PowerPoint

[mindforge]

Hi,

I have a Presenter and Captivate question.

Does Presenter appear as a menu item in the tool bar of PowerPoint once installed on your computer?

If I have Captivate do I need PowerPoint? Can you build slides directly in Captivate, add animation and multimedia, quiz types etc.?

Just trying to understand why someone would want to have both Presenter and Captivate...how they work together, or why you would pick-up one tool over the other.

Thanks!

[Mr_TD]

Hi Mind Forge,

we used to have Presenter and Articulate, but since we are using Captivate 5 we dropped this workflow.

But still we have to retouch all slides, because the import of PPT files does not really give you controloverthe slides.

We created a workflow and we are way faster than in Articulate times.

And you actually do not need PowerPoint if start creating eLearnings.

Best TD

[Bewitched_future1549]

Are you using Office 2007?  That's what I use and Presenter appears as a tab at the top.

I have both Captivate and Presenter as part of the eLearning Suite.  I mostly use Captivate but have recently used Presenter for a couple of projects.  The reason is that many of our subject matter experts have presentations in PowerPoint that they want to quickly make available online.  Typically, I have always converted using Captivate.  Recently, though, I was given a PowerPoint that had hyperlinks to other slides throughout.  When I brought it into Captivate, none of the hyperlinks worked.  On a lark, I thought I'd try Presenter.  In Presenter, they worked flawlessly.  So, for those particular lessons, I'm putting them into Presenter.  Other than that, I don't know why/how people are using Presenter alone or with Captivate.  I'd be curious to hear about others' experiences, though.

In my opinion, if I was going with one or the other, I'd go with Captivate because it gives me more flexibility.  Presenter seems to strictly be used for PowerPoint built courses.  (Admittedly, though, my use/experience with Presenter is VERY limited, so I may be off base there)  In Captivate, there are a lot more tools and you can add a lot more interactivity to what you are building. (again, that's been my experience...)

[Lilybiri]

Hello,

Once I answered in a thread to this question,have a look at:

http://forums.adobe.com/message/2779716#2779716

Must add to this that for the moment the collaboration between Presenter and Captivate that I did use is not possible until Presenter has upgraded to Actionscript 3.

Presenter is indeed a plugin for Powerpoint. But it adds powerful audio and quizzing features.

Lilybiri

[Bewitched_future1549]

Great advice/insight in that post, Lilybri.  Thank you!

Here is RJ's blog that is referenced there:  http://rjacquez.com/adobe_captivate_and_adobe_pres/

(apparently, it moved - took me awhile to find it...)

[mindforge]

All,

Thank you very much! Your answers and links to RJ's demo of the integration of a Captivate self running software demo and branching scenario in a Presenter skin was extremely interesting.

Best

[Bewitched_future1549]

I thought RJ's demo was cool too...but, it raised another question for me.  I have Captivate 5 as part of the eLearning Suite 2 and also Presenter 7.  BUT, it's my understanding that Captivate 5 ONLY uses ActionScript 3 and that Presenter only publishes as AS2.  (in the demo, RJ was using Captivate 4)  So, am I correct in saying that I won't be able to use the two together as it is shown/recommended in that demo?  That is disappointing to say the least!

[Lilybiri]

Fine, hope you did see in my answer that this workflow (described in RJ's post) is not possible for the moment with Captivate 5 in combination with Presenter 7 because of the incompatibility of the Actionscript versions? I really hope that Presenter will upgrade soon,

Lilybiri

[Bewitched_future1549]

Oops!  Just saw that...I'm a little slow this morning.

I very much agree...hope they will update it soon!!

[mindforge]

Hi,

I thought I saw RJ display a window setting with an AS2 and AS3 button. He said to click AS2.

Now, I am confused. Are you saying that you can't integrate a CP5 SWF into a Presenter 7 presentation?

[mindforge]

Hi,

The AS2/AS3 selection is around 6:25minutes into the video inserting Captivate projects in Adobe Presenter.

This seems to imply that you can publish a SWF from Captivate in AS2 or AS3

Thoughts?

[Bewitched_future1549]

He's using Captivate 4 in the demo which lets you choose AS2 or AS3.  But, with Captivate 5 (which is what I have) you can ONLY use AS3.

[Captiv8r]

Hi there

Captivate 4 is what the video is describing. Captivate 5 is a whole new species of animal. It knows nothing about AS2.

Cheers... Rick

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[mindforge]

Hi,

Gotcha. That is strange Adobe removed that AS2/AS3 SWF publishing feature on CP5. Especially since Presenter 7 ships with the E-Learning Suite and only supports AS2.

Thanks everyone, your comments are most helpful.