![]() If you want the Shared action (easier to transfer): Personally I always use a Shared action to achieve this, based on an advanced action described here: There are multiple ways to achieve this, and I documented some of them on my blog. You want what is called 'Forced First View'. Although I can have a simple conversation in Italian, I don't dare to write in your musical language (I am a musician). In part two, I’ll take a look at the new Question Pool feature, as well as the LMS export options.Sorry for answering in English. So long as Adobe keeps the branding optional, I’m ok with it. While I’m not crazy about this branding being set as the default, I also acknowledge that Adobe’s competitors have been doing it for years, and many of them won’t give you an easy way to remove their logos (hello, TechSmith). If you don’t like the Adobe branding, you can choose a different preloader graphic, just like Captivate 2. Again, free advertising for Adobe if you don’t want to change the defaults. The new default is a progress bar with the text “Adobe Captivate” placed in bold right above the bar. ![]() The previous default was a small circle spinning around. This is only on the default skin, so you can easily choose another skin if you don’t like giving Adobe free advertising.Īdobe has also added a new Adobe-branded preloader graphic. The default playback controller now includes an “Adobe Captivate” stamp. It seems Adobe is trying a little harder to spread the Captivate brand name around. Why Adobe chose to emulate the worst-of-class PowerPoint transitions and ignore the best-of-class Keynote transitions - which are perfectly suited for a SWF - is beyond me. It’s enough to make me want to buy a MacBook Pro. I’m not a Mac evangelist by any means (I use Windows XP), but if you want to see some very tasteful transitions, check out a demo of Keynote sometime. Otherwise, most of these transitions are intended to appeal to the PowerPoint crowd, and are best left alone. There are some exceptions for instance, if you’re recreating scenes from Star Wars and want that famous wipe transition between scenes, go for it! Or the iris transition for a James Bond-themed Captivate movie. In the name of all designers who create items of taste, I implore you to ignore these new transitions unless they make sense for your particular needs. Captivate 3 has swiped emulated PowerPoint’s array of transition types, including blinds, fly, iris, photo, pixel dissolve, rotate, squeeze, wipe and zoom. In Captivate 1 and 2, users only had three slide transitions to choose from: fade in, fade out, and fade between. Clicking anywhere on the screen - even on what used to be a ‘back’ button - simply caused the Captivate movie to go forward one slide. Captivate stripped the links from all clickable items and rendered them as non-clickable drawings. In this case, the clickable items were all homemade navigation aids, such as next, previous, and menu. For one of my tests, I imported a large PowerPoint presentation that contained clickable items on each page. One important thing to note about imported PPT presentations: Captivate 3 does NOT import clickable items. I haven’t pushed the boundaries when testing this feature, but for general zoom, resize, and fade-style animations, the SWF version was identical to the PPT version. Users had to add their own navigational aids or use the Captivate playback controls.Ĭaptivate 3, on the other hand, converts PPT animations to SWF format, enabling users to retain most of their PPT animation. This meant that every slide became a still screenshot, and the converted presentation would automatically go from slide to slide in a matter of seconds. In Captivate 2, PPT animations were lost during the conversion, and Captivate 2 didn’t automatically add pauses (‘wait for mouse click’ behavior) in each slide. Having said that, Captivate 3 represents a substantial improvement over Captivate 2 when importing PowerPoint (PPT) presentations. It’s a bad idea, whether it’s been converted to Captivate or not. Importing PowerPoint presentationsĭisclaimer: I have never recommended nor will I ever recommend using PowerPoint presentations as online courseware. This is part one of a multi-part journal entry. ![]() Here are my first impressions of Captivate 3’s improvements and new features.
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