The simple answer is that Captivate doesn't allow you to separate the timeline and have one timeline per slide.  It just doesn't work that way (and never has).   If that functionality is a dealbreaker for you, I would suggest you change to Articulate Storyline.  Their timeline is per slide and you cannot have an overall timeline for the entire project. ... View more

To me that would tend to indicate that you may not have correctly installed the voices and that's why the option does not appear.   One thing to look out for with Captivate's install packages is that some of them have a two stage installation.  The first park just unpacks all the files from the compressed archive.  You then need to find where they have been uncompressed (usually to a folder on your desktop) and then run the installation from within that folder.   If that's what is happening here, look for an extra folder somewhere on your desktop and see if there is a setup.exe or something similear inside it.     If not, please try running the installation again but do not change any of the default settings. ... View more

You will find the instructions under the heading on this page: Generate Text to Speech https://helpx.adobe.com/au/captivate/help/adding-audio-adobe-captivate.html ... View more

Those three little icons at the top of your stage in Captivate edit mode are telling you that this is a responsive project. You probably already knew that.  But what you may not have realised yet is that with Captivate 12 you do NOT have the option to create a fixed size project.  You can only create responsive output.   This is one of the main issues many of us have with Captivate 12.  It makes it impossible to create most of the e-learning our clients want. ... View more

LOL! If you think Captivate 12 will have fewer "kinks" than Cp 2019 you are in for a real surprise... ... View more

Was this ZIP file created directly by Captivate when you published with the ZIP option checked? Or, did you select the published folder and compress it yourself?  There can be a big difference in the result.   When Captivate zips the published output the imsmanifest.xml file is at the root level of the zip archive.  If you just select the folder containing the published output and compress it, the manifest file ends up being one level lower in the hierarchy and the LMS cannot find because it expects the manifest to be right at the top level.   So, if it was you and not Captivate that created the zip, just let Captivate do it.     If you have a reason for NOT letting Captivate automatically create the zip file (e.g. you had to include some extra files in the output) the trick is NOT to select the outer folder but to go INSIDE the publish folder, select everything, and then zip the contents.  That way the manifest will be at the right level for the LMS to find it. ... View more

I never find the Auto Calibrate works well enough.  I always experiment with adjusting the Preamplifier Value manually until I find a value that seems to give a strong enough waveform for a particular microphone.   Once you find a value that gives you good audio without clipping (cutting off sounds that are too loud) you should be good to go.   The setting you see above is what I use for my podcast quality microphone. ... View more

You can insert a variable into a caption or Smart Shape via the icon in the Properties tab. ... View more

Try 1920 x 1080  also known as Full HD. ... View more

If the content works fine when viewed from Captivate using Preview as HTML but suffers issues with delays or freezing when the same content is viewed from an LMS, the usual reason is LMS web server latency.   Your LMS may not be able to handle the number of "hits" being sent to it by your students. https://www.infosemantics.com.au/about-learning-management-system-server-latency/ ... View more

It doesn't have to be a separate monitor.  The screen resolution you just quoted is 4K.  That's why everything looks so small. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4K_resolution     ... View more

Does it only do this when being served from an LMS?  Or does the course module also do the same thing when viewed in Captivate using Preview as HTML? ... View more

Your screenshot indicates you may be using a 4K monitor.  Is that correct?   What is the screen resolutio of your monitor?  What is your display percentage? ... View more

It is extremely UNLIKELY that your issue is due to having maxed out the number of Advanced Actions on a slide.  I have never encountered a limit of that type with Captivate 2019.   The most likely reason for your issue is that you have inadvertently created some kind of endless loop with the logic in your current Advanced Actions.  The fact that everything works when you just remove one action would tend to support that view.   Personally, if all you need to do is have the button hidden from the beginning of the slide then I would suggest you just use the On Slide Enter event to hide the button, or if there are several other things that also need to be hidden at that time then just use the On Slide Enter event to execute an Advanced Action that does everything required to set the slide up.  You probably do not need to have a Conditional statement attached to the block that hides the button.  Other blocks in the AA might need to have conditions, but you can opt NOT to have a condition by simply not selecting that checkbox on the decision block. ... View more

The multinational company I am currently contracted to as an Instructional Designer also uses SumTotal as their LMS.  None of the course modules that I have created with Captivate 2019 and uploaded to that LMS have ever shown this bar.    I usually publish to SCORM 1.2 and occasionally SCORM 2004 3rd edition, never SCORM 2004 4th edition.  But I very much doubt that it is the SCORM version throwing up this bar.  It looks very much like the way the LMS admin or some other user has configured this course with the expectation that the user would need some way to navigate to other content after completing the module. I agree with Lilybiri's suggestion to try uploading to SCORM Cloud as a test.  You could even send them your screenshot and ask if they recognise it as something related to their SCORM code in the module. ... View more

That bar is not something created by Captivate.    Is this Captivate course content hosted with Rustici and being delivered to your LMS via Rustici's Dispatch service? https://rusticisoftware.com/products/rustici-dispatch/   If not that, then is this course module part of a Multi-SCORM course?  If there is more than one module in the course package then the arrows in that bar at the top of the browser window is the only way your users would be able to navigate from module to module in order to complete the course.   ... View more

