Comments on: Converting Captivate Courses to Video

By: Ye

Ye — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:55:06 +0000

Great post! So now the Captivate 5 is out and I tried the Mac version. I still cannot find a easy way to address this issue. Does anyone find better ways in Captivate 5?

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:18:55 +0000

I can’t tell you what a great post this was! I’ve been trying to debug avi export issue for 1/2 day and stumbled on this after reading “Tips to Publish to AVI in Adobe Captivate” link. I was trying to sych an imported FLV with animation I had overlaid on same slide. Export to SWF, PDF worked great. But during avi export my machine kept hanging (SWF to AVI conversion).

Then I set Output Options | Video Format to “MJPEG Compressor” and under Preferences | Project | SWF Size and Quality I changed “Settings” to “Custom”, unchecked all check boxes in the dialogue area and moved “JPEG” to 100%. VOILA! A perfect, fine looking, fine sounding avi export!

Cheers, Jonathan

By: TL

TL — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:20:29 +0000

This answered many of my questions. Thanks so much for a nice summary!
BTW, I found some of my tutorials using Indeo video 5.10 could play in RealPlayer with no problem.

By: Jeromie Walters

Jeromie Walters — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:58:54 +0000

This was hugely helpful! I was about to waste a LOT of time (because each encoding takes at least a half hour on my machine) doing similar experiments. I was surprised at getting such huge files (e.g. 9.5GB for a 5-minute video) but didn’t think of using Adobe Media Encoder to clean it up.

Thanks for an outstanding post!!!

By: saravana kumar

saravana kumar — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:36:53 +0000

A very useful and thoughtful article. i was looking to have my own work about but my swf was 40megas and run for a 1hr. imagine the time conversion in different formats.

regards

By: Carl

Carl — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 09:43:43 +0000

Discovered a new bug with the video rendering process today, but not sure if it’s Adobe Captivate 4, or Adobe Media Encoder.

I was going to load a course to youtube and noticed the maximum allowed video length was 10 minutes, however my course was 13 minutes long.

I decided to split the course into two parts by hiding half of the slides in Adobe Captivate 4. I then published the course to AVI video using the MJPEG Compressor codec.

I was able to import the half length AVI file into Adobe Media Encoder, and select the Youtube SD preset. However when I tried to run the queue, the program displayed a “Error \src\win\winfile.cpp-754″ error message, following by the Adobe crash reporting page.

Tried both the first have and second halves of the course a number of times with repeatable results.

For some reason AME does not like rendered video produced from Captiavte projects with hidden slides.

The solution was to import the whole course into AME, use the slider trim points to isolate the portion of the video required, and render out to FLV or H264.

Carl