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s_amoraal87
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December 30, 2016
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Create-your-own-adventure video?

  • December 30, 2016
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Hello,

I'm not shure this is the right forum, this is my question:

I want to make an interactive video what the seem to call: Create-your-own-adventure video.

Exemples are on this site: Interactieve video - Videomarketing

Can i create this with Adobe software? If so, wich software?

It's important to me that it can be played as well on the computer as well as a smartphone.

Who can help me?

Thank you!

Sjaak

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    Correct answer Lilybiri

    StoryLine has a totally different UI, and certainly doesn't have more functionality than Captivate. For someone who is familiar with the Adobe UI and likes to have all the roundtripping possibilities of Captivate (Photoshop, Illustrator, Audition, PhoneGap, Animate CC...). I don't think SL would be a good choice. Moreover for pure HTML publishing, Lectora is a much more powerful concurrent of Captivate. None of those authoring tools are meant for simple interactive videos, they may be overkill.   I like Lectora, but not for screen recording. StoryLine misses some essential features like a Library, too much based on copy/paste and not on efficient reuse of assets. Of course it has no roundtripping with Adobe apps which is for me personally one of the reasons I am sticking with Captivate.

    I have created interactive videos with Captivate, but as I told before this is a much more powerful tool than only for such output.

    Captivate ships with a companion application, Video Demo which is a concurrent for the screen recording tool Camtasia. For pure video video tutorials about software, Camtasia could be an alternative, it has more bells and whistles but also another UI. Here is an old example of a video which I created myself with Video Demo:

    Simple versus Standard Advanced Action in Adobe Captivate - YouTube

    Adobe also has Presenter, which is a Win only plugin for PPT (like iSpring and Articulate Presenter). Presenter has also a companion file which is also available for Mac: Video Xpress, which is a very simple screen recording tool for quick creation of software video. It will not only record the screen but also the presenter, and you'll be able to use PIP in the editor where you want. There are plenty of examples of video tutorials on YouTube for Captivate. Here is one link;:

    What's New in Adobe Captivate 9 - YouTube

    I understand that you would like to have Captivate in the CC, which is not the case (and fear it will not happen soon). You can download a fully functional trial version. Contrary to the CC trials, this trial is valid for 30 days.

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    s_amoraal87Author
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    December 31, 2016

    Thank you both!

    I will look into it.

    it's a pitty that it's not part of CC.

    Is there other software, that you know of, that can help me with what i want to achieve?

    thanks again!

    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
    Brainiac
    December 30, 2016

    Interactive video is more limited than the true interactive tutorials you can create with Adobe Captivate. The term 'interactive video', as far as I understood is just a way of being able to navigate to specific parts of a video. With Captivate interactivity goes a lot further, and the result if you create a responsive project can play on different devices. That means that you can change the layout to be more acceptable for the small browser resolutions of a phone screen, compared with the experience on a tablet or a laptop. As a former professor, I'm not convinced at all that the same course is suited for all screen resolutions, from a pedagogical viewpoint, but that is another question.

    You can see examples of what I mean by interactivity in the movies embedded in a quite a lot of my blog posts. Here are some links:

    Drag&Drop in 2016 with Captivate 9 - Captivate blog

    Custom Hotspot questions in Captivate 8 - Captivate blog

    Playtime with Audio and Widgets - Captivate blog

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    David Arbor
    Inspiring
    December 31, 2016

    Articulate Storyline is a competitor to Captivate: Build Highly Interactive E-Learning Courses with Storyline 360

    Lilybiri
    LilybiriCorrect answer
    Brainiac
    January 1, 2017

    StoryLine has a totally different UI, and certainly doesn't have more functionality than Captivate. For someone who is familiar with the Adobe UI and likes to have all the roundtripping possibilities of Captivate (Photoshop, Illustrator, Audition, PhoneGap, Animate CC...). I don't think SL would be a good choice. Moreover for pure HTML publishing, Lectora is a much more powerful concurrent of Captivate. None of those authoring tools are meant for simple interactive videos, they may be overkill.   I like Lectora, but not for screen recording. StoryLine misses some essential features like a Library, too much based on copy/paste and not on efficient reuse of assets. Of course it has no roundtripping with Adobe apps which is for me personally one of the reasons I am sticking with Captivate.

    I have created interactive videos with Captivate, but as I told before this is a much more powerful tool than only for such output.

    Captivate ships with a companion application, Video Demo which is a concurrent for the screen recording tool Camtasia. For pure video video tutorials about software, Camtasia could be an alternative, it has more bells and whistles but also another UI. Here is an old example of a video which I created myself with Video Demo:

    Simple versus Standard Advanced Action in Adobe Captivate - YouTube

    Adobe also has Presenter, which is a Win only plugin for PPT (like iSpring and Articulate Presenter). Presenter has also a companion file which is also available for Mac: Video Xpress, which is a very simple screen recording tool for quick creation of software video. It will not only record the screen but also the presenter, and you'll be able to use PIP in the editor where you want. There are plenty of examples of video tutorials on YouTube for Captivate. Here is one link;:

    What's New in Adobe Captivate 9 - YouTube

    I understand that you would like to have Captivate in the CC, which is not the case (and fear it will not happen soon). You can download a fully functional trial version. Contrary to the CC trials, this trial is valid for 30 days.

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    David Arbor
    Inspiring
    December 30, 2016

    I don't know how the video in the example you linked to was made, but Adobe Captivate (not part of Creative Cloud) will allow you to create an interactive project that can be mobile-friendly. Premiere is not designed to create a product like that.

    Here's a link to the Captivate forum, hopefully they can help you: Adobe Captivate

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