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Say Hello to the all-new Adobe Captivate!

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July 1, 2023
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The wait is finally over! The much anticipated, much awaited Adobe Captivate is here.

We are proud to introduce you to our new authoring tool that will empower you to create interactive eLearning content with ease. With extensive research, collaboration, and a deep understanding of the evolving needs of course creators, we have developed a game-changing platform that will redefine the future of eLearning authoring.

Easy to Use

Bring your ideas to life easily with the user-friendly and intuitive interface of the new Adobe Captivate.

Modern

Modernize your course by embracing the power of infinite scrolling in the new Adobe Captivate. Design your courses as continuous narratives with web friendly vertical scrolling.

Asset Library

Create beautiful eLearning content in minutes with the Assets library, which provides a vast collection of resources such as templates, characters, images, icons, audio clips, and videos to enhance your eLearning projects.

Simplified Interaction Creation

Design and develop user interactions in a straightforward and user-friendly manner using the new Adobe Captivate. The simplified interaction interface allows you to easily define specific triggers, conditions, and corresponding actions for your e-learning interaction.

Simulation Development

Simulate the behavior of a software application or system easily using the redesigned simulation capture capability of the new Adobe Captivate. You can simultaneously create demo, training and assessment software simulations by recording your actions once.

Widget Gallery

Develop immersive and interactive learning experiences in minutes without any technical hassle using the wide range of customizable widgets in the new Adobe Captivate.

Responsive and Mobile-Friendly Design

The new Adobe Captivate is responsive by default and optimizes your eLearning courses for different devices and screen sizes. It ensures that the content and design elements automatically adapt to various devices, including desktop computers, laptops, tablets, and smartphones.

Accessible

Reach a broader audience by making your e-learning accessible and inclusive to learners with disabilities or diverse needs. The new Adobe Captivate enables you to create online courses that are Section 508, WCAG 2.1 compliant.

For more information, please visit https://www.adobe.com/products/captivate.html. Stay tuned for our upcoming posts filled with valuable insights, practical tips, and inspiring stories.

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jonathanw70189446

Inspiring

It's truly remarkable that Adobe has the courage to release such a shoddy product.

New Captivate is riddled with bugs and lacks some really critical abilities particularly compared to Rise and it's other competitors.

I get that this is a fraction of the cost compared to Articulate etc, but compared to old Captivate, this is an absolute dog.

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alight9010

Inspiring

Insulting to dogs 😂

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Saurav_Ghosh

Author

Community Manager

Hi @jonathanw70189446 and @alight9010

I'm sorry you feel this way. Would you mind mentioning the issues you're facing and how we can improve the overall product?

Thanks,

Saurav

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Rafik34259886i30g

Participant

I was especially interested in the ability to create continuous courses with vertical scrolling. This opens up new horizons for presenting material!

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gregb97325605

Participant

Hello, I was wondering if there are features to accomodate multiple developers? We operate as a team developing courses and I was wondering if the new captivate has features similar to most Office 360 or G-Suite tools that allow multiple instructional designers to work on the same course.

RodWard

Community Expert

I would have to say the answer is NO.

That feature has not been mentioned anywhere on the Adobe Captivate section of the Adobe website (as far as I can remember).

https://www.adobe.com/au/products/captivate.html

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williamnHCA

Participant

I'm part of a team exploring v12 before we upgrade across the enterprise, but we hit compatibility issues right away and have paused plans to upgrade until more feature parity exists (if ever*).
*One feature I'm concerned might not be on the road map is the ability to use video embeds other than youtube and vimeo--which are the only web video options currently supported (or inserting video directly but that's not ideal for our work flow).
We use a video management service that produces embed code that v12 doesn't accept. And I just checked the Responsive project type from v11 (that's been available in Captivate for years) and realize that it has had that same embed limitation all along. Is that always going to be the case?

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williamnHCA

Participant

I take part of my post above back--the v11 responsive project does allow a web oject to exist in a fluid box, which does work with our particular video embed code. But I don't believe v12 had a web object available. (unless I'm wrong, which I'm happy to be.)

Lilybiri

Legend

I just wanted to tell you about inserting the video using a web object, but you already discovered it. However webobject is not available in version 12. In 11 you don't even need a fluid box to insert that webobject, it is possible to have a slide where you use the Position Properties to define the behavior for a video which you never want to be disproportioned. Have a look at this blog post:

https://blog.lilybiri.com/fluid-boxes-and-interactive-video-position-properties-panel

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Professor Rebecca

Participating Frequently

I am a university professor of graphic design teaching adobe software. I am very disappointed with Captivate. It has been difficult to install, limited in functionality and buggy. I upgraded my system software for this--I had not choice because I was running Big Sur on my Mac--it didn't work at all in Big Sur and it doesn't work very well in Ventura either.

