Can you suggest a UI size?

Report · Jan 06, 2016

Can anyone suggest a good Captivate 9 size I should work on for this project I am working on? Or, is it just a matter of preference. I figured I should ask from the pros.

Report · Jan 06, 2016

Are you talking about the resolution to choose when you create a cptx- or a cpvc project? Choose it depending on the users: which browser resolution will they use, go for the smallest one in your audience. Do not forget to take into account the real estate taken by the LMS or the browser window itself. If you add a TOC in separate mode and a playbar, you'll have also to calculate the space they take because everything has to fit in the monitor resolution. Of course, all those comments are for a normal project, not for a responsive project.

Report · Jan 06, 2016

Thanks. What is the difference between a cptx and a cpvc? I was told my a respected professional I should work at 1024 x 576 for now since I don't know what the viewers will be using. One more question. Does Adobe Captivate 9 have a revert option?

Thanks

Report · Jan 06, 2016

A cpvc-file is a video, best to be compared with what Camtasia is producing. No interaction, video screen capture where you can edit by panning/zooming, trimming, creating video clips with transitions, adding non-interactive objects like images, shapes, highlight boxes, adding audio. The quality is fine, but you can only publish to MP4 which is a video format. You can embed cpvc-slides into a cptx-project. CPVC has a dedicated editor which is different from the normal Captivate UI.

The normal Captivate project is a cptx-project: it is not built like a movie with one continuous timeline, but out of slides. Those slides can have video, can be the result of capturing a software simulation in the classical way etc. But the biggest difference is that those slides can have interactive objects, which means that a cptx-project is aimed at creating interactive courses, can have quizzes, branching based on assessments etc. Publishing a cptx-project to MP4 is possible, but a little bit contradictory because a movie format cannot have interactivity. Typical output formats for a cptx project is either Flash (SWF) or HTML5. You can also publish to exe or to an interactive pdf, but both are based on SWF as well. Since CP8 you can also create responsive cptx-projects.

Sorry, what do you mean by 'revert'? You have to check the option to create a backup file in Preferences. You can use CTRL-Z to undo as in all applications. Captivate has no 'history' like some other Adobe applications.

Report · Jan 06, 2016

Thank you for your answer.

By "revert" I mean, if I make 5 changes, can I choose "revert" to make the Adobe Captivate switch back to the previously saved version?

I'm glad you brought up the PDF file. How do I export Captivate 9 as a PDF file? When you say the exported PDF is based on the SWF does that mean it will require a Flash Plug-In? The potential client I am meeting wants my Captivate 9 file saved as a PDF.

I will work in the cptx mode for now.

Thank you for your help.