*I'm always happy to point you in the right direction regarding questions about Adobe Captivate. If you need more than a simple question answered, you can purchase a one-hour one-on-one session with me at **bit.ly/Cp1on1**. If you only use some of that time, that's okay. You can bank any unused time (15-minute increments) for future sessions. For example, if you use 30 minutes, you can use 30 minutes later.*
As a new user to Captivate, I really like the way you do your videos. They are not too long and chock full of great content. Thank you and keep up the great work!
This video is from a few years ago. In this video, I think I'm using the video demo feature of Captivate. It allows you to zoom and pan once you are editing so you can focus in on specific areas of the screen.
Natacha Dube is pretty much the same process except with fluid boxes or breakpoints. Watch a few of my responsive design videos and see if they give you some ideas.
Paul Wilson Adobe Captivate Tutorials haha no videos from me anytime soon. Added the free TH-cam music to my room project. Really makes the into so much better.
I know this is an old question but you can add audio across all your slides as background audio or you can import one long audio file and distribute it across many slides.
Hey Paul, I’m sorry about this, but is there a way to loop an animation for an object? Like I want to loop the flickering animation and have it stop once I click it. Please help! Thanks so much in advance!
Well to record your voice on each side you press the large red microphone icon on your Captivate toolbar. You need to record a seperate recording per slide. You can export your audio to another audio application if you wish to add effects.
Also make sure you select the slide and not one of the objects on your slide first. The record microphone icon will record your audio attached to whatever you have selected.
How to I link from one project to another project? Basically I have a Table of Contents project from where I need to open 5 modules in their own projects. I tried "open another project" using the cptx file and url or file referencing the index.html file. I cannot move back to TOC
While you can link from one Adobe Captivate project to another this is really a one way street. If you are using an LMS it's better to publish your two or more projects as stand alone modules and place them both within the same course shell on your LMS.
You're welcome RAMMA MUDALLI, and thanks for watching. Please feel free to like and share my videos, and don't forget to subscribe to my channel if you want to be notified when I publish new content.
This video was made with an earlier version of Adobe Captivate. The effects tab is now part of the timing panel and slide notes is not something that is on by default. You need to check it from the Window drop down menu.
Paul - this is amazing. I feel silly for having found these videos so long after you've posted them! As for the music, does TH-cam allow for anyone to use the music, even for commercial use? For example, if I'm creating trainings for my company. Or is there some kind of licensing agreement on the music found on TH-cam that it can only be used for videos posted to TH-cam?
The short answer is you can only use these songs if you intend to publish your project to TH-cam (just as I do for all my videos). Here are the actual terms and conditions for the user of the TH-cam music files. Your use of this music library (including the music files in this library) is subject to the TH-cam Terms of Service. Music from this library is intended solely for use by you in videos and other content that you create. You may use music files from this library in videos that you monetize on TH-cam. By downloading music from this library, you agree that you will not: Make available, distribute or perform the music files from this library separately from videos and other content into which you have incorporated these music files (e.g., standalone distribution of these files is not permitted). Use music files from this library in an illegal manner or in connection with any illegal content. Additionally, some music files from this library may be subject to additional requirements as set forth in the library (e.g., attribution requirements). You agree to comply with such requirements when you use music from this library.
I actually think it's much more than super-charged PowerPoint. PowerPoint can't do the interactive stuff that Captivate can. *** old comment *** I didn't always answer my questions and comments as quickly as I do today. I'm going back to answer older questions not just for the original person but for others who read these questions today.
Excellent! I am an instructional Designer and looking to becoming an expert course developer using Adobe Captivate. Do you offer face -to-face training sessions too? I would like to sign up if you do..
I'm in the early stages of developing a course that I would travel around the North America with. It would likely be a two or three day course on very practical Adobe Captivate design and development. In the meantime I have been offered many clients one on one coaching and mentoring with their Adobe Captivate development. You can visit my website here to get current pricing on my consulting services: www.paulwilsonlearning.com/new-products/consultation What has worked in the past for my clients is for them to accumulate some specific needs or questions and then simply purchase an hour or two of my time (as needed) and then we can schedule a call or you can simply ask me a series of questions for me to answer, etc.
