Powerful interactive tool for teaching simulations, scenarios and soft skills.

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Product Description

- Marketing Information: Adobe Captivate 2 software enables anyone to rapidly create powerful and engaging simulations, software demonstrations, and scenario-based training without programming knowledge or multimedia skills. Product Information - Software Sub Type: Web Designing/Publishing - Software Name: Captivate v.2.0 - Complete Product - Features and Benefits: Getting started and recording: - Scenario simulation - Automatic recording - Smart full-motion recording - Recording modes - Audio at capture time - AutoText Captions feature - Customizable recording window size - Project templates Editing: - Visual Timeline in Edit view - Visual Branching view - Library - Launch and edit capability - Customizable workspace - Audio editing - Storyboards - Edit view with filmstrip - Unicode support Special effects and rich media support: - Zoom Object - Grayout - Customizable captions - Image insert - Text animations - Rich media import - Microsoft PowerPoint import Output: - Multiple output formats - Skins and menus - Handouts - Accessible content - Project resizing - Text for translation - E-mail export - Access control - Customizable playback controls Integration: - Macromedia Flash export - Adobe Connect integration - Adobe Connect Training integration - SCORM/AICC compliance (LMS integration) - Macromedia Authorware support - Question mark Perception support eLearning and interactivity: - Quizzing - Branching - Scoring - Advanced Interaction dialog bo

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #9442 in Software
• Brand: Adobe
• Model: 38037003
• Platform: No Operating System
• Format: CD
• Dimensions: 3.00 pounds

Features

• Brand new Full Retail box

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Customer Reviews

Two words - Buy Camtasia!
I picked Adobe Captivate over Camtasia because of their reputation. Boy was I wrong. For creating web demos, Captivate is nothing more than a gloried version of Powerpoint. It does not record dynamic content on a web page (like Flash, movies, or AJAX activity), and cannot keep up with multiple web page clicks. I get many blank slides and off kilter slides that take me hours to edit.

If you are looking for true webcasting software, but Camtasia.

I use it every day and give it about a 2.5
I'll begin by saying that, once you have a little practice, Captivate 2 will give you a very slick tutorial. I found I was able to get going quickly. It's fairly intuitive, which explains a fairly thin instruction manual. I use a Blue (brand) Snowball USB microphone that works great.

HOWEVER, for a piece of software that retails well over $1,000.00 (US), I'm appalled by the inconsistencies and bugs. In addition, I'm shocked that even though I reported a legitimate bug, they told me directly that they had no idea when it would be fixed - or if it would be fixed at all!!

I have come across scores of other little irritations that I haven't bothered to call in to them because of their poor reception. I routinely am unable to copy script text from one slide to another (instead I have to paste it into an outside text program like Noetpad, recopy it from there and then paste it into the other slide); my menus often refuse to stay open - I have to close and restart the program to clear that one up; and, if I delete a slide, the slide after the deleted one loses any script text which is replaced with the text from slide #1 of the show.

Adobe is known for expensive programs. But I thought they were also known for quality programs. Quite honestly I don't hate this program (I use it daily and get good results - now that I figured out all the workarounds), but I'm sure glad I didn't pay for it out of my own pocket.

Great system for etraining
I've created several tutorials and the performance, functionality and features have been much improved over version 1. A lot of basics are now included like alignment and other font styles that were certainly missed when creating professional tutorials and rapid learning experiences before. The audio voiceovers provide an easy way to add scripted voice to the system. Downside are that I cannot get this to work with Windows Vista programs, I think another upgrade or patch is required.