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- IconLogic's Blog: I Came, I Saw, I Learned...
Adobe Captivate 5: The Essentials
- Class files: PC Mac
- Errata Sheet : Captivate 5.5 Specific Issues
- Adobe Captivate 5: The Essentials: Corrections PDF

The Main Differences Between Captivate versions 5 and 5.5 [YouTube Video]
Adobe Captivate 5.5 Features
Adobe Captivate 5.5 – pricing levels and subscription plans
Adobe Captivate for Mac: Sneak Peek (See what Captivate 5 Windows/Mac will look like)
Adobe Captivate 4: Screen Capturing Software, Video Screen Capture Software
The Adobe Captivate Blog
Adobe Captivate Forums
Adobe Captivate Developer Center
Tips and Tricks
Accessibility best practices for Adobe Captivate
What's New in Adobe Captivate 5
What's New in Captivate 4
Best Practices for Captivate 4 and Connect Pro
Essentials of Adobe Captivate 4: Production Tips and Tricks

Adobe Forums: Forum: Adobe Captivate
- Editing images from the library
- Batch image updating
I Came, I Saw, I Learned...

Best Practices Using Adobe Captivate PDF
RJ Jacquez's Adobe in eLearning and Tech Communication
Elearning instructional design ideas - Making Change blog
- Elearning samples
  - Elearning example: Branching scenario
What is Effective Elearning?
Captivate | elearninglive.com
- Interesting Captivate Links By Mark | July 1, 2009
Interface
- Timeline improvements – Adobe Captivate 5.5
Object Formatting
- Object rotation – in Adobe Captivate 5.5
- Object Shadows – in Adobe Captivate 5.5
- Gradients – in Adobe Captivate 5.5
Actionscript
- ActionScript Technology Center
- Learning ActionScript 3 PDF
Variables
- Variables: Simple Usage
- Creating dynamic presentations with variables [PDF]
- Use Power of Variables in Captivate 5 (4) - without advanced actions
- Adobe Captivate 5 system variables
- pipwerks » Complete List of Variables for Adobe Captivate 5 [ PDF ]
  - Captivate 4 variables gone wild [ PDF ]
- Captain Captivate
  - Useful Captivate 4 Variables
- Captivate Widgets Tutorial: Create your first Widget
- Tracking User Progress in Captivate 4 Using Variables and Actions
- Tutorial on scripting (Captivate 4 help)
- Adobe Captivate 4 Undocumented Variables and Hack
- Constructing Test with Multiple Results (CP5)
- Customized Course menu, based on a pretest (CP5)
Widgets
- Adobe Captivate 5.5 and Widgets
- Adobe Captivate Widgets
- Introduction to Adobe Captivate 4 widgets
- Custom Certificate Widget AS3 Captivate 5
- Intelligent Print Widget
- Adding Learner Certificates to Presenter and Captivate Courses
Reviewing Adobe Captivate projects (help files)
Mobile learning: Adobe Captivate content on video iPod devices
Publishing Adobe Captivate files on YouTube
Exporting your Adobe Captivate project to Flash
Introduction to the Vector Image Format
File Formats and Compression
Choosing a Digital Video File Type
Daveperso's Articulate eLearning Blog
Tackling a New Captivate Project
Smaller / Faster Adobe Captivate Output
Customizing the Project Interface with Adobe Captivate 5: TOC, skin editor and project resize
Accessibility
- Captivate Accessibility Hints
- 508 Compliance: Adobe Captivate and Screen Readers (12-03-2009)
- Reposition Closed Captions Widget
- Adobe Captivate 5 Widget: Reposition Closed Captions
- Accessibility Introduction to the Screen Reader
Audio/Narration
- Free Audio Applications
- When It Makes Sense to Pay for Professional Narration
- Audiovisual Signal Types and Interconnects
- Microphone Guide
- Microphone Technique
- 4 Simple Tips for Recording High-Quality Audio
- 13 More Tips to Help You Record Narration Like the Pros
- Build Your Own Microphone Pop Screen
- Soundbooth Integration with Captivate
- Text-to-Speech
  - SSML (speech synthesis markup language).
  - Speech Synthesis Markup Language
  - VTML (VoiceText™ Markup Language) Tag Set (pdf)
  - NeoSpeech Text-to-Speech
  - Transforming the narration of text using Loquendo Tags
  - AT&T Labs Natural Voices® Text-to-Speech Demo
  - Quick Tip: Adobe Captivate Text to Speech files and Trial Downloads
  - Adobe Captivate 5 text-to-speech converters | Download location
  - Voices for Captivate 5 (The Captivate 5.5 voice packs don't work for Captivate 5.)
    - NeoSpeech
      - download NeoSpeech voices "Paul" and "Kate"
    - Loquendo
      - download Loquen voices
Video
- Adding Flash Video to Adobe Captivate projects (PDF)
- Best practices to use slide videos effectively
- Workaround for video streaming issues in Captivate
- Using slide video
- Publish projects as MP4 files (5.5)
- Uploading projects to YouTube
  - David's FeedMe: A Captivate Project
- Best Practices for Publishing to YouTube in the New Adobe Captivate 5.5 (R J Jacquez)
Output Options in Captivate
- Part 1: An Overview of Tracking Options
- Part 2: AICC Tracking
