import swf into captivate 5

[Syed-CA]

Hello,

I am new to Captivate 5, my scenario is - I want to publish videos (swf) files on our help desk. Previously all such files were part of HTML pages which require registration.Importantly I got all those flash files by getting the path of the file from HTML pages (eg. I opened the source of HTML page and navigated to where the swf file is mentioned and cut paste it)

- Can I open existing swf files into Captivate 5

Regards

Syed

[Captiv8r]

Welcome to our community

Are you asking if Captivate will allow you to click File > Open and open one of these files and allow you to make edits to it?

If so, the answer is no, it will not allow that. You should be able to insert one of these files as an animation on a slide, but how well that may or may not work will depend on a number of factors.

Cheers... Rick

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[Syed-CA]

Thanks, I get an error when i insert that as a slide. We are in a process to publish all our existng videos on our support portal.Which were previously within HTML and required registration, and I am also not sure which version they are, so can you guide me in getting info on how this can be accomplished.

I opened a blank project and inserted that swf file through Insert->Animation Slide, and I get the following error

"Could not load the animation file. The file is either damaged or is not available at specified location"

Like I said, I got the file names from the HTML source page

[Lilybiri]

Hello,

Do not use Animation slide, but Insert Animation please. One possibility is that this was a SWF in Actionscript 2 version, whereas CP5 only supports AS3.

Lilybiri

[Syed-CA]

Hello Lily,

Found useful, also I just checked with my documentation team they use Robohelp to author help files, is there any way to convert to AS3 ? or use As is CP5

Syed,

[Lilybiri]

Hello,

This is not linked with RoboHelp... No way to convert an existing SWF to AS3. If you suspect that they are AS2, you should use Captivate 4 or earlier.

BTW: is there any interactivity in those SWF's? If not, perhaps convert them to video (MP4, AVI...)?

Lilybiri

[Syed-CA]

Hello,

Yes they are the demo for our product

Syed

[Lilybiri]

I do not know if you have Adobe Media Encoder, that could be used to convert the SWF's to FLV, which will be easily inserted in Captivate 5-files (Insert FLV or using the Video menu if you want slide video). If not, there are several converters available, some of them free. Try to Google for them,

Lilybiri