The Insider

The movie covers the process to use variables, and create scripts for Advanced Actions in Captivate. To view the movie, Click Here.
To save the file to your computer, right-click the link, and select Save Target As.

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The movie covers the process to convert slide notes to audio using the speech to text converter in Adobe Captivate. The text to audio feature can help you save a lot of money spent on dubbing audio for your movies. To view the movie, Click Here. To save the file to your computer, right-click the link, and select Save Target As.

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Check out this really cool presentation from RJ Jacquez, Senior Product Evangelist, Adobe on the elearning suite. The presentation has been created using Adobe Captivate and Adobe Flash. It provides a great workflow for the products in the Adobe Captivate elearning suite.

https://admin.adobe.acrobat.com/_a295153/introducingels/

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The movie covers the review workflow in Adobe Captivate 4. It is a part of the Getting Started Tutorials section in the product.  To view the movie, Click Here. To save the file to your computer, right-click the link, and select, Save Target As. 

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Now that the hint hint wink wink days are gone, I can go ahead and reveal the stuff that these features are made of. Note though that these links might not go to the correct pages if we update the help at a later point in time. For the next month or so at least, I don’t see it happening.

The New Recording Workflow:

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Captivate/4.0/Using/WSc1b83f70210cd101-64a32d6211d89ec2969-8000.html

Enhancements to Project Templates

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Captivate/4.0/Using/WS9222E9FD-5863-4fec-A7BD-A79027360F98.html#WS8531BC32-7C2E-4bb9-B86D-A90D17F8FCF6

Reviewing Adobe Captivate projects

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Captivate/4.0/Using/WS52EA74AE-9A81-49ad-8801-2156B18DF334.html

Enhancements to the PowerPoint workflow

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Captivate/4.0/Using/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d119e9582981-7fe4.html

Text to speech utility

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Captivate/4.0/Using/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d119e9582190-7fd8.html

Drawing Tools

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Captivate/4.0/Using/WS96DB5DA0-A865-4424-9F83-CA9879185858.html

Widgets

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Captivate/4.0/Using/WSc1b83f70210cd101-39b1e31d11d86d8de77-8000.html

Variables and Advanced Actions

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Captivate/4.0/Using/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d119e9581fd8-8000.html

Support for ActionScript 3.0 (AS3)
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Captivate/4.0/Using/WSc1b83f70210cd101706b889011c4fc2e575-8000.html

Importing PSD files
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Captivate/4.0/Using/WSA2E0A6EA-A192-4d38-8C15-5E589ACEF374.html

Enhancements to image import

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Captivate/4.0/Using/WSA2E0A6EA-A192-4d38-8C15-5E589ACEF374.html

LMS enhancements

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Captivate/4.0/Using/WSc1b83f70210cd1015881ff7211c9893458a-8000.html

Table of Contents

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Captivate/4.0/Using/WSc1b83f70210cd101-267d591c11c7b27d48a-8000.html

Aggregator

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Captivate/4.0/Using/WSc1b83f70210cd101-1ff8d6a911d0a0500a3-8000.html

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Captivate/4.0/Using/WSc1b83f70210cd101-4593a17a11d8ad49c44-8000.html

Right-click functionality

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Captivate/4.0/Using/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d119e9581edd-7ff9.html

Single SWF option

By default, Adobe Captivate publishes a single SWF file. You can however choose to externalize some of the files like (Skin, Widgets, FMR SWF, Animation) using the Preferences dialog box (Edit > Preferences > Publish Settings)

Design templates

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Captivate/4.0/Using/WS8A15042E-DA1E-46de-B622-C19FEAB88E0A.html

Publish project as an AVI file

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Captivate/4.0/Using/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d119e958285f-7fff.html

Whew! Enjoy!

(PS: There are some enhancements that you will figure out anyways. So, I am leaving those out)

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The Adobe Captivate product team has its own blog http://blogs.adobe.com/captivate. You can shoot all your technical queries to posts in this blog site. For anything related to documentation, you can post comments on my blog.

Tridib has already posted a blog on the elearning suite, and I am sure you will find the material very useful.

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One of the flagship features of Adobe Captivate 4 is the ability to comment on SWF files. The workflow is described in the following image.

View an image of the Adobe Captivate Review workflow

And this is how the AIR application used for commenting looks.

For more information, check out the link
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Captivate/4.0/Using/WS52EA74AE-9A81-49ad-8801-2156B18DF334.html

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Bring out the bugles, trumpets, trombones, the drums, and the congas! Adobe Captivate 4 is here, and how! The latest avatar of Captivate 4, the grandest yet, comes with a set of useful features that you been asking for, and more! With this version, Adobe Captivate breaks free, and comes into its own. It is now a complete elearning tool by itself, relying minimally on third-party software for support.

Apart from these new features themselves, we are sure you will enjoy the improved performance, and enhancements to some of your favorite features. And did I mention the improved help system with much much better content?

For information on the system requirements for Adobe Captivate 4, visit http://www.adobe.com/support/documentation/en/captivate/releasenotes.html

For information on pricing, visit
http://www.adobe.com/products/captivate/

For Adobe Captivate 4 documentation, visit
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Captivate/4.0/Using/

In the coming weeks, I will be taking you through the commenting feature in Adobe Captivate. Most of it is covered in the documentation, but there are things that I can only say in my blog, and you bet, I will!

In today’s world where training budgets are tighter than ever before, elearning and its development has become all the more relevant. Adobe Captivate 4, the rapid elearning development tool from Adobe, provides you all that you need to redefine the elearning experience, and go beyond the possible.

For more informatiion, check out these sites as well
eLearning Suite Home page - http://www.adobe.com/products/elearningsuite/
http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock%20News/2133651/?lid=right-news-1
http://uk.sys-con.com/node/813458

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