Aggregator
- Aggregator – What's new in Adobe Captivate 5?
- Combining multiple SCOs with aggregator
- Combining multiple SWF files with aggregator
- Adobe Captivate: Looking to Combine SWFs Into One Menu? Think Aggregator!
- How Do I Stop Aggregator from Daisy Chaining My Movies? (Click Box or Button)
- Daisy Chaining Tutorial
- Solution for Adobe Captivate 4 AS3 aggregated SWF not working on Latest Flash Player (10.1.102.64)
Full Motion Recording (FMR)
- Adobe Captivate: FMRs Rule?
- FMRs With all the Trimmings
- Adobe Captivate Full Motion Recording (FMR) Editor (Captivate 3)
PowerPoint and Captivate
- PowerPoint workflows in Adobe Captivate 5
- We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint
- Good Powerpoint® != Good eLearning
- Creating Adobe Captivate projects from Microsoft PowerPoint [PDF]
- How to synchronize audio when importing PowerPoint
- Adobe Captivate 4: PowerPoint Updates A Problem? Not Anymore!
- PowerPoint Linked vs Embedded Import
- Best practices for handling PowerPoint audio in Captivate
- PowerPoint Blog
  - Adobe Captivate's Storyboard View: Similarity for PowerPoint Users
  - Adobe Captivate's New Roundtrip PowerPoint Workflow
- How to add a Shockwave Flash control to a slide in PowerPoint
- The Power of PowerPoint Master Slides in eLearning
Master Slides
- Adobe Captivate 5 – Master Slides CP Guru - Adobe Captivate E-learning Blog
- Adobe Captivate 5: One Masterful Slide I Came, I Saw, I Learned...
- master slides and changing requirements in a eLearning project The Adobe Captivate Blog
- Working with Project Templates and Master Slides in Adobe Captivate 5
- Videos
  - Adobe TV
  - Lodestone
Mobile
- The How & Why of iPads, HTML5 & Mobile Devices in eLearning, Training & Education
- A Web Developer Speaks: Flash Player is Dead. HTML5 isn't ready. Long live AIR!
- HTML5 Converter for Adobe Captivate 5.5 | convert SWF to HTML5 - Adobe Labs
  - Forums: HTML5 Converter for Adobe Captivate 5.5
  - Release Notes (PDF)
- HTML5 Converter for Adobe Captivate (see limitations)
- HTML5 Converter for Adobe Captivate: Take II | Adobe in eLearning & mLearning
- 5 simple steps to get started with the Cp-HTML5 converter
- Convert Your Cool Captivate Quizzes to HTML5 Format!
  - HTML5 Quiz for iPad
- Publish to iPhone – From Captivate 5 and eLearning Suite 2
  - Creating an iPhone application installer file using the Packager for iPhone included with in Flash Professional CS5
Quiz
- Adobe Captivate 5.5: Quizzes To Write Home About
- Adobe Captivate 5.5 | Quiz Templates
Templates
- How to Make a Captivate Template (Free Sample Included)
Photoshop and Fireworks
- Fireworks for Photoshop Users
  - Importing Photoshop files into Fireworks
  - Fireworks for Photoshop Users: Layers
LMS and SCORM Issues
- Demystifying Captivate–LMS integration
- SCORM improvements – Adobe Captivate 5.5
- SCORM Packager view demo (available only with the eLearning Suite)
- Adobe Captivate: Yo, Need a SCO? Share a TOC via the SCORM Packager!
- LMS reporting enhancements in Captivate 4
- SCORM 2004 4th Edition Content Examples Version 1.0
- SCORM 2004 4th Edition Version 1.1.1 Test Suite
- Adobe Captivate and the ADL SCORM Test Suite 1.2.7
- LMS reporting enhancements in Captivate 4
- Tips and Tricks: Secrets to Macromedia Captivate & SCORM-Compliant Learning Management System Integration
- Captivate - LMS - SCORM communication problems
- Tracking Adobe Captivate and Adobe Presenter Results in a Proprietary System
- Creating LMS agnostic courses in Flash using the new LMS Adapter
- Articulate, Captivate, and Noob Hell
- Open Source LMS – 10 Alternatives to Moodle
Reporting / Acrobat.com
- Report to Acrobat.com or internal server
- Reporting the Quiz Results to a local server Rapid eLearning | Adobe Captivate Blog
- Adobe Captivate Quiz Result Analyzer
- Adobe Captivate: Analyze and Chart Quiz Data Without an LMS
- Adobe Captivate: Analyze and Chart Quiz Data Without an LMS, Part II
- Adobe Captivate 5 includes Acrobat.com quiz reporting (Note the "Take the quiz here" demo)
- Learn how to use Acrobat.com as a Learning Management System for Captivate 5 projects. (video)
Review
- Using the AIR Review application
- Original CreateNewFolder.crev
- Reviewed CreateNewFolder.crev
- CreateNewFolder_reviewed.xml
Recover Lost Capticate Work
- How to recover lost work in Adobe Captivate 5
- Adobe Captivate 5: Cached Projects Can Save You Some Cash
- CP5 Project Cache: Behind the scenes
- Recovering the project

Examples

Adobe Captivate, Presenter & eLearning Suite Examples
USING URCHIN
Hotel Clerk Training Dealing with Conflicts (Captivate 3)
- dazzletech.com
Examples created with Adobe Captivate
- Gordon Computer

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Last updated: 17 January 2012