I am so frustrated that I can't use it to simply record a demonstration as an mp4, which is all I wanted. I tried using the "simulation" feature in Illustrator and it was very unsatisfactory. The automatically generated click captions are awful, completely wrong and useless, unattractive and poorly placed, so that I would have to spend time editing each slide or simply delete them.

But all of this pales in comparison to the publishing format. I wanted a nice tidy video package, not an HTML file and a folder full of bits that apparently aren't properly attached. The audio was fine in preview, but when I tried to open it in my browser after publishing, the sound doesn't work.

I have spent hours trying to figure out what is wrong, but I haven't found any help anywhere. The support documentation is way too fluffed up, and with no way to actually locate the answers I need. I would appreciate a simple text guide I can search for answers, not mystery videos trumpeting features that I don't need or want to watch.
I am not at all happy that I wasted so much of my time trying to make this thing happen. I'm back to square one with nothing to show for all my efforts. And after spending days trying to make a simple video, my class for tomorrow is ruined because I cannot get this "easy to use" application to work.

Lilybiri

Legend

As promised in another (standalone) post, some more information here.

Captivate is an eLearning authoring tool, not a simple screen recording tool. In eLearning interactivity is very important, has priority to achieve engaging and efficient eLearning assets. You cannot have interactivies in a passive video.

I understand from your question that you want to create passive video (MP4) using the software simulation feature in Demo mode. The new version 12 will always publish to HTML because each project, including the software simulations is meant to be responsive which means that it needs to be generated on runtime depending on the used device and browser resolution. That explains why you cannot publish to MP4 which is passive and static. I understand your frustration which is at least partially due to a lack of clear communication (if it would be read).

If you have license for version 12 you are also entitled to use Captivate Classic (version 11.8.2). That version has almost all the features of previous versions, lot of them are not yet available in version 12. For your present goal you would better use the Video Demo which is included in Captivate Classic. It is meant to publish only to MP4, has a dedicated non-destructive video editor with a lot of features and its quality is much higher than with a software simulation in demo mode published to MP4. Yes, Captivate Classic can publish a software sim to MP4 and demo mode has no need for interactivity. Video Demo allows you to record your screen AND your webcam at the same time, and you can edit what you really want to see after capture.

As professor, teaching a lot of software applications (MS Project, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Audition, Adobe InDesign) I started using Captivate 1 to create software simulations. But my students, invited to give feedback about my experiments (two decades ago) persuaded me quickly that they largely preferred Training or Assessment simulations over the Demo sims. I rarely use demo mode since Video Demo mode appeared with version 6.

If you want to know more about interactivity, here is a link to a blog post which is based on a webinar I presented for Adobe Community Experts (most of them are creative, graphic specialists) to explain what that means:

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

You will find some posts about Video Demo, Software simulations, interactive video as well on my blogsite.

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Professor Rebecca

Participating Frequently

Hi Lilybiri,

I do agree with the utility of interactive learning. Unfortunately the small rural state university where I am an art department adjunct is pretty dysfunctional when it comes to tech, and there is a good deal of interdepartmental tension, faculty are overburdened, they are chronically short-staffed, and normal administrative tasks can be harrowingly hard to accomplish, while unusual technical tasks often turn out to be impossible. Given my past experience with these kinds of obstacles, it is a daunting prospect to contemplate arranging to upload a web site to a server where it can be tested and utilized by students. Upon consideration of all of this, it's clear to me that I am not being paid enough to take that on at this time, since it is not required of me.

Besides, sometimes you just need to make a professional-looking screen capture video.

Adobe should have been more forthcoming about the discontinued functionalities of the new release, and should have provided searchable user guides at the very least. I still deeply resent the way the company's lack of meaningful customer service resulted in me wasting a whole lot of my time, only to find out that Captivate is no longer the application once was.

OzBassist

Inspiring

Is there any update scheduled for screen capturing on the Mac platform?
Every time I attempt this, there's a message saying that I have to enable the security settings to allow Captivate to access my screen.
It's enabled - otherwise it wouldn't try to start recording, right?
So the countdown begins and all seems normal.
I decide to stop recording and press the appropriate keys - CMD+Enter.

Nothing happens (surprise surprise).
So I click the CP icon in the top menu.
And of course you guessed it - the application crashes.

Why don't you just completely disable the software simulation function until you have fixed it?

OzBassist

Inspiring

It seems the problem only occurs on my mac with multiple monitors.

