David Burnham HBA
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David Burnham HBA
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‎Mar 07, 2019
11:36 AM
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Hey AnotherMe: Here's another story. I am an educator, a former School Superintendent, and one of the original Certified Adobe Instructors in North America. In 1995. Certification was a much more stringent process that what is required today. I was privileged to have met the founders of Adobe and worked with them and provided feedback as how we as educators could help them growth their business by providing high quality instruction. I have seen the Adobe educational business go from high end face to face training to the mash-up we have today. Just to let you know, I personally work in Captivate and Storyline but also Photoshop, Audition, InDesign, Premiere, Framemaker, Acrobat, LiveCycle, my partner After Effects, Premiere, Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign, and my son Priemiere, Photoshop, Flash, Animate, Unity, Illustrator, Maya and to say the least we taught a few thousand class participants in public and custom classes over the last 25 years. I realized a few years ago that the change was afoot. Our good friends at Adobe decided to get into the training business, essentially in competition with ACI's. They started offering training and countless video tutorials on their website for products, and now of course these are right in their software. Our compatriot Lynda and her husband Bruce, started pay for video training, which many have copied. Good for them they sold out to LinkedIn. Then of course we saw the rise of the the You Tubers. So all what I called noise was occurring in the industry all at the same time. So how did I resolve to meet the changes that impacted the training industry that I helped shape and grow for Adobe. I decided that it was time to refocus and use the broad range of skills that I possess elsewhere. I simply broadcast my skills and availability and sure enough received numerous offers. That's one of the things that I find interesting is the skill level demonstrated on a lot of the Adobe product forums. If the level of questions that are being asked reflect the current state of the competition, if you have somewhat decent skills, you should have nothing to worry about. Today, I enjoy the people I work with and have fun using the Adobe tools in a creative way. I still offer Adobe and Articulate training at a custom and team level. The neat part is that age is irrelevant in the digital world. Don't let that get you down. Improve your range of skills to work with all aspects of digital media. Stretch your mind as well as your skill set. I started in the industry in my mid 40's following the reorganization of the Ontario school system in the early 90's and as I said have been at it for well over 25 years. Bonne chance in your future endeavours.
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‎Mar 04, 2019
09:11 AM
This is a question for Adobe Captivate Technical Staff to answer as Adobe indicates that Captivate is vetted and works with Inquizig.
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‎Feb 26, 2019
03:22 PM
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From Premiere you export through Adobe Media encoder: export to .H264 (mp4) - maintain your 16:9 but output at a size that would fit the slide or a portion of the slide - you could help reduce band width by reducing the frame rate from 29.9 to say 24 say full motion video or 15 frames / second simple talking head - again to reduce file size could look at mono output - rather than stereo and reduce the Hz from 44000 to something less. the key is to know your bandwidth limitations for your captivate project - will your project be hosted on a web server or lms, (some lms products are terrible at playing back video content) will the learner view the content on a computer tablet or phone. If designed for phone delivery remember you generally have less processing capability and users don't really want to use up their data - so minimize bandwidth to accommodate this.
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‎Jan 17, 2019
04:26 PM
MP4 can be played in any html5 compatible browser, swf is flash based video requiring the flash player = end of flash will happen very shortly. Animated gif would be stilted for an animation of this type - video will give you a smooth playing animation. Size do you mean file size as in mgb or aspect ratio. If you want to play on the entire slide then it would be the size of the slide or the project size at the largest.Of course it could be a smaller video object. Anyone creating the animation and using Adobe Media Encoder should be versed in video and audio compression, frame rate etc. You could describe you playback environment internal or external web server, lms etc and specify a minimum data rate for the video.
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‎Jan 17, 2019
01:06 PM
Export as a Photoshop PSD file from Illustrator. Make sure you save write layers on in the Photoshop Export Options. In Captivate, Import > Photoshop file and in the Import window in Captivate make sure you import as layers not as a flattened file. The objects will come into individual layers in the Captivate timeline so you can do whatever you need to do. Always try and bring the content in at the size you want to use it in Captivate in other words scale it in Illustrator to the size you will work with in Captivate before you start the process. I never trust Captivate to scale any artwork.
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‎Jan 17, 2019
12:50 PM
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No interactivity, no user control, just an animation playing on a slide - say like a spinning globe. Use Photoshop or Illustrator to create the object and use Adobe After Effects to animate and Adobe Media Encoder to create and MP4 and place the video file in the Captivate slide.
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‎Jan 14, 2019
05:26 PM
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Agree with Lieve, re non-responsive project, I would check to see that you have set the group to "Place Object on Top" when you set timing too Rest of Project. and yes you have to use shapes for the buttons and the menu itself.
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‎Jan 10, 2019
09:27 AM
You are using the Captivate variables for name and student id. These two user variables for student name and student id are being populated from the LMS because that's what they are designed to do. The remaining teb have no relationship to objects that would be auto filled by a browser. Are you trying to type into these variable student name and student id variables - that could be your problem.
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‎Jan 09, 2019
03:27 PM
Are you testing by relaunching the same browser window - I know that it sometimes gets cached. Try uploading to scorm cloud and running from there.
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‎Jan 09, 2019
03:22 PM
As a another thought, you could hide a scrolling text window interaction (widget), place the script inside especially if it is a long script, and have a toggle button to turn it on or off using show/hide.
