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Ferdinand256138708skm
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August 11, 2022
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Unfamiliar with Captivate; anyone know if it can support this specific video production use case?

  • August 11, 2022
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Thanks to anyone you reads my post; even more thanks to anyone who cares to make a knowledgeable post to my question.

 

Ionsidering licensing Captivate but must be able to address one specific video production need.  We have a very tiny team who video production.  Some are content experts who record the raw content and others deal with the editing and post-processing.

 

My present perception of Captivate is that video production is one of several main functions but it may not be it's strong point.  

 

Before I can license even just one copy, I need to know if Captivate specifically supports the sequential process of one user recording video content and another user editing that same content.

 

I know that it sounds like a basic question but it is one that I've not been able to get answered anywhere else thus far.  And, this question is mission critical for us.  No other combination of (non-video) benefits that would come from using Captivate could possibly overcome it's inability to address this specific use case.  

 

Thank you again for your consideration of  sharing a post with me.

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    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
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    August 11, 2022

    Do you mean the creation of a passive video? Captivate is an eLearning authoring tool, where interactivity is very important. Video creation is for sure not one of its main functions although you can publish a course to passive video (MP4) if you accept the loss of all interactivity.  

     

    By 'recording' do you mean screen recording or any video recording? For screencapturing Captivate offers Video Demo which has only output to MP4, or the slide based software simulations where you could publish the demo mode version to passive video since it has barely intractivity.

    Post-processing and editing can be done, but all depends on what you exactly want to do. It may be better for paasive video to switch to a real video editor. VIdeo Demo has a pretty good editor, but even then I will switch to Premiere Pro or Rush at the end because that offers more editing features.

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      Ferdinand256138708skmAuthor
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      August 11, 2022

      You are correct Lilybiri.   I am asking about ("Talking heads" kinda of) non-interactive video stuffs.

      I apprecaite your response and the details you shared.  As for video, I'm still interpreting that Captivate's focus is not video production and hence it's video editing functionality is not it's strength.

       

      I should add to for anyone who is kind enough to try to understand my question that I have coworkers who use Captivate all day every day but none of them have every used it's video features.   Plus, I'm very familiar with Camtasia, so when I think of video editing, I think of the many things that Camtasia can do as a tool focused (exclusively?) on video production.

      Lilybiri
      Lilybiri
      Legend
      August 11, 2022

      VideoDemo issimlar to Camtasia, but Camtasia has more bells and whistles. For webinars I have been asked to prepare a video, and always used Video Demo in that case, with its editor. You answered my question indirectly, since Camtasia is indeed a screen recording tool.

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