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tegan719
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May 14, 2006
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Stand Alone Exporting

  • May 14, 2006
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I need to build 5 training modules with each module consisting of around 10 captivate learning files.

I'm aware of Captivate's publish as "stand alone" file, but how do I go about combining multiple captivate files into one stand alone EXE file that I can put on a cd rom (with autorun), or save on a hard drive to be accessed and played?

Thanks for your help!

Tegan
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tegan719Author
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May 16, 2006
Okay Rossco, sounds right, but how do i combine all ten in one? Do I create each file as an EXE file, and then combine them into one? I'm unclear on how I would combine all ten into one. Please help.

Tegan
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Anonymous
May 16, 2006
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Originally posted by: tegan719
Okay Rossco, sounds right, but how do i combine all ten in one? Do I create each file as an EXE file, and then combine them into one? I'm unclear on how I would combine all ten into one. Please help.

Tegan


Hi Tegan,
OK, are we talking placing Multiple SWF's inside Captivate? or Multiple EXE's into one EXE using something like Autoplay Media Studio?

If you are talking about Multiple SWF into CP, then just "Insert/Animation Slide" form within CP, the publish your CP file as stadnalone EXE. NOTE: From my experiences, this worked really well when I made sure every SWF was same size/frame rate etc...I learnt the hard way...by not thinking lol

If you are talking making all the EXE's into one with an application Like Autoplay Media Studio, then you insert a Flash Object on the pages you create in AMS, that flash object being the CP published EXE file, then insert several buttons that when clicked, open whatever movie it is you want to play etc...

Note: you can also just insert all the CP SWFs (not published to EXE) into Autoplay Media Studio project, which still gives you only 1 EXE but several SWFs.

Note2: I have not used it, but you could also look at menu builder that Rick mentioned earlier, although I hear the interface is not that appealing.

HTH
cheers
Rossco


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tegan719Author
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May 14, 2006
Looks good, but at $500 dollars, I will ahve to find something a bit cheaper. But thanks, I think something like Autoplay Media Studio is what I need.

Tegan
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Anonymous
May 14, 2006
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Originally posted by: tegan719
Looks good, but at $500 dollars, I will ahve to find something a bit cheaper. But thanks, I think something like Autoplay Media Studio is what I need.

Tegan


Hi Tegan,
I did a quick google search on the words "Autoplay" and Autorun" and it came up with loads of cheap and some free apps to make autorun CD/DVD, so that l;ooks very promising

cheers
Rossco

Captiv8r
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May 14, 2006
Hi all

Ummm, I may just be having a "dense moment", but am I missing something here? Autorun capability is already built into Captivate.

Now if this software actually does something about combining the multiple .EXE files into a larger, single .EXE file, I see a point. But to simply autostart something, one can simply rely on the existing methods and whatnot inside Captivate and MenuBuilder already.

Cheers... Rick
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Anonymous
May 14, 2006
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Originally posted by: tegan719
I need to build 5 training modules with each module consisting of around 10 captivate learning files.

I'm aware of Captivate's publish as "stand alone" file, but how do I go about combining multiple captivate files into one stand alone EXE file that I can put on a cd rom (with autorun), or save on a hard drive to be accessed and played?

Thanks for your help!

Tegan


Hi Tegan,
I use a product called Autoplay Media Studio > here >>
http://www.indigorose.com/ams/index.php which works amazingly well and very easy to use with loads of customisable intefaces etc, although just to make 1 or 2 Autorun CD/DVDs it is a little pricey, But ther are several other autorun software packages available that makes it childs play..

HTH
Cheers
Rossco

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