, in Captivate 2017 and convert them from flash to some other format?

(Our Captivate 8 got lost in a computer and server change, and the IT-guys have not had time, or bothered, to root for it yet)

Which format should we choose instead? HTML5 has not worked for us.

Thanks,

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    camillap8593359Author
    Participant
    January 8, 2018

    Thank you so much guys, you have been very helpful

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    KeyPointLearn
    Inspiring
    January 5, 2018

    I just finished republishing a bunch of CP8 files as .mp4 (YouTube Widescreen HD) in CP 2017. As Lieve and Rod mentioned, you loose interactivity, but the conversion worked fine for me.

    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
    Legend
    January 6, 2018

    Sure, but I never understand why developers use Captivate for a non-interactive eLearning course. For a pure video I would use Prexenter Video XPress or Camtasia. Power of a good eLearning is all about interactivity. Sorry for repeating this all the time, but I have been training and teaching many years and learning efficiency has always been my first priority.

    RodWard
    Community Expert
    RodWardCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    January 5, 2018

    A few tips here about the kind of things you would need to consider when migrating projects from Flash to HTML5:

    http://www.infosemantics.com.au/adobe-captivate/convert-swf-courses-to-html5

    Apart from HTML5, here aren't now really any other options as far as output. Publishing to an EXE is really publishing to a self-running Flash file.  So if Flash is off the table, so is Captivate EXE output. Publishing to PDF requires end users to all have Flash Player plugins installed in their PDF reader software.  So that's really out of the question as well.

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    camillap8593359Author
    Participant
    January 5, 2018

    Thanks!!

    Does anybody knows what happens if you choose to publish in mp4?

    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
    Legend
    January 5, 2018

    You lose all interactivity, because MP4 is a passive video format. If you used Closed Captioning, you'll lose that as well because it is part of the skin.

    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
    Legend
    January 5, 2018

    You can open those files in CP2017, but be prepared to have some editing work. Not all features supported in SWF are available for HTML5 output. Moreover there can be some upgrade issues as well. Just one tip: don't try to convert them at the same time to responsive projects but keep to rescalable HTML5.

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