Can I capture more than 10 minutes?

Forum|Forum|18 years ago
August 16, 2007
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We'd like to use Captivate to record our screencast demos in meetings. These are often an hour long.

Captivate has a 10 minute recording limit it appears. Is there a way to script captivate to save off every 10 minutes and keep recording?

Or is there a different product I should be considering?

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benhenny

Inspiring

I've recorded for long periods of time - probably 15min or more at a time - with no issues. However, I don't recommend that, because Captivate has an upredictable nature and can destroy your work at a whim. For this reason, I try not to exceed 5 min at a time - even if I'm going to string it all together later.

Save often. Back up the files as you go. Cap_01, Cap_02, Cap_3, etc.

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Anonymous

darreldarrel , if you talking about the Full Motion Recording in Captivate 3. I was able to capture a ~1hr how-to presentation. Cap3 appears to save in 19sec chucks (animated slides) as min. if the presenter did alot of motion on a page, then it saved more to that animated slide. so i had 160 animated slides for the 1hr presentation. the save project file was about 440MB (800x600 res) with audio. and 73MB published.

when Cp3 is recording the full animation, you should see the Cp icon with a red flashing dot in the taskbar.

KCWebPlaza-5meuTi

Inspiring

I don't know your subject matter or audience, but in my experience, adult learners have a hard time with presentations over 10 minutes. My adult learning experience suggests "chunking" your content into 3-5 minute modules makes the training much more digestable - and retention is increased. You can offer your users a menu to navigate between the modules - and allow them to browse to the material they really need. Plus, a 10 minute movie will make the Captivate .cp file HUGE.

CatBandit

Inspiring

Erik said...

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Could it be that after 10 minutes the OP is running out of HD space?

I tend to thing Erik might be right. Seems to me that for the average working PC hard disc, an hour of video would be a very, very large file ... and other resources such as RAM and the video card might be taxed to limits also.

That said, CP3 is said to be capable of long full-motion recordings, and I have never seen anything official stating how much might be too much, so...

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darreldarrelAuthor

Participant

Oh!? Is the 10 minute limit merely a limitation of the trial version then?

Captiv8r

Legend

Hi darreldarrel

Are you using the Captivate 3 trial? It sounds as if you are.

To my knowledge, the trial is not crippled in any way save for the ability to use it for 30 days. That and the fact that it automatically configures an expiration date on anything you create using the trial. You can't change the expiration until you get the full version. But I could be wrong about that. I never was able to install and test the trial on my own PC. This is the way the trial worked in versions past. So I'm assuming this was left alone. To change this behavior would be news to me.

Cheers... Rick

Captiv8r

Legend

Hi all

I stand corrected on the trial limitations. I just downloaded and installed the trial on a virgin PC and I see that version 3 even allows you to change the expiration date. It is also not enabled by default. I'm guessing this has to do with the more stringent and capable licensing that is being used.

Cheers and happy Friday! Rick

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DilbertG

Adobe Employee

Hi darreldarrel,

With Captivate 3, this limit is no more, and you can record for much higher durations.

thanks

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