Adobe captivate 5 requirements how to#
Here’s how to get a Captivate project into a small file format suitable for YouTube: Initially, I couldn’t figure out how to change the default conversion output of one second per slide (my little project lasted for three very quick seconds on YouTube!), but after reading this article - I got it working so that the output timing reflected the timeline of my Captivate project. Who knew? And this program was able to reduce the file size dramatically as well as reduce the fuzziness I had in the F4V file. By the way, in case it matters, this test file was set to 800 x 600 pixels with a default slide time of three seconds.Īfter some more internet searching, I discovered that there’s an Adobe product - Adobe Media Encoder - that’s automatically installed when you install Captivate 5.
Oh, and when uploaded, the resulting video on YouTube was a bit fuzzy. Not very helpful or useful - files that size just clog the ‘intertubes’. My tiny test file had one image, three 3-second slides with minimal text, and no audio, yet publishing it to *.F4V created a file that was almost 12 MB. It’s also not documented in the Help (a search of the Help for YouTube gave no results).Ĭaptivate 5 will publish to *.F4V format and YouTube will accept those files, BUT… and it’s a big BUT… the files created are BIG. and testing possible solutions to find out that publishing a Captivate file to a format suitable for YouTube is possible, but it’s a bit obscure and requires the use of another program. This is a paid upgrade for Captivate 5 owners.)Īnd how do I know this? Because I just spent a couple of hours searching Adobe’s Help, Forums, the internet etc.
( Update June 2011: It seems the newly released Captivate 5.5 will save to formats acceptable to YouTube. It seems that Captivate 4 could save as *.AVI, but that option is not available in Captivate 5 (why on earth would Adobe *remove* features?). I was always under the impression that later versions of Adobe Captivate could publish to a format suitable for uploading to YouTube.
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