+Natacha Dube Captivate always use the same images for different breakpoints. My solution is to always optimize my images in Photoshop so that I get the right balance between file size and image quality.
Pick a slide where you wish to add text to speech. Next, click on Window > Slide Notes. Look for a little icon with "T" and a speaker. Click on that icon to open the Speech Management window for that slide. Next, click the + icon to add a passage of narration. Next to the selection, you can select the voice you wish to use. Finally, click on Generate Audio to render the text to speech. If all you see is the default Microsoft voices or the ones that come with macOS you should see a message at the bottom of this window that states You have not installed Neospeech voices. You can install these voices from the installation DVD or the download site (the link is next).
It’s 2020 and Captivate 2019 is still as slow as the version (8?) that is shown here from way back when in 2014. What. The. Funk. I’m on a four-core AMD Ryzen and I really feel like it should be flying. It ain’t. I’m new to this program, but I’ve got over 25 years of experience with Adobe’s creative tools (Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign) and, with the exception of heavy duty filters, and running actions, I’ve NEVER seen any of those programs slow down when switching between tools. If I wasn’t required to use this for work(!) I’d just use After Effects to make these materials. This is an abomination on a grand scale, and I feel terrible for the other people that use it daily. It’s like abandonware in its wonkiness, but it’s still getting upgrades! But it lacks so many of the little productivity enhancing benefits that the creative suite has. Okay, example time. I need to change all the TTS slide notes to red to differentiate them from the CC text in handouts. But is there a way to change them all in one fell swoop? NO. I found that opening the Speech Management window allows you to see all the slide notes in one (non-resizable) place. But conspicuously missing are the controls for text attributes. A completely missed opportunity. Another example: I want to speed up a screen recording because I typed too slowly. Can you do that? NO. Can you grab a quiz response three down in a stack of them? NO. I used SnagIt to record Captivate’s screen. It saves an MP4 file. (Also, it was 20 frames long and 193kb) I imported it to a slide and previewed, but it crashed Captivate. I thought, maybe it doesn’t like the format. So I used Adobe Media Encoder 2020 to produce a series of test files, each of which (AVI, MPEG2, m4v, and h.264) failed spectacularly in the same way. The only thing that did work was to bring it into an After Effects project and re-output it. Worked like a charm. This sad, sad program gets no love from the developers. It galumphs along, switching from one tool to another in a flurry of pauses, like a DOS program running a stack of executables from a menu screen. I’m going to soak my head now.
Many people assume I have some influence over the releases of Adobe Captivate. I do not. I'm just a TH-camr who tries to help people do various things with the software. Use the following links to get tech support from Adobe bit.ly/AdobeCare request a feature or submit a bug report bit.ly/AskAdobe
Paul Wilson Adobe Captivate Tutorials Sorry, I’m venting heavily and I have not had luck with Adobe tech support, because what I really need is an in with a product manager. I thought I had one on Reddit, but once she heard my level of disappointment, she ghosted me.
@@CaptivateTeacher My my my, it appears that you are really used to people just praising you for your work. You could have responded, with a tip or trick that helped you. Even a bit of empathy. Instead you blame my frustration. How disappointing. Clearly you demonstrate your preference of being the expert to be bowed down to instead of lifting people up.
@@irishdancercm While it's true that most comments on my videos are positive, I don't require praise for what I do. I don't work for Adobe. It's not my job to convince you to like Adobe Captivate. I make TH-cam videos to answer one-of questions and demonstrate that I know this software well. My hope is that someone might hire me for either teaching or development work. If you had a specific question about the software I’m happy to either answer it for free or for more involved answers point you in the direction where you can get what you need. I’m not a mind reader and I don’t have time for cryptic comments. If you merely wish to debate about if the software is good or not, I'm not interested in that. I’ve used this software for 17 years and am happy with it. If you truly want to learn this software I suggest you take a complete course so you are more comfortable. A good starting point would be the Adobe Profession Certification: Adobe Captivate - www.adobe.com/products/captivate/certificate.html
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*I'm always happy to point you in the right direction regarding questions about Adobe Captivate. If you need more than a simple question answered, you can purchase a one-hour one-on-one session with me at **bit.ly/Cp1on1**. If you only use some of that time, that's okay. You can bank any unused time (15-minute increments) for future sessions. For example, if you use 30 minutes, you can use 30 minutes later.*
Great video and easy to follow! Thank you
You’re welcome and thanks for watching.
