Captivate 9 and playing video from the library

[Gray Susan]

Is there a way to have the video on a slide the a project play from the library where its been imported to and not from a folder on the computer?  We've imported the video to the library and when it is dragged to the slide the Event Video window opens.  The event video window shows a path to the computer folder and not the project library.  After you've set it up it then goes and republishes the video instead of using the published one added to the project.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Susan

[Lilybiri · Accepted solution]

Susan, I have problems understanding your question. The Library is not included when you publish a Captivate project. The objects used from the Library will be included but not all in the same way because not everything is loaded when you start a course (probably because it would take too long, is already longer in HTML than in SWF). Audio and video clips are loaded On Entering the slide where they are used. When you look at the published folder you'll see the subfolders 'ar' (audio clips) and 'vr' (video clips). None of thos clips is pointing to the folder on your system.

It is the last sentence that confuses me "...republishes the video instead of using the published one added to the project"?

[Gray Susan]

What I meant was that during the publishing of the project the Media Encoder Opens and appears to be republishing the video. Thanks for clearing up the other part about where it is calling from. Susan

[Lilybiri]

It depends on the format of the video, and of the Captivate output. If you uploaded a mp4 with the correct codec, and publish to HTML, the AME will not be opened. If you publish to SWF for the same situation, it will open because the video will be converted to FLV.

[Gray Susan]

What would be the correct Codec?

I think my coworker's problem is (Well one of them) is that he's still publishing his projects as a .swf.

Thanks for the help.

Susan

[Lilybiri]

I just use AME directly to encode to MP4 when I need a video. That is the best practice, because everyone will have to say Goodbye to SWF publishing. Do not wait for the EOL of Flash player, browsers start to disable it already in the most recent versions.

[Erik Lord]

If you publish a video as MP4 with the h.264 codec, then CP should not only import it without issue, but also not need to launch AME on publish.

However, I'm not sure there's a way to import a video INTO Captivate so there's no more reliance on the external video.

You could in Flash. You might be able to if you do it as a multi-slide video..

Working with multi-slide synchronized videos in Adobe Captivate

(I rarely import that way so have forgotten)

However, once you save and publish, CP should be smart enough to publish the video into the published folder, so it carries with the final project...and not be reliant on the developer's actual workstation path anymore