Paul Wilson Paul Wilson

Customize Effects and Motion Paths in Your Adobe Captivate eLearning Project

In this video, I show you how you can customize effects and motion paths in your Adobe Captivate eLearning projects by exporting the XML file and making some minor edits.

In this video, I show you how you can customize effects and motion paths in your Adobe Captivate eLearning projects by exporting the XML file and making some minor edits.

Customize Effects and Motion Paths in Your Adobe Captivate eLearning Project

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Top 5 Snagit 2022 Skills for eLearning Professionals

In this video, I share my top 5 Snagit 2022 Skills you will need as eLearning professionals.

In this video, I share my top 5 Snagit 2022 Skills you will need as eLearning professionals.

00:00 Introduction

01:02 Cropping an image

03:03 Resizing an image

04:41 Flipping an image

05:30 Blur an image

06:39 Record a video

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Adobe Captivate Shared Action Mute Button for Responsive Design

In this video, I show you how to create a mute button using shared actions in your responsive design adobe captivate elearning project.

In this video, I show you how to create a mute button using shared actions in your responsive design adobe captivate elearning project.

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Make Your Adobe Captivate Text Entry Boxes Mandatory

In this video, I will show you how you can make your text entry boxes in Adobe Captivate mandatory.

In this video, I will show you how you can make your text entry boxes in Adobe Captivate mandatory. In other words, learners will not be able to move forward in this elearning course until they enter some text into the field.

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Current State of Affairs with Adobe Captivate

There have been many complaints about Captivate and Project Charm lately on the forums. I decided to weigh in with a few thoughts of my own. It's not uncommon for new technology to experience delays.

There have been many complaints about Captivate and Project Charm lately on the forums. I decided to weigh in with a few thoughts of my own. It's not uncommon for new technology to experience delays. For example, the period between Windows XP and Windows Vista was five years due to Microsoft trying to accomplish too much with this update.

I think the biggest mistake Adobe has made with Adobe Captivate was to switch from version numbers to version years. I wonder if we would be as upset as we are if, in August of 2018, Adobe marketed with version 11.0.0.243 and followed it up with the following updates:

  • 11.0.1.266

  • 11.5.0.476

  • 11.5.4.499

  • 11.5.4.613 (macOS only)

  • 11.5.5.553 (Windows) / 11.5.5.676 (macOS)

  • 11.8.0.586 (Windows subscription)

  • 11.8.0.710 (macOS subscription)

Most of these were bug fixes, but Adobe added some new features to Adobe Captivate during this journey. As a result, Adobe would have been justified in releasing it as version 12 due to the new capabilities we didn't have before. I would have liked to see a version of the software that removed all the legacy features such as learning interactions incompatible with HTML5 and removed the ability to publish to PhoneGap and SWF. This update could have been called Adobe Captivate 2021 and released the same month when support for Flash Player ended. Adobe could have based on the same code base we have now, giving them time to work on a significant change like Project Charm.

Incidentally, I'm curious what feature(s) people feel they are missing in Adobe Captivate 2019. I use it every day and am capable of building effective elearning for my clients. Don't get me wrong. I'm not an apologist for Adobe, nor am I necessarily a fanboy, but while Adobe Captivate 2019 isn't as pretty as what we saw in the demo last year, I still feel it's an instrumental piece of software for me. But, of course, this is just my opinion. The rest of you may have some valid points that I'm not picking up on. However, I will say that I think many of you are running the software under less than ideal hardware or circumstances. I don’t experience the issues that some of you are complaining about.

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Convert Old Adobe Captivate Captions to Smart Shapes

In this video, I show you how to convert the old-style question slide captions from older Captivate projects to the newer style that uses smart shapes.

In this video, I show you how to convert the old-style question slide captions from older Captivate projects to the newer style that uses smart shapes. Smart shapes are far more versatile, and they don't require you to write any code to make them work if you wish to customize them.

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Make Your Own Adobe Captivate Circle Matrix Interaction

In this video, I show you how you can build your own circle matrix interaction in Adobe Captivate.

In this video, I show you how you can build your own circle matrix interaction in Adobe Captivate. Perhaps you have tried to use the one built into the Learning Interactions included with Adobe Captivate but found you couldn't customize it enough. For example, maybe you needed to add a hidden next button to prevent the learner from skipping the content or perhaps you wanted labels instead of numbers. This video covers a detailed explanation of how you can build your own interactions and be an eLearning superhero in your organization. Free Members and higher from my YouTube channel can download a copy of this completed interaction.

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Is the Shure MV7 Good for eLearning?

In this video, I review the Shure MV7 microphone and discuss if it's a good choice for eLearning developers like myself. Also, I talk about my experience using the Blue Yeti.

In this video, I review the Shure MV7 microphone and discuss it it's a good choice for eLearning developers like myself. Also, I talk about my experience using the Blue Yeti. Here is the original video that inspired me to take a look at the MV7 in the first place: https://youtu.be/Xnvu7MTWtvY

Shure MV7: https://amzn.to/3rgXpVN

Blue Yeti: https://amzn.to/3DWNjPf

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