You demonstrated these three concepts well and amount of content was good. Thank you for sharing. I look forward in learning more from you.
Thanks for watching.
Thanks for the tip on the music library!
You're welcome.
As a new user to Captivate, I really like the way you do your videos. They are not too long and chock full of great content. Thank you and keep up the great work!
Thanks Mick.
This was very very helpful. Thank you Paul.
You're welcome. Don't forget to subscribe if you haven't already.
merci beaucoup pour ce tutoriel je suis débutant je tiens vraiment à te saluer pour les vidéos que tu partages et les leçons
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Vous êtes les bienvenus et merci d'avoir regardé.
Very nice Paul. Thanks for doing these.
+Dave Schubert You're welcome and thanks for watching and don't forget to subscribe.
This is great, thank you I am inspired to create some elearning now!
You're welcome Creative Paths CIC, and thanks for watching.
Great info in this video thanks. How are you zooming in and out during this video? Are you using the software sim feature in Captivate?
This video is from a few years ago. In this video, I think I'm using the video demo feature of Captivate. It allows you to zoom and pan once you are editing so you can focus in on specific areas of the screen.
Thank you Paul, this video is of great help to a beginner like me.
Shalini Singh thanks, I'm glad you liked it.
If you are available I'm LIVE STREAMING at 8 PM UTC. I will be taking Adobe Captivate related questions. buff.ly/2kMnHz3
Great stuff Paul. Thanks.
You're welcome
Thanks for all the tutorials, how do we create this in a responsive project
Natacha Dube is pretty much the same process except with fluid boxes or breakpoints. Watch a few of my responsive design videos and see if they give you some ideas.
Another great video. Thanks
Soon I will be watching your tutorials.
Paul Wilson Adobe Captivate Tutorials haha no videos from me anytime soon. Added the free TH-cam music to my room project. Really makes the into so much better.
Is there a way to add a sound across multiple sides?
I know this is an old question but you can add audio across all your slides as background audio or you can import one long audio file and distribute it across many slides.
excellent , I'll be using this feature, thanks
You're welcome, and thanks for watching.
Hey Paul, I’m sorry about this, but is there a way to loop an animation for an object? Like I want to loop the flickering animation and have it stop once I click it. Please help! Thanks so much in advance!
You might be able to do something using the while loop function inside an advanced action, but I've not tried this myself.
Thanks , I created it work great but the device view port is only 320px x 325px
Any suggestions for slide creation
Thanks again
+Natacha Dube why so small?
How do I record my own voice and add effects to it before adding them to the video as part of teaching an elearning course.
Well to record your voice on each side you press the large red microphone icon on your Captivate toolbar. You need to record a seperate recording per slide. You can export your audio to another audio application if you wish to add effects.
Also make sure you select the slide and not one of the objects on your slide first. The record microphone icon will record your audio attached to whatever you have selected.
Excellent Video! Is there a site where I can download more text to speech voices?
You can purchase additional speech agents from Neospeech.com, however, they are super expensive.
Thanks Paul - your learning videos are awesome. Marlene
Thanks, Marlene Monteath, Don't forget to like my videos, subscribe to my channel and share my videos with your colleagues.
Thanks Paul...this is awesome.
Old comment but trying to make sure I answer all questions or comments, if not for the original person but for others. Thanks for watching.
How to I link from one project to another project? Basically I have a Table of Contents project from where I need to open 5 modules in their own projects. I tried "open another project" using the cptx file and url or file referencing the index.html file. I cannot move back to TOC
While you can link from one Adobe Captivate project to another this is really a one way street. If you are using an LMS it's better to publish your two or more projects as stand alone modules and place them both within the same course shell on your LMS.
Hi, How can I create an educational video? What is your suggestion a software? Thanks a lot
It's too broad a question for me to give an answer.
