When aill Adobe actually make Captivate 12 a useable product?

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February 14, 2025
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I would really like to start using Adobe Captivate 12 to build responsive courses but it is still impossible to design a useable course because of the lack of focus on basic design needs.

Major case in point... It is impossible to add video into a course.

If I try to add video into a course Captivate does something utterly ridiculous with the layout. It creates a horrible black wrapper around the outside of the video that it is impossible to manage. For example Here I have added a video. I can adjust the size and position of the video by tweaking the size of the padding around it and in doing so, I can remove most of the black padding around it.

But look what happens when I switch to mobile phone view...

This is completely unusable and If I try to adjust the padding to make this fit like so...

Look what happens to desktop view...

Captivate could be a great product but this makes it totally unuasable for any professional course builds.

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TrainerUK

Participant

I agree. The black wrapper looks amateur and needs to be sorted quickly. Other responsive apps can do it without a black wrapper!

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Marc FESLER

Participating Frequently

Hi, did you manage to fix this problem ou to find a work-around ?

Thanks

kdmemory

Inspiring

This problem existed already in classic Cp. Though I think one could set the color for this kind of 'letterboxing'. It's of course related to the aspect ratio of a video.

Maybe as a workaround put the video into an HTML5 video tag, put in online and present it in Cp in an Web Object. Just thinking.