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affectionate_artistry5FF7
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March 24, 2020
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Interaction following timeline of vide

  • March 24, 2020
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Hello everyone. We're considering using Adobe Captivate as a tool for our interactive e-Learning modules; however, I would love to get some feedback about the 'sync' of interactions on a video timeline - this is a problem that forced us to resort to a custom framework, after Articulate Storyline wasn't able to adress it. 

 

Many of our clients access this e-learning in a low bandwith environment, which causes the video to buffer but the interaction time line would continue playing, causing interactions to come at incorrect times. 

 

Ultimately what I'm looking for is an ability to trigger an interaction when the video timeline reaches, for example, 00:23 (not the actual project timeline). 

 

I've looked in this community and found the following posts, but don't address the problem directly. 

https://community.adobe.com/t5/captivate/interactive-video-loading-causing-slide-to-lose-sync/m-p/10506091?page=1#M271520

 

https://community.adobe.com/t5/captivate/streaming-interactive-video-loading-delay/m-p/10401289?page=1#M269445

 

Thanks in advance for any ideas or inputs about this!

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Lilybiri
Lilybiri
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March 24, 2020

Terminologyis always a problem... You talk about 'interactive tutorials', but the links you show are not about really interactive tutorials but about a more recent hybrid use of 'interactive video', which is a combination of a video which pauses at ceertain points to show more information or a knowledge check slide in a static overlay slide. I don't label that as a normal interactive tutorial which is NOT based on a video, but has a slide-based approach.

Timeline in such a normal Captivate project is quite different from the timeline in a video.  

Please, specify what you want exactly to create: video with overlay slides (not that much interactive) or really interactive tutorials? This si an interactive video:

http://www.lilybiri.com/published/PlayPause_Scal/index.html

 

This is an interactive tutorial:

http://www.lilybiri.com/published/AnswerChoice/index.html

 

Hope you understand the difference?  

 

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affectionate_artistry5FF7Author
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March 25, 2020

Hi, 

 

Thanks for your quick reply! I'm fairly new to this so my terminology might be off for sure.  Our modules are video-based with interactions that lead to branching. You can see a small excerpt from one of our modules here: https://vimeo.com/326377794/4df2770843

 

So the issue we face with other tools is that when the video is forced to buffer, like on a slower connection, the 'interaction timeline' doesn't consider that fact and moves forward as usual, causing the interaction to appear before the video reaches the needed point. 

 

I hope that's a bit more clear from my side, sorry about the confusion. 

Lilybiri
Lilybiri
Legend
March 25, 2020

Sorry, but a 'video' cannot have interactions....  That is why I offered two links to explain the difference betwee what is confusingly called 'interactive' video and a fully interactive course. On vimeo you will always have a passive video. You can use it to create an interactive video, and the overlay slides will appear at the planned frame. In an interactive video you only have a video timeline, and the overlay slides (and eventually bookmarks) are on that line. There is NO interaction timeline at all. The video is paused and the overlay slide will appear. That slide has its slide timelin which can have pausing points to allow control by the learner.

 

Means that I really don't know yet what you want to do, what you mean by 'interactivity'?

 

Recently I presented a webinar about 'interactivity in CP':

http://blog.lilybiri.com/interactivity-in-captivate-back-to-basics

 

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