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grembert1
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January 27, 2010
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Importing From Camtasia

  • January 27, 2010
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I am a new developer to the Captivate 4 community.  My first challenge in putting together an eLearning solution is to import screen capture material from Camtasia.  The submitting source only know Camtasia and refuses to use Captivate 4 because there is no interface for a MAC environment.  What format should he export and what format should I use to import.  Thank you in advance for any answers.

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Hamlet615
Participating Frequently
February 4, 2011

I inserted a SWF file (generated in Camtasia 7.1 by another tech writer) in a Captivate 5 project. The SWF (from Camtasia) doesn't have any nagivation or controls. It's just a recorded event of mouse movements clicking this or that button on an application. I inserted this SWF as an animation on a blank slide in Captivate 5, and so far it's working well.

However, when I inserted the SWF into Captivate 5, I did get a dialog box indicating that the SWF (from Camtasia) was based on ActionScript 2 and that Captivate 5 uses ActionScript 3, which could lead to some unstable performance. But I went ahead and published the output (exported to HTML and set to Flashplayer 10). Again, the published output from Captivate 5 doesn't have any playback problems. It's just a seamless playback.

In Captivate 5's Publish dialog box, I noticed that the ActionScript setting was defaulted to version 3 (can this even be changed to version 2?). So the entire project got published in ActionScript 3. But, in the long run, will the different ActionScripts cause problems for other users?

Lilybiri
Lilybiri
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February 4, 2011

Captivate 5 is AS3 only.

Lilybiri

Captiv8r
Captiv8r
Legend
January 27, 2010

Hi there

I'm not sure exactly what you are asking here.

Is it:

A: You are using Camtasia, and you want to know how to take the Captivate output and use it in Camtasia.

B: You used Camtasia to create a video and now want to know how you can use that in Captivate.

Cheers... Rick

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grembert1Author
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January 27, 2010

Rick, Thanks for the quick response on my post. In answer to your questions, the answer is both. We are doing a course in advanced Illustrator where the instructor demonstrates the various aspects of the lesson. He is a diehard MAC user and wants to do the screen capture in Camtasia because they have an interface to the MAC platform. I want to stay with Captivate 4 because of integration with all of Adobe and consistency with the projects I am generating. So, the question revolves around how can I use his output in my format?

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grembert1Author
Participating Frequently
January 28, 2010

A quick word of caution. You can't be sure that Camtasia SWFs will work flawlessly when imported into Captivate. If you use the Camtasia navigation and controls then it will almost certainly not work.

In order to get the Camtasia SWFs to work in your Captivate project you will almost certainly need to create a loader widget in Flash to load these animations into Captivate at run-time.

I just tested this for another user and if I imported the Camtasia animation into Captivate directly it didn't work. However if I used a widget to load in the Camtasia animation then it worked just fine.

/Michael

Visit my Captivate blog with tips & tricks, tutorials and Widgets.


Thank you for your comments. One question though. At the bottom of the email you made a reference to a site that was advertising a "domain lock widget". What's the connection between that and my issue? Is this how the material should be imported into Captivate?

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