Captivate and Creative Cloud

[paulk7737514]

Why is Captivate not included in the Creative Cloud subscription? I pay 50 smackers a month for CC and would like to experiment with Captivate but can't afford another 30 smackers on top of that.

[Captiv8r]

You will have to ask Adobe on that one. They are in charge of their own business decisions.

Cheers... Rick

[paulk7737514]

[mark@headTrix]

its a bit frustrating I know, and many of the adobe apps integrate with Captivate very well. I recently presented about 10 Hacks While using Captivate and the Creative Cloud at Adobe Learning Summit.... but it seems to make sense to use them. I was confused about it as well..... CC Libraries are now integrated so that is pretty neat! And a bunch of Adobe apps integrate very well or have round-trip editing capabilities. Some really cool features like importing Photoshop files.

But to answer your question ..... they are a business..... and the point is to make money.

So lets say they have 500 Captivate Subscriptions, that's $15,000 per month, or $180,000 per year. If they added Captivate to the Creative Cloud now...... they would be giving away $180,000 per year.... and I assume they have a lot more than 500 subscriptions!

For CC users, we would get ANOTHER free app --- which we are getting with the new XD, Dimension, Character Animator, CC Libraries, Adobe Stock, Lightroom CC, to name a few,  and a whole new set coming our way. But they would just lose money.

I guess it started out separate, as a Macromedia application, and now it seems like its just not cost effective to add it?

just my two cents.... I'm sure they have a bunch of reasons....

cheers!
mark