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‎Jan 09, 2019
02:57 PM
The bottom line is do you need to collect the results of the training through a quiz or some way of tracking the learner. If so you need an lms. If you don't need to track results, (think of an lms as a data base of learner results) then you can host your courses on a web server and create a front end payment system that when paid for the the user directs them to the course. In simple terms you cannot link a consumer pay system to the lms.
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‎Jan 09, 2019
02:41 PM
What naming convention are you using for the TEB? As I remember there is a default list of field names for html for text fields like, full-name first-name last-name phone that are used for auto fill in browsers but again this can be specific to browsers. An idea use a different field name for the TEB if you have followed this type of convention.
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‎Jan 09, 2019
02:26 PM
LMS tend to pay for use at the corporate end not the user end. Prime is like that and specifically identifies users. The question you need to ask is do I need to record results in a central location. If so then you will need an lms but the customer monitization will be the issue you will have to overcome. You may need to create a portal that links to a paypal type of payment system to a web server, or custom lms type application in order to have a user pay system.
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‎Jan 09, 2019
01:03 PM
Hi Minka: I haven' had the problem you are experiencing but would love to know your outcome after redoing. Failing that not sure what to look for.
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‎Jan 08, 2019
02:50 PM
Just a little trouble shooting - did you check to see where the markers are on the Edit Video Timing window timeline You may have to adjust as necessary - check the start and end times of each text object in the Closed Captioning Window.
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‎Jan 08, 2019
02:40 PM
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Yes Captivate can meet your needs - I think you are new to how this all works so a little bit of instruction for you may help you out. You used the term video - you are not making a video (.mp4 file for example a youtube video) that would be passive learning. You are creating an eLearning course (.cptx published to html5 for publishing to web server or lms) for the drag and drop interaction to work for the learner as they complete the activity - this would be active learning or user engagement.
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‎Jan 05, 2019
09:06 AM
Well if you are trouble shooting and you close Premiere and everything works fine - is it Premiere or is it Captivate you got the chicken and egg problem. Good luck.
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‎Jan 04, 2019
01:53 PM
Perhaps you may need a little more ram on your computer. That sounds like a horsepower issue.
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‎Jan 03, 2019
09:32 AM
If you are creating a video demo recording (.cpvc file) you can use the zoom in / out feature in the Video Effects Panel. Unlike Storyline, if you are doing traditional screen capture i.e. demo mode, (.cptx file) there is no built in object in Captivate to zoom in and then out. So you can always do a screen grab and place it on a slide (enlarged view using Photoshop and crop to area you want zoomed) and then add your own mouse movements.
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‎Dec 21, 2018
06:14 PM
Try trouble shooting - Sounds like the issue is with Camtasia 2018 since something is different - is it truly an .mp4 file. Run the file through AME and make sure you set the setting to .mp4 (H264) and then insert the converted file in Captivate.
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‎Dec 13, 2018
09:44 AM
Based on your design I would think that you have a hidden smart shape or text box that you show based on the text box and an action you created. Text boxes have their own success / failure / hint as part of the object but that is not what you are talking about. As I recall, when you create output in flash their was no Z order implied in the compiled file. But that is not the case in html5. So what happening is that when the slide renders in html5 it is placing the text entry box at the highest level in the html5 Z order (stacking order by default) so it will always be on top. You may have to move the hidden object or your response to a different location on the slide. If any others have info on Z stacking order in how Captivate will render html5, would be appreciated.
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‎Dec 13, 2018
08:48 AM
In the timeline, Right click on the Video/Audio track of the .cpvc file. In the pop up Select Audio Then Select Import (it will ask to replace) say yes and import wav or mp3 from an external source (not Captivate Library) Since you have recorded in Captivate, export the wav file from the Library to you desktop then import it back in from there. Just a note it would really be useful to have a separate video / audio track - lets keep making this as an enhancement suggestion
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‎Dec 13, 2018
08:39 AM
Please clarify your response - not sure what you mean by x2 no control in Captivate called x2
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‎Dec 12, 2018
06:21 AM
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If this is one off project just download the trial version of Premiere and complete the task - I tell my students all the time to advantage of the trials - it works in a pinch
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‎Dec 11, 2018
09:08 PM
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You probably used to working with div tags to achieve that effect in a web page. There is no capability in Captivate to do that.
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‎Dec 11, 2018
09:00 PM
Definitely a font issue. However, like all attachments, blow it away if the source is not known or contact the sender and tell them to resend it a plain text format. They can save their funky fonts for magazine design not for a resume.
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‎Dec 11, 2018
08:56 PM
I like Rise and Articulate is really spending time enhancing it. It has a place in my tool set.
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‎Dec 11, 2018
08:53 PM
I really suggest you dump IE11 - just like windows 7 its a dino. You answered your own question, Edge, Chrome and Mozilla are good.
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‎Dec 11, 2018
08:49 PM
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I have found all of these certificate widgets not to be very useful. I generally create a fillable pdf and I use that as a certificate. Upon completion of the course or successful completion of the quiz, the leaner is directed to download a nicely designed pdf certificate, it auto generates the date and they enter their name in a name field. I then have a print button that the can use to print the form on 8.5 x 11 paper landscape. Once the print button is clicked and activated it also hides it so it does not print. Of course the alternative is to issue your certificate through your lms. Many have that feature.
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‎Dec 11, 2018
08:37 PM
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You can download the following pdf and it will guide you on the proper syntax for adding the vtml markup http://media.neospeech.com/document/vt_eng-Engine-VTML-v3.9.0-3.pdf
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