Say Hello to the all-new Adobe Captivate!

Did you ever create a responsive project in Captivate Classic? It is possible to create a fluid box at the bottom or the top to insert a logo indeed, even on a master slide (except the main master slide which cannot be used in a Fluid Boxes project). It is possible there, and you are correct that at this moment that is a lot of trial and error in the new Captivate. Especially SVGs have gotten lot more limitations.

Hi Basla, nice that you were on that call! Was there anything else interesting that you can share with us?

Re your question, it is -very- risky to use software after it is unsupported--bugs, security patches, updates to become compatible with new hardware and interent demands... I think of it this way: There is good reason that there are constant patches, updates, and versions, much of which we don't even know is being updated because with a subscription-based cloud-based thing, it "Just Magically Happens" in the back room. 🙂

Here is my personal opinion though - Cp 2019 is for now a superior tool, and many professionals are staying with it and refusing to use the "New Captivate" until enough bugs are worked out. So if I were you, as a pro in an organization, I would keep using 2019 for a little while, but not too long :-). In your (and your org's) shoes, I would build all new courses in the New Captivate, not right away, but for sure within a year or so. This way you'll have a chance to get accustomed to the new software, and your "older courses" created in Cp 2019 will still be on supported software for a couple of years.

And I honestly do think that Adobe will get Cp2023 (Is that how we should call it? I am unsure! I saw others call it Cp 12 so I was also using that term...) up tp snuff. They are working hard and the engineers are taking bug reports and feature requests seriously. (Honestly, I think Adobe knows that if they don't pull it together then folks are going to switch to 360! Do a 180 and run to 360, haha!)

This is all just my opinion! 🙂 Stick with 2019 for the short term, but soon, when the New Captivate is useable, start using it. What do you think? And what do others here think?

-Lisa

p.s. I think what some people don't realize is, I am pretty sure that the new Captivate is not even just an update or modification to previous versions, but a Whole Entire New From Scratch product, where Adobe was not even at much of an advantage over some random startup in terms of having a base of code from which to work. So I think that even though we've all been impatient for it to be released, my beliefe and hope is that now, it wll be fixed. It really is still in beta mode in my opinion. We are the beta users! 🙂 So for you in your org, you prob cannot afford the time to be a beta user. Me, I can, because I d not have 2019 and cannot use it because of M1 incompatibility--so I am starting my new career on this new software!

Hi,

Please try deleting the below folders on MAc and try again:

* On Mac:* /Users/Shared/Adobe/eLearning Assets and
* /Users/Shared/Adobe/Installer

Yes,it is supported.

You are supposed not to control, but let Captivate control (sorry, couldn't wait to release that sarcastic statement, my complaint about a lot of control loss compared with previous versions).

You don't tell which type of video you inserted, I suspect it is slide video? In that case insert a bookmark as close as possible to the start (I managed 0.1sec) and choose the action 'Pause Timeline'.

I logged that bug during the prerelease: contrary to the former versions, Best Fit will not adapt when you open the Timeline panel (which also can become so big that it covers the whole stage). Best fit is the default setting, you have to change it manual to a smaller resolution. One positive point: shortcut keys still work for that.

BTW Upvoting an answer in such a long and diverse thread will not at all guarantee that the team sees this. I wished the former way to log bugs and requests were still available from the eLearning community but I am not even able to post anything since many months.

Additionanal: I've also installed it on my Mac Studio - no issues there.

This is a question for the staff in the first place. I just pop in with a small tip because I have both CP2019 and version 12 installed on a system. Of course you need admin rights for installation, but make sure you first update your CP2019 version to 11.8.2 (can be done using the Update under the Help menu).

Than download the installation file, but only from the US site:

https://www.adobe.com/products/captivate.html

Underwhelmed is an understatement!
After working on the beta for many months, the long awaited (fanfare suppressed) version that is already causing confusion with its name is here. It's not Captivate. It's not even close. It's the toy you play with when you're bored, not on a deadline and don't have some serious eLearning to develop. And why do I say that?

Here's why.

1. Massively reduced compatibility - must have latest version of MacOS to run. Crashes all the time.
2. Reduced workflow capability -  unable to undock panels to place on other screens.
3. UX - no consistency with naming conventions, control areas, process and publishing. 
4. I guess this is UX/UI but having to do so many clicks to get what you want is annoying as hell.
5. Inability to position and stack objects where you want them - that's the dealbreaker for me. 
6. Flaky behaviour - crashes while doing seemingly unrelated tasks. Doesn't autosave pre-crash.
7. What Asset library?
8. Object styles, master pages and themes. There's a notion towards it, but I wouldn't consider the effort useful at all. Expecting people to remake stuff from scratch all the time is ridiculous. You must think we have all the time in the world and no deadlines. Dealbreaker.
9. Adobe seems to think that we all need a fully responsive layout instead of the features we've had for ages.
   Fact: 90% of my market don't deliver to a mobile environment so all this "how cool is it that we can engage in an eLearning course while we're on the train" is complete BS.
   When you have clients that have huge network security (think Govt.) they wouldn't allow this anyway.
   Anyone in the business knows that targeting Desktop OS and browser platforms is hard enough, but having to manage all the drama that comes with targeting mobile platforms is in many cases a complete waste of time and effort.
10. I have a huge library of really useful Javascript functions that allow me to add great value to my eLearning applications. 
    You guessed it - that's unusable with the latest version too.

There are plenty more things that irritate me about Charm (I refuse to call it 'Captivate', 'The New Captivate', or anything else that uses that word), but surprisingly I did see one thing that I really like about it. Just one:
The ability to create Bookmarks (c'mon Adobe, just call 'em cuePoints like everyone else does) and actually assign actions to those cuepoints. It means that as the timeline plays, you can trigger actions, call Javascript functions etc.
About time.

So shoot me, Adobe. I really thought you were going to come out with something flash and greatly improved. 
I will continue to support my clients that have CP2019 projects until it is given a decent burial, but right now there's no way I could suggest to them that we continue with whatever this new iteration is.  Most of what you see here is available on Kando and other platforms.
If I have to install Parallels and run Windows and Storyline 360 on my Mac, I will. If I can get better UX, UI and still get fully responsive layouts then I could even use an open source tool like Tumult Hype.
But one thing I'm sure of is that I will continue sending you a bunch of money every month for my CC subscription and my CP2019 subscription while it lasts. But unless you give us some hope that you're able to at least match the capabilities of CP2019 I reckon me an thousands of eLearning developers will be like rats on the Titanic. Running like crazy.

And for those of you that think that I'm just some crazy old coot with nothing else to do but complain, I'll say that I've been using Captivate since before it was Captivate. I've been in this industry longer than some of you have been alive, and I really, truly was hoping that after such a long wait, with missed deadlines and broken promises littering the floor, that we'd have something to work with that was better than we have already.

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