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mrmister1
mrmister1
Inspiring
July 2, 2016
Question

How may I configure an excellent sound/video recording with Captivate 9?

  • July 2, 2016
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Hi

I'm new using Adobe Captivate 9 and I have some very important questions.

I've been using other software, like Camtasia, which is more easy to understand but not so powerful as Captivate, so I would like to use Captivate.

My problem is I don't know how:

1) Configure the audio recording to grab audio with an excellent quality, studio quality. I tried with Captivate 8 to capture the screen, and the resulting audio was ugly, like a phone in the 60s... I need an excellent audio capture. How may I configure this?

2) Video capture. With Adobe Captivate 8, I tried to capture the screen, and the result was like losing framerate. The capture was not vivid, I want to capture 25 frames per second. How may I adjust the quantity of frames per second when capturing my video?

If you could help me with this, I'd be grateful.

Cheers

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Lilybiri
Lilybiri
Legend
July 2, 2016

From your questions I think you only want to create passive videos? In that case, keep to Camtasia. Captivate has Video Demo, which can be used as alternative but Camtasia is the better tool for that purpose. Captivate is a real eLearning authoring tool, which means that it is much better at creating interactive courses. Those courses are 'slide-based' even if you talk about software tutorials (but Captivate is not limited to that, you can also create soft-skills courses etc). Whereas a video is published to mp4 mostly, interactive courses are published either to SWF or to HTML.

To answer your questions:

  1. Audio quality depends on the first place on the used voice and the microphone. There is a big difference between a professional voice over specialist and someone not trained. Same for microphones. Although I sometimes create my VO, I will do that not with Captivate but with Audition, part of the Creative Cloud. A free alternative is Audacity.  Those dedicated applications allow to create professional audio clips, provided that you have the right equipment.
  2. When you read my intro, you know already that Video Demo, which results in a cpvc file, and published in a mp4 file is not better at all than Camtasia. The used framerate for the mp4 is 15fps.
    However if you create a normal, slide-based cptx-project for an interactive course, the default framerate is 30fps. I am not sure which type of file you want to use to create the 'video's.
mrmister1
mrmister1Author
Inspiring
July 2, 2016

I don't understand very well what is a Passive Video.

I want to create videos for Youtube. I have seen in the Captivate 9 you can export for youtube.

Yes, basically what I do are software videotutorials in Youtube, however I cannot use SWF to publish a video, I need an mp4 for youtube.

I have a professional microphone, an Audiotechnica, however, I think I tried Captivate 7 or 8, don't remember well, and I did not know why after the capture screen, the recorded voice was so bad recorded... that was like recorded in a tape from the 60s. My mic works fine, and I record perfectly with all the software, for example, with Audicity my recordings have an amazing quality.

So I guess captivate is compressing my audio when recording the screen, and that is exactly what I don't know how to configure?

So let's imagine I want to record my narration in an mp3 with a quality of 128 kbps.

How may I configure that?

Regarding the fps I would like to have the freedom to adjust when I want certain frame rate.

If I am recording a videotutorial, perhaps with 15 frames per second, is okay, but if I don't like the results, perhaps I would like to change that value for 20 fps.

So basically I don't know the steps to configure the quality of the recorded audio?

And I don't know how to configure the desired frame rate in the my video recording?

Could you tell me the steps, please, to change those values to the values I want?

Cheers

Captiv8r
Captiv8r
Legend
July 2, 2016

Hi there

What is meant by a "passive video" is a video that people simply sit back and observe. Same as any other video one sees on YouTube.

Captivate is capable of creating interactive content. And that type of content cannot be just watched on YouTube because you intend for the user to interact in some way. Perhaps by clicking buttons or hotspot areas of some sort.

I think if your intent is only to create things you plan on uploading to YouTube, you should likely avoid Captivate and perhaps stick with Camtasia Studio or another software.

Cheers... Rick

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