Thank you, that was simple and helpful 👍🏻 Subscribed 🎉
Thanks for subscribing and thanks for watching.
Thanks for the video
You're welcome RAMMA MUDALLI, and thanks for watching. Please feel free to like and share my videos, and don't forget to subscribe to my channel if you want to be notified when I publish new content.
why do i not see the slide notes and effects taps on this bar?
This video was made with an earlier version of Adobe Captivate. The effects tab is now part of the timing panel and slide notes is not something that is on by default. You need to check it from the Window drop down menu.
@@CaptivateTeacher thank you for advice that is very helpful :)
@@ZeezeventsCoUk You're welcome ZeeZe, and thanks for watching.
Paul - this is amazing. I feel silly for having found these videos so long after you've posted them! As for the music, does TH-cam allow for anyone to use the music, even for commercial use? For example, if I'm creating trainings for my company. Or is there some kind of licensing agreement on the music found on TH-cam that it can only be used for videos posted to TH-cam?
The short answer is you can only use these songs if you intend to publish your project to TH-cam (just as I do for all my videos). Here are the actual terms and conditions for the user of the TH-cam music files.
Your use of this music library (including the music files in this library) is subject to the TH-cam Terms of Service. Music from this library is intended solely for use by you in videos and other content that you create. You may use music files from this library in videos that you monetize on TH-cam.
By downloading music from this library, you agree that you will not:
Make available, distribute or perform the music files from this library separately from videos and other content into which you have incorporated these music files (e.g., standalone distribution of these files is not permitted).
Use music files from this library in an illegal manner or in connection with any illegal content.
Additionally, some music files from this library may be subject to additional requirements as set forth in the library (e.g., attribution requirements). You agree to comply with such requirements when you use music from this library.
Thank you so much!
This was great. Very creative. Thanks!
You're welcome and thanks for watching and subscribing. I hope you enjoy my other videos as much as you did this one.
Great video....thank you so much!
Old comment but trying to make sure I answer all questions or comments, if not for the original person but for others. Thanks for watching.
very good demo
Thanks.
Thank you Paul
You're welcome.
Hey Paul, thanks so much brother, as a new user to Captivate your vids are helping me a lot :)
You're welcome.
thanks - suddenly the penny has dropped - its super charged powerpoint with all the bells n whistles - ty
I actually think it's much more than super-charged PowerPoint. PowerPoint can't do the interactive stuff that Captivate can. *** old comment *** I didn't always answer my questions and comments as quickly as I do today. I'm going back to answer older questions not just for the original person but for others who read these questions today.
Excellent! I am an instructional Designer and looking to becoming an expert course developer using Adobe Captivate. Do you offer face -to-face training sessions too? I would like to sign up if you do..
I'm in the early stages of developing a course that I would travel around the North America with. It would likely be a two or three day course on very practical Adobe Captivate design and development. In the meantime I have been offered many clients one on one coaching and mentoring with their Adobe Captivate development. You can visit my website here to get current pricing on my consulting services: www.paulwilsonlearning.com/new-products/consultation
What has worked in the past for my clients is for them to accumulate some specific needs or questions and then simply purchase an hour or two of my time (as needed) and then we can schedule a call or you can simply ask me a series of questions for me to answer, etc.
Noted. I will be getting in touch. Thanks Paul.
It ´s the way the lms loads the course
Responsive eLearning may not be a practical design for that screen size.
I'm sorry I don't have any experience with a viewport so small but regardless of responsive or not, I would design a title page the same way.
Thanks Paul for the quick response, donyou have a tutorial on how to replace an standard size image to a smaller image in a responsive course
Take a look at this video and see if it has what yours looking for. th-cam.com/video/wl3zm8emUVk/w-d-xo.html
+Natacha Dube Captivate always use the same images for different breakpoints. My solution is to always optimize my images in Photoshop so that I get the right balance between file size and image quality.
where the hell is text to speech ? is it still part of the software ?
