Working with Captivate 1 & 2

Thanks guys.

I think we will go down this road, as it it the only alternative we have, and from some brief testing it seemed to work quite well, although we just wanted to confirm that we werent going to be losing out on anything worth while.

As for the Vista problems that we are encountering, we we have been in touch with Adobe on a couple of occassions but have not received any reply at all (even with the detailed information we supplied, including error codes)

Mark - I'll send you some information on what exactly is happening, and if you or Rick would like, i could even set up a remote session for you to actually 'use' one of the computers here remotely, to reproduce the bug, although i dont know what would happen when captivate crashes (we use remote viewing quite often for tech support but still see crashes, so i dont think that would be a problem)

Thanks again to you both

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(having a quick glance at the Captivate 2 features on the adobe site, it would appear that the majority of the new features take effect after the capturing has been done, ie adding flash video, timeline effects etc. Can you clarify?)

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Even though I am not Captiv8r I know that Rick won't mind if I add one more to his list.

4. In Adobe Captivate 2, there isn't really any limit on how much full motion recording you capture. It is now really up to the user and the performance of your system. If you have a very long amount of full motion recording the footage is simply split into multiple slides. By Default Full Motion Recording mode is automatically triggered when you perform a drag, drag and drop or use your mouse wheel to scroll as you would expect these options can be turned off via the Recording Options dialog box (Project > Recording options...)

You can manually turn on Full Motion Recording mode by pressing F9 on your keyboard and F10 to switch back to Captivate's default capturing mode.

Personally, I would strongly suggest that wherever possible you try and avoid using full motion recording, since this will increase the overall size of your Captivate 2 projects. But it is a new feature in Adobe Captivate 2 so there you go.

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We have recently purchased several licences of Captivate 2 for our Vista production systems. However Captivate 2 does not work as it should on Vista at this time and as such we are looking at other options in order to allow us to continue with our projects.

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. As I have mentioned in a previous post, Adobe Captivate 2 has been tested with Vista, however Vista is still prelease software, a detailed list of the sort of problems you are encountering and screen shots of any error messagse you are encountering would be extremely useful.

You can send screen shots to the web address I have listed below -
http://dropbox.yousendit.com/macrofireball

Regards,
Mark

Hi cptv8

I'm not sure why you say this is a question for me. Of course I'm more than happy to help where I can. But by no means am I the lone "keeper of the keys" when it comes to Captivate knowledge. There are a great many of us here. Larry and Paul and Steve and Mark (community experts) and many others we see popping in from time to time.

Well, there are a few features that are new to the recording process for Captivate 2. In no particular order:

1. During recording, ability to record in "Real time". As we know, as Captivate takes screen captures, they are often timed for three seconds. We could theoretically start a Captivate recording session, walk away from the PC after the session has started, then return 45 minutes later and continue. But that first slide would still probably be only 3 seconds long. With the "Real time" option, Captivate attempts to set the slides to match the length of time you waited before clicking an option. However, if you were recording in version 1, then editing in version 2, you could simply adjust timings to compensate for this.

2. During recording, you have the ability in version 2 to press the Pause key to pause the recording process. Presumably, this would be used in conjunction with what I listed earlier.

3. Captivate 2 provides the ability to automatically insert Text Entry Box objects while recording. Again, these can be added after the fact. In fact, "after the fact" was the ONLY way to add these beasties in version 1.

Those are about the only changes that come to mind that affect recording. So I believe your approach is probably a good one with using versions 1 and 2 together.

Cheers... Rick