Brian Dusablon

Adobe Captivate: What the heck is g_intAPIType? – Nice explanation from Philip

getURL works in all browsers, but uses a more complicated communication system when sending data to your Captivate file from the LMS. It also makes a lot of clicking sounds.

Lucky Day – one of the best shorts I’ve seen. Ever.

Nerf Infrared Auto-Cannon – Brilliant.

Baylor Rugby Alumni Festival – Work (and life) is keeping me away, but should be another awesome event.

Just take an iPhone 4 – my thoughts exactly. So nice, now that I have HD video capability and a better camera in my pocket. I still use my DSLR for sporting events and some other shots, but I love the iPhone because it’s an all-in-one, for almost everyone and everything.

MiFi of Your Dreams – not exactly, but it’s close. I could do without the steep $150 entry price. However, $40 a month for an unlimited “wherever I am” hotspot? Not too shabby.

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:

1. Record your Captivate movie as you normally would, including drag and drop.
2. Publish your Captivate movie as SWF output (this publishes the main movie plus individual full motion SWFs)
   
3. 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.
   
   
4. Repeat step 3 for all full motion slides
5. Publish your Captivate movie to SWF output. (optionally, you can also turn off the skin when you publish – I created a “no-skin” skin)
   
6. 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.

Adobe Notes:

• Cap. 4 has variables. Ability to personalize training. Capture data at front-end (names, etc.) and use them throughout.
• Connect keeps track of every interaction, allowing recording for EEs to take at a later time asynchronously.
• Same experience in sync/async (for the most part)
• Flash Player inside of Acrobat Pro and Reader.
• Embed Captivate movie inside of Acrobat job aid.
• Interactive menu (like portfolio) for resources. Acrobat could be shell for all resources for training or reference.

AIR:

• With Captivate 4: Feedback/comments on elearning (reviewer can be on a Mac/Linux)
• Use AIR to “Send for Review”
• Send via email (two files – AIR app, review file)
• Requires IT Support to get AIR installed (will this work in a corporate environment?)
• Reviewer: watch the movie, add comments as it plays. Comments can be reviewed at end, then saved/submitted to the original file’s save location (shared network drive?).
• All comments from multiple reviewers will sync up.
• Reviews are automatically synced, reviewer does not have to email them back.
• Automatically records author of comments
• On refresh, reviewer can go see new comments (but no automatic notification built-in?)

Adobe Launching eLearning Suite Soon