Pick a slide where you wish to add text to speech. Next, click on Window > Slide Notes. Look for a little icon with "T" and a speaker. Click on that icon to open the Speech Management window for that slide. Next, click the + icon to add a passage of narration. Next to the selection, you can select the voice you wish to use. Finally, click on Generate Audio to render the text to speech. If all you see is the default Microsoft voices or the ones that come with macOS you should see a message at the bottom of this window that states You have not installed Neospeech voices. You can install these voices from the installation DVD or the download site (the link is next).
It’s 2020 and Captivate 2019 is still as slow as the version (8?) that is shown here from way back when in 2014. What. The. Funk. I’m on a four-core AMD Ryzen and I really feel like it should be flying. It ain’t. I’m new to this program, but I’ve got over 25 years of experience with Adobe’s creative tools (Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign) and, with the exception of heavy duty filters, and running actions, I’ve NEVER seen any of those programs slow down when switching between tools. If I wasn’t required to use this for work(!) I’d just use After Effects to make these materials. This is an abomination on a grand scale, and I feel terrible for the other people that use it daily. It’s like abandonware in its wonkiness, but it’s still getting upgrades! But it lacks so many of the little productivity enhancing benefits that the creative suite has. Okay, example time. I need to change all the TTS slide notes to red to differentiate them from the CC text in handouts. But is there a way to change them all in one fell swoop? NO. I found that opening the Speech Management window allows you to see all the slide notes in one (non-resizable) place. But conspicuously missing are the controls for text attributes. A completely missed opportunity. Another example: I want to speed up a screen recording because I typed too slowly. Can you do that? NO. Can you grab a quiz response three down in a stack of them? NO. I used SnagIt to record Captivate’s screen. It saves an MP4 file. (Also, it was 20 frames long and 193kb) I imported it to a slide and previewed, but it crashed Captivate. I thought, maybe it doesn’t like the format. So I used Adobe Media Encoder 2020 to produce a series of test files, each of which (AVI, MPEG2, m4v, and h.264) failed spectacularly in the same way. The only thing that did work was to bring it into an After Effects project and re-output it. Worked like a charm. This sad, sad program gets no love from the developers. It galumphs along, switching from one tool to another in a flurry of pauses, like a DOS program running a stack of executables from a menu screen. I’m going to soak my head now.
Many people assume I have some influence over the releases of Adobe Captivate. I do not. I'm just a TH-camr who tries to help people do various things with the software. Use the following links to get tech support from Adobe bit.ly/AdobeCare request a feature or submit a bug report bit.ly/AskAdobe
Paul Wilson Adobe Captivate Tutorials Sorry, I’m venting heavily and I have not had luck with Adobe tech support, because what I really need is an in with a product manager. I thought I had one on Reddit, but once she heard my level of disappointment, she ghosted me.
Text to speech is a terrible idea!!! It reads poorly and it misses homophones.
Agreed but you may have budget constraints or have a head cold.
French voices start at 800$ per year ...
Text to speech isn't cheap. Check out wellsaidlabs.com/ (no French yet but very interesting to see where the technology is going).
I can't stand Captivate. This is not user friendly like all Adobe products.
It's like anything, once you know it, it's easy.
@@CaptivateTeacher Once you know it you know how many other tools are better.
Why are you here if you don't need my help nor have anything to contribute?
@@CaptivateTeacher My my my, it appears that you are really used to people just praising you for your work. You could have responded, with a tip or trick that helped you. Even a bit of empathy. Instead you blame my frustration. How disappointing. Clearly you demonstrate your preference of being the expert to be bowed down to instead of lifting people up.
@@irishdancercm While it's true that most comments on my videos are positive, I don't require praise for what I do. I don't work for Adobe. It's not my job to convince you to like Adobe Captivate. I make TH-cam videos to answer one-of questions and demonstrate that I know this software well. My hope is that someone might hire me for either teaching or development work. If you had a specific question about the software I’m happy to either answer it for free or for more involved answers point you in the direction where you can get what you need. I’m not a mind reader and I don’t have time for cryptic comments. If you merely wish to debate about if the software is good or not, I'm not interested in that. I’ve used this software for 17 years and am happy with it. If you truly want to learn this software I suggest you take a complete course so you are more comfortable. A good starting point would be the Adobe Profession Certification: Adobe Captivate -
www.adobe.com/products/captivate/certificate.html