Save Captivate file into mp4

Report · Nov 11, 2023

I developed a quiz in Captivate and published it. But I can't save it in mp4 format to post to students.

Report · Nov 11, 2023

You need to understand that MP4 video is not an interactive format suitable for a quiz.

If you sent a quiz question as a video, how would your users interact with it to choose the correct answer?

Report · Nov 12, 2023

Welcome to the forum. Is my suspicion correct that you are new to Captivate and using the most recent version 12? At this moment two versions are supported simultaneously on one license;: version 12 and Captivate Classic. It helps to provide you with answers if you mention the version you are using. The full version number can be found under Help, about Captivate.

You don't 'save as' in Captivate: you have the raw Captivate file which you have edited, created the quiz. That project can be published to a format to enable it to distribute to your learners. The content of such a published format is not the same. Just one simple example: graphics will be compressed same as audio files (from WAV to MP3). The video format MP4 for publishing is only possible if you created a non-responsive project which is impossible with version 12. Hence the lack of publishing to MP4.

Moreover, as Rod points out, MP4 is a passive video format. Passive means that nothing can be changed while viewing the output. For a quiz you'll expect that the learner can answer questions and see the result, the score or even have that score registered in a Learning Management system. Interactivity is impossible in MP4 format. Play/pause video is not considered to be an interactivity.

How to provide the quiz to your learners? You will need to publish to HTML5. The result is like a website. You need to upload the output folder to a webserver and provide the learners with the URL pointing to the index.html file. Here is an example. I use part of my domain (lilybiri.com/published) as webserver:

https://www.lilybiri.com/published/InteractivityBlog/index.html

Do not hesitate to ask more questions, but please mention the full version number.

Report · Feb 28, 2025

Lilybiri

Your example is exactly what I need my quiz to do that I made from captivate 12.5. I have no idea how to do this and it is for a class I am taking for my masters. I am so frustrated. I have spent 2 days trying to figure this out and it beyond my understanding. Is there anyway to explain this in super simple terms step by step to me....I am so new to this that I do not even understand the launguage.

Report · Feb 28, 2025

@Thomas38493139pss6 ,

When you publish from Adobe Captivate, it will generate a ZIP file (and/or a folder that contains additional files and folders). Let's assume you use the ZIP file and that you know what a zip file is. When you extract the published ZIP file into a new folder, it contains multiple files and folders (with additional files/folders). One of the files in the root of the zip file is probably a file called index.html. This is the launch file, as you can also see from @Lilybiri's URL/example.

What Lilybiri did was then to take all of the files and folders and copy them to her webserver. This is what you'd need to do, too. However, it seems as if you are trying to push these files to Wix. As I indicated on a different thread, it's not clear that you can actually just copy your own files / file structure to Wix. Wix is more of a website designer and it may limit what types of files you can upload to their platform.

As I suggested, if you are using Captivate 12, you may want to use the Share for Review feature to push your content to a server that other people can view. Have you reviewed this; and/or do you need more information on how to use Share for Review?

-Andrew