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jeffatnip
Inspiring
January 8, 2016
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I am trying to export an MP4 from Captivate 9. Mac.

  • January 8, 2016
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Captivate 9 export to MP4 on Mac. The resulting video has good resolution, but it is flickering and has audio stopping and starting and timing problems when there is movement on stage.

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jessicaw25435810
jessicaw25435810
Participant
April 21, 2017

We are having the same problem- did you ever find a solution?

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jeffatnipAuthor
Inspiring
April 24, 2017

No, I never found a solution. I decided simply to never use Captivate in this manner... that is – distributing a video across multiple slides, adding transitions and exporting to mp4. Right now I can't even remember why I was doing this.

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jeffatnipAuthor
Inspiring
January 8, 2016

More info I should have added to the question:

Plays great when exported to swf or when exported to HTML5

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Captivate project contains imported mp4 video at 30 fps

publish video settings in captivate are:

profile: High

Level: 40

bitrate encoding: VBR, 1 Pass

Target Bitrate: 2

Max Bitrate: 4

Resolution: 1024 x 627

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Lilybiri
Lilybiri
Legend
January 8, 2016

Size of the published MP4? You inserted MP4's which is a compressed format, when publishing with CP you'll compress more.

BDuckWorks
BDuckWorks
Inspiring
January 8, 2016

Why such a resolution? Because that was what came off of the camera when I brought it into Adobe Premiere for editing.... and I am a beginner at this. Premiere has about a million different formats and I am easily intimidated by them. I tried exporting from Premiere at 15 fps and mono audio to make it smaller memory wise... then I went back to 30 fps to try and fix the flickering.


If you have access the the Premiere file you should go back in and export it at the same resolution as the Captivate file, 1024 x 627. You can make this smaller if you want the video to appear over the stage, as opposed to taking over the whole presentation. But, keep the frame rate the same as you captured, 30 fps is what I think you mentioned.

Ideally, for importing into Captivate, you should export from Premiere without compression, as you know Cp will compress it on export.

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