How do you upload a video to vimeo from adobe captivate with a table of contents?

Report · Feb 18, 2014

Report · Feb 19, 2014

Maybe you misunderstand the difference between an interactive output of Captivate (html5/SWF) that can have a TOC (can be used as navigation, is interactive) and a pure video output (MP4), where that table has no sense IMO? I see the same confusion in your other thread.

Lilybiri

Report · Feb 19, 2014

I understand that MP4 does not have the table of contents, but I am trying to figure out what format I can publish a captivate project in that I can then upload to Vimeo that will still have the table of contents. The videos about captivate on vimeo have a TOC, so there must be a format compatible with Vimeo that allows an interactive file type.

Do you know what that would be?

Report · Feb 19, 2014

Could you offer a link to such a video that has a TOC?

Report · Feb 19, 2014

I am not sure I understand. I need the video to be on vimeo and I dont believe you can put links to create a viemo video. Do you mean something else?

Report · Feb 19, 2014

I asked you because you wrote: "The videos about captivate on vimeo have a TOC, "

Please, post a link to such a video, so that I can see how it should be possible.

Report · Feb 19, 2014

I see -i apologize for the confusion. I cannot seem to find the video that I saw yesterday but it seemed it had the ability to click on links within the video. However, is it that Vimeo cannot handle interactive file types such as swf .exe, etc?

Report · Feb 19, 2014

It is normally all about video, AFAIK, just like YouTube but with a quality that could be labeled 'more professional'.

Report · Feb 19, 2014

okay - thank you! If anyone knows of a way to get an adobe captivate video with a table of contents on vimeo or youtube, please let me know!

Report · Feb 19, 2014

You would have to use screencast.com or something similar. Vimeo does not currently allow you to use interactive video. You can put times in the description which will create links to jump around in the video.

You have to remember that video is NOT interactive. Interactive video is just placing objects on top of the actual video.

Report · Feb 19, 2014

Where do you put the description that would allow you to put times in? Is it in captivate or in Vimeo?

Report · Feb 19, 2014

It's in Vimeo.

Report · Feb 19, 2014

okay - I will try this as a work around.

When I first starting building my captivate projects, soomeone from support mentioned that I should be able to load the whole project zip file to embed it in a website. Does anyone know how you would actually do that with the published project with an interactive video?

Thank you

Report · Feb 19, 2014

To me 'interactive video' is like trying to merge water and oil? Maybe you should explain what you mean by 'interactive' because it must be different from my ideas.

Report · Feb 19, 2014

Its a file that plays like a video but you can click through the table of contents. I have very little expereince with videos and all of this, but I am struggling to put our training site together and I basically created these projects in captivate and now need a way to embed them into the website. I apologize of the terminology is wrong, but this is all I am trying to achieve.

file:///C:/Users/kkies/1-%20Marketing%20Role/Solutions%20Cetner/Adobe%20Captivate%20Projects/final%20videos/ALP-%20Managing%20Cases/ALP-%20Managing%20Cases.htm

this is an example of what the project looks like, but I can also have it work in swf, .exe. pdf and htm - that is what I have figured out so far, but none of these will load to vimeo.

Report · Feb 20, 2014

In all cases where I have seen an "interactive video" the table of contents is NOT in the actual video. It's created as part of the web page that displays each of the videos that can be selected, or else its sitting in a DIV on a layer that sits ABOVE the video.

The person from "support" that spoke about uploading a zip file to a server that then played from a website may have been referring to SCORM content being played from an LMS. SCORM packages are usually always zip files that get uploaded to a server and then extracted on the server ready for delivery to end users. The Table of Contents in this case is also NOT in the video. It's buitl on the fly by the LMS according to the information contained in an XML file that accompanies the content inside the zip file.

Report · Feb 20, 2014

Thank you everyone. I am still trying to figure this out though. Below are all the files that I was told by captivate I would need to zip together to load on a site.

Any ideas which of these are the TOC? I undertsand that the TOC is not in the actual video, but I am trying to figure out if there is a way to create an output with that TOC that I can also upload to Vimeo.

If Vimeo is just a video site and does not support other layered files, is there a another site I could upload this type of file to and get embed code from?

Thank you,

Katherine

Report · Feb 20, 2014

You cannot upload anything but a video file to Vimeo (one file).

On Vimeo you will have options to create a non-customizable TOC only displaying time of the chapters in your video.

But since you ask, the TOC is inside of the SWF file.

Report · Feb 20, 2014

TOC is embedded in the SWF (or in the pdf, which has a SWF embedded and is an alternative). The MP4's are video clips, probably called by the SWF, when it is launched from the HTML file that uses the CSS (styles) and calls also the JS (for interactions).

I don't understand why you should have to include the pdf in the zipped file?

Report · Feb 20, 2014

I think the pdf was just part of the output so it stayed in the folder. I do not think it is necessary.

I will try to use the TOC in Vimeo.

Thank you!

Report · Feb 20, 2014

Can I ask why you are deadset on using Vimeo or YouTube. If you published that package on a normal webserver you would get what you are looking for.

Report · Feb 20, 2014

I was not originally, but I am using a site called Knowledge base from Salesforce and they only allow embed code from YouTube, DailyMotion or Vimeo. I am totally open to another way of publishing videos and if you know of a way to publish to a site like this, i would be forever grateful. Basically the constraint was coming from Salesforce Knowledge Base, because this seemed like the most straightforward option. However, if we can get them in this site, without using the standard embed code, that would be great too.

Thanks