Lilybiri

Legend

Hi John, using multiple monitors while recording a software simulation or a Video Demo always has been a pain. I use to keep to one monitor when doing recording to avoid those problems. Moreover, before version 12 is updated a couple of times I keep to Captivate Classic for Video Demo and Software sims.

melaniesksde

Known Participant

I was on Captivate 2019 version 11.8. Updated to version 12 today. And it won't recognize any of my current projects. Seriously??!!?!?!

RodWard

Community Expert

You were probably unaware of the announcements that Adobe has made about this issue. Captivate 2019 (AKA Classic Captivate) and the new Captivate 2023 (AKA Captivate 12) are not compatible. Neither one can open files created by the other. There is no upgrade path from CPTX files to the new version.

melaniesksde

Known Participant

You're right I was unaware. I don't spend much time on the Adobe site as I don't find it very helpful. They've been talking about a new version with new, exciting features for...what, 3 years. And then they say, oh, nevermind, we didn't mean it. I stopped following.

I would expect, considering all the marketing emails we get, there would be a message sent to current customers on 11.8 about the upgrade. But there wasn't. Adobe needs to communicate with customers if they want to keep them. Clearly that isn't the case.

OzBassist

Inspiring

So finally I've been able to install a version of Charm on my Mac Powerbook (not my production machine) and have been able to load it up without crashing, which is great.

I have a couple of productivity questions that the geniuses at Adobe should be able to answer:
When you want to use a particular style for text that has a specific purpose, you have a choice (in the Theme editor) of 9 Heading styles 6 subheading styles and 6 Body styles etc.
Q1: I'd like to know how to name these styles something a little more appropriate rather than Heading 1 etc...
Q2: I'd like to be able to create new reusable styles and name them appropriately. How do I do that?
Q3: I'd like to be able to copy a slide from one project to another and maintain all the styles from the source document with an option to override on the destination document. How do I do that?
Since many of my projects have a number of colours, (ie more that the 9 offered)..
Q4: I'd like to be able to create new colour swatches and name them. How do I do that?
The Theme panel is really confusing when it comes to the slide background.
Q5: I'd like to have a number of pre-built Master Slides to apply to particular pages. How do I do that?
Q6: I like to use background images on a master slide, not just on a document slide. How do I do that?

Q7: Many of my interactive components in CP2019 are smart shapes with multiple states. Many of these states are images with transparent backgrounds. I can't see how an image can be used in a button state. How can I do that?

Q8: If I copy a slide from one document to another, I'd like to include any images that were on the source slide. How do I do that.
Q9: If I use an image that's not quite how I want it, beyond simple cropping and colour/tone tweaking, I'd like to be able to find the source and just edit it in Photoshop or Illustrator depending on it's file type. I can't see how to manage assets at all.
Q10: OK I'll stop now. All of these questions are answered by CP2019 as standard functionalities. So my question really is "when will the new software be able to do at least the bare minimum of what the old version did?".

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bobg

Known Participant

Hi John,

I too made a couple of attempts to install the new version on my Macbook Pro M1, OS Ventura 13.4.1 with the same results that you have experienced. I have been waiting for Adobe to answer and provide an update or procedure of how to get the new CP installed on a Mac. Still waiting! I have not made any further attempts to try and install the new version as my time is better spent producing projects.

Can I ask you, if you have the time, to post the procedure that you used to successfully complete a working install. It is my intention to stay with the classic version as I see no need to struggle with a version that is not up to the abilities of classic that you have posted above. Maybe by 2027 Adobe may have got it sorted by then who knows? Thank you Bob

sharath ramaswamy

Adobe Employee

Hi Bob,

Sorry to hear about the problems you have faced while trying to install the new Adobe Captivate on your Mac. Please contact our support team at tcssup@adobe.com and they will be able to assist you with the installation.

Thanks

Sharath

(Evangelist, Adobe Captivate)

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MagentaCosmos

Known Participant

I have been saying that Rise is like the Squarespace or MS Paint of eLearning authoring, and have advocated really hard for my new employer to purchase Captivate licenses. And much to my embarrassment and dismay, the newest version is what appears to be Adobe's version of Rise.

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MagentaCosmos

Known Participant

That being said, I'm not going to lose hope that the New Captivate will have all the features offered by Captivate 2019. I've been repeatedly hearing that that's the plan. The sleek interface would be a welcome change to the clunkiness of 2019, and I look forward to never hearing that awful error chime again when I'm using any MacBook keyboard shortcuts.

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jean-luct73116958

Participant

Great news! Very promising software! Thanks for the update!

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