Publishing to a Single SWF from Captivate
If you perform full motion capture in Captivate (happens automatically when you drag your mouse), it will create multiple SWF files in your project directory. A work around I learned yesterday from RJ is below:
- Record your Captivate movie as you normally would, including drag and drop.
- Publish your Captivate movie as SWF output (this publishes the main movie plus individual full motion SWFs)
- In Captivate, go to the Full Motion slides and delete the full motion screen, then insert an animation and navigate to and select your full motion swf to insert.
- Repeat step 3 for all full motion slides
- Publish your Captivate movie to SWF output. (optionally, you can also turn off the skin when you publish – I created a “no-skin” skin)
- In your published folder, you can now delete the full motion swfs and the skin swf if you want. Your published SWF will contain the full motion swfs you inserted as animations with no loss of quality.
Let me know if you have questions and/or comments about this.
If you turn off the Show Borders on the skin it publishes to a single file and still has the playback controls available.
Your a Godsend! your article was the only one that worked for me! I was able to create a movie within a PDF (acrobat
with one SWF that contained full motion slides and captions!
No problem – glad I could be of assistance – though I cannot take full credit – just sharing what I learned from others. Great stuff though. It was a great fix for me as well.
Brian I did what you said and if I delete the full motion swfs, my main swf does not display the separate full motion swfs? Do you know what I am doing wrong
Allyn, please use my contact form to send me an email and I can help you out.
Hi Brian – This solves a big problem for us using captivate 3 and pdf embedding.
Great job!
Cool.. but I lose the sound. Any ideas Brian? Thanks.
Greg – not sure why you’re losing audio – I’m assuming you followed the steps exactly? Contact me (use the form or reply to this comment) and we can discuss further.
Looking forward seeing more similar posts,continue the nice work.