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Expectations From eLearning Authoring Tools

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Should be able to import external Flash SWF as well as audio and video in variety of popular formats. Localization processes using the tool should be easy and fast. Should be able to import/export content (like PPT, DOC, or simple HTML), and allow for edits after import. Standard and customizable compliance. 2004, AICC).

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Rapid eLearning Through Software Simulations And Screencasts

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It captures the mouse movements, clicks and on screen changes along with any narration audio which can be recorded through attached microphone lively and in sync with the capturing screen. Unlike screen capturing tools, the published output is not just a passive video, but is in a fully interactive format such as Flash SWF.

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Adobe Captivate 5.5: Lowering the Size of Published SWFs

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Fortunately, adding interactivity to a lesson does not negatively impact the size of the published SWF. Rather, imported assets such as audio, video and images are the main culprits behind SWF bloat. There are some things that you can do while working in Captivate that may lower the size of the published SWF.

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Adobe Captivate 6: Delivering Standalone eLearning Lessons

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If the learner is going to access the lesson over the internet (either from a web server or an LMS), publishing SWF and/or HTML5 is the way to go. If you decide to publish a SWF, the learner will use a web browser to access the lesson. Just remember that neither SWF nor HTML5 are good standalone options.

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Adobe Captivate 2019: New Text-to-Speech Voices

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In that post, I told you how Adobe removed most of the outdated (Flash) SWF features. Choose  Audio  >  Speech Management  to open the Speech Management dialog box.   Select the voice you'd like and click Generate Audio. You can preview the audio by clicking the Play icon.

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Smokescreen – The Future Of Flash Player?

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Primarily, it reads the binary SWF file and renders its animation and audio content to standard web compliant format. For now this project is targeted at advertisers to enable them to run Flash ads on the iPhone/iPad. Here is a video demonstration of a Flash ad running on an iPad using Smokescreen –. Chrome 5, Safari 4 and Opera 10.53.

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Adobe Captivate: Best Practices for Creating Compliant eLearning

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For example, if you select the Enable Accessibility option and you have filled in the project name and project description text boxes in Project preferences, a screen reader will read the name and description when the Adobe Captivate SWF file is played. Tips for Creating 508-compliant Adobe Captivate SWF Files. Avoid looping objects.