Use of Adobe Animate by Captivate Developers

Question

A few years ago I used Flash to create elearning itself, and then with the advent of Captivate to add more complex animations to my Captivate presentations. Adobe has re-branded Flash as Animate and the focus of the product is to create html/css/js. The output can be created as an OAM package. This OAM package can be inserted in Captivate which can give one a lot of interactivity in a contained object on the slide. A general question, are Captivate users/developers looking at developing content with Animate. I would love to hear thoughts on this.

RodWard · Answer

Yes and no.

On this forum we see lots of (often very basic) questions by new Captivate users. Encouraging such users to dive into Animate when they barely have any grasp of Captivate itself is just asking for trouble. They get themselves into enough difficulty already.

That being said...Many more experienced Captivate developers also have the entire CC suite of apps and are game enough to dive in and develop more sophisticated interactions with Animate for later inclusion in Captivate. More power to them.

However, the downside of this approach is that, while the results can be quite impressive, care needs to be exercised against inadvertently creating a maintenance nightmare for anyone coming after you that needs to edit the same course content. They may not have your expertise and may not have Animate at all.

I tend to believe that anyone including OAM files in Captivate courses should be willing to include documentation and source files for those projects to explain what was done and how to perform edits without breaking the entire course.

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