Glad Lilybiri and I could both help you out.  We also know what it is like to work as freelance e-learning developers and run into issues.  That's how we ended up getting to know most of the quirks of Captivate. ... View more

What you describe do not sound like bugs to me.  The issues sound more like your project Theme and Master Slides have not been set up properly.      Button states can be very powerful, but if clicking on a button causes the text to be left justified, that would tend to indicate that the states have not been set up correctly. By default the Down state of any button is deliberately set to appear slightly smaller at runtime to give the effect of pressing the button.  That may be what you are referring to.   If you do not want that feedback change when clicked, you can remove the Down state.   Did you use the Master Slide layouts for quiz question slides to try and change the formatting of the buttons, or did you just do it on individual buttons on the resulting slides?   The Question X of Y caption that appears on quiz question templates can easily be made larger to avoid text wrapping.  Just select the placeholder for it in the Master Slide and change it's width in the Properties tab > Options area.   I would also recommend you set up a number of custom object text styles that you can then apply to all objects that should share certain formatting (e.g. quiz question buttons).  That will give you much better control over look-and-feel, plus it then allows you to change formatting for all objects attached to that style by just altering the settings in the object style.   If you haven't used Captivate since version 8, some of these features may be unknown to you.  One caveat however is that the project you are currently creating in Captivate 2019 will not be transportable or updateable to Captivate 13.  So, that may be something to consider. ... View more

I really recommend checking in Quiz Settings to see if the Allow Backward Movement box is unchecked.  If that option is not selected, then even though your On Focus Lost action is set to jump back to a previous slide, the timeline will not be permitted to go back to that slide, and will instead continue on beyond the pause point of the TEB to enter the inactive area.   If this is the case, if the user stops interacting with the course content in their web browser and click anywhere else at all, the On Focus Lost action could be what is causing your users to end up being unable to keep interacting with the TEB.  Turning on Allow Backward Movement might be all you need to do to resolve this issue. ... View more

The slide length should only need to be a few seconds because the TEB will pause the timeline at 1.5 seconds and then the timeline should not restart until something triggers it.   If you have Auto Submit set, what is the number of characters you have specified as Maximum? Can you show your validation settings in a screenshot?   ... View more

Just re-read your initial post and see that you DO have validation set with a correct answer.   In that case, the only other reason I can think of as to why the TEB is inactive when the user comes back after a break is that perhaps there is some kind of timeout that cuts in after a given period of inactivity.  This might not be something Captivate is doing. I've not seen it do that before by default. It could just be something triggered by the web browser to avoid wasting resources on the computer.    Are you able to determine what the timeout period is?  That might help establish where the issue lies.   Another debugging option is to share your project with someone outside your web environment to see if the output does the same for them. ... View more

OK.  I just realised you're referring to the Auto Submit feature found under More Options in Properties.   That feature relies on the value entered to be of a certain number of characters.  If Auto Submit is selected, then when the user types the correct number of characters the timeline continues.     Is the user expected to enter the specific text of the phrase shown in your screenshot?   ... View more

The AutoSubmit feature really only means that when the user types into the Text Entry field each character is immediately saved to the User Variable associated with the TEB.  There isn't really any "event" that you can use to trigger another action this way.  That's why TEBs by default have a Submit button that can be used to trigger evaluation of the value entered into the TEB, and then if the result evaluates to Success or Failure, this will be an event that can trigger another Action of some kind. ... View more

Not a very informative error message.  These sorts of problems can be very difficult to debug with so little information to go on.  I would suggest you reduce or remove the complexity with a process of elimination to find the cause.   If you open a new project and then insert the same widget without making any changes to it (not copying your slide with your current widget) do you get the same error message?  If so, that would indicate there is either something wrong with that widget, or something wrong with your Captivate installation.   If you can create a new project with the same widget WITHOUT error messages, but DO get errors when inserting your images, try inserting just one image at a time and then test.  It could be that there is something related to those images that is causing the error.  Sometimes something as simple as having certain characters in the filename can cause issues.  Also, are these images very high resolution?  Sometimes the sheer weight of the files can cause problems and using lower resolution images can avoid issues. ... View more

Is this a responsive project?  That would explain not being able to create a video output. ... View more

I'm in a similar boat.  I was the one who recommended Captivate to a large multinational mining company back in 2005-2006.  They have used it worldwide ever since and currently have Cp2019 as their default e-learning authoring tool.     However, when I was asked again last year whether they should roll out Captivate 13, I had to inform them that none of their previous e-learning courses would be compatible with the new version and that it was incapable of creating the kind of fixed stage size output they required.  (They never do responsive e-learning because all training content is viewed on laptop computers, not mobile devices.)   So, they will likely move away from Captivate now after almost 20 years using Adobe's product.  (They still use Creative Cloud, but they don't use that for e-learning.)   Sad times. ... View more

It seems quite strange to me that your display settings would forever determine your project size in this way.   I would suggest that you log this with Adobe as a possible bug. ... View more