WooHoo! Captivate 3 is announced!

I'm definitely going to upgrade. =) - that is, if I can convince my employer.

Have been stuck with Captivate 1 for a while now, and am drooling over the close-captioning possibility. Heh...

I guess the question slide possibilities are something I will test more, since they are more dynamic now. Earlier I have been avoiding this and used it for demo-purposes only.

August was a great surprise, though. I didn't think it'd come out 'till at least November.

Gimme, gimme! =)

Right now, as irritated as I am with V2 crashing left and right, the main feature I'd be looking for is STABILITY and the ability to capture a larger recording without the software choking.
I have a 12-slide demo that crashes every time I try to end the recording session right now, in demo mode with auto captions.
Grrrrrrr.....

The bit about the menus not working after an animation import until you click on a library object is also buggy.

Features are great but dependability is the foundation.

If this does what it says, I will certainly be upgrading

http://www.adobe.com/products/captivate/productinfo/upgrade/

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Animation effects
Create professional-looking learning content with support for animated slide transitions and Microsoft PowerPoint animations. Adobe Captivate 3 imports PowerPoint (PPT) files while converting PowerPoint slides into SWF files and retaining the animation effects.
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Rick and other pre-release testers - are you guys out of NDA yet and able to talk about the new features?

You think $299 is expensive for an upgrade which it is, feel for us in Europe who have to pay basically the dollar equivalent but double it.

Eg the upgrade for Captivate 3 is 287 pounds (not dollars) so its nearly double what you pay !

I do hope the 'send results by email' is fixed as theres training on the website on how to do this but it doesnt work.

Also hope that you can copy questions instead of having to create them by hand time after time as you cant duplicate question slides and i hope the annoying button on the results page wont take 10 seconds to move forward to the final page !

On the plus side the new question type (image) looks very good and of course the XML is excellent

The list of features is very nice. I wonder if the ability to right-click a mouse button has been added (I didn't see it, but hope springs eternal).

I would like to see a more reasonable upgrade price from version 2 to 3. I think $299.00 is a bit excessive.

I'd also like to see the package bundled in something like the Adobe Creative Suite.

TPK

Does anybody else think $299 is way too expensive for an upgrade between versions 2 and 3? Especially when you look at the list of differences between those two versions?

$299 sounds right to me for upgrading from 1 to 3, but I would think that upgrading between 2 and 3 would be about half that!

Been in the shadows too much lately... I wonder if the full motion recording is "fixed".

Quote from the email I recieved....
"Rapidly develop screen recordings and simulations
With Adobe Captivate 3, you can quickly capture your screen video
once and then generate three fully editable projects: a
demonstration, a practice simulation, and an assessment—all in one
single recording session!

Provide effective quizzes with question randomization
Adobe Captivate 3 now supports question randomization from question
pools. You can even apply answer shuffle and select from new
question types.

Get the most from Adobe Captivate
Find out about more new features such as Rollover Slidelet and
Microsoft PowerPoint® format animation import and experience other
uses of Adobe Captivate that will spur your own creativity and
imagination. Adobe Captivate empowers you to create many different
content types with flexible deployment options—without having to
learn Flash®. "

The XML input/output looks really cool. If it does what I think it will
do!!!


"Captiv8r" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:f81s48$plh$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> Hi all
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> Looks like Adobe has announced Captivate 3 will possibly begin shipping
as
> early as next month!
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>
http://digital50.com/news/items/BW/2001/07/14/20070722005012/adobe-introduces-ca
> ptivate.html
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> I see Adobe is now accepting preorders.
> http://www.adobe.com/products/captivate/
>
> Cheers all... Rick
>

We here of Brazil are already spreading the communities on the launch, certainly the best piece of news


Fabio Oliveira