I feel like the team quickly scrambled to make sure the next version of Captivate could include some of the same features that Storyline users have come to love since the launch, for example Interactions, Themes, Actors, etc. I can’t tell you what that is because of confidentiality, but I can tell you that it would have been revolutionary and a real game-changer and without this, it’s tough for me to pick that one killer feature that I believe every product launch should come with.Īfter playing around with the trial, my first impressions unfortunately aren’t positive, to me the product feels half-baked, almost rushed (perhaps just in time for mLearnCon?), some of the new features feel disjointed and out of place and if you want my honest opinion, it feels like in the middle of development, the team changed directions most likely because Articulate launched Storyline. In fact there was one killer feature related to mobile learning (mLearning) that we had talked about as a team, but its nowhere in Captivate 6. The thing is, almost nothing I thought would be in the product ended up making in Adobe Captivate 6. Well, actually I did have an idea of what to expect, or at least I thought I did, since I was part of the initial talks for what would be in the next release of the product, right before leaving the company. Like many of you, I too watched some of the sneak peeks the team was showing off in preparation for the launch, but other than that, I had no idea what to expect.
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I did not participate in the beta program, nor was I invited by my old PR team to be part of the press tour, so my very first look at the new Captivate 6 was the day it was announced, after downloaded a trial copy. It has now been 6 months since I left Adobe and this is the first version of Captivate that I get to explore from the outside. Then in the meeting room select Share Document in the share pod and select your Captivate file from the Content Library.Ĭheck out the video below to see how I used these tools to set up my lobby.First off, congratulations to my old team at Adobe for launching Adobe Captivate 6. Background audio automatically loops and doesn’t get interrupted by slide changes. Captivate output is Flash and won’t be displayed on mobile devices.) In Captivate, you would import you music as background audio. (One caveat about this though, don’t use Captivate if you think some of your attendees might be using mobile devices. There is an alternative if you want to have everything together in the same Share pod, and that is to use Adobe Captivate. Rather, I’ll have one Share pod for the music and another for the presentation. With Adobe Presenter, I typically would not combine the music and the slides in the same presentation because when the presentation transitions from one slide to the next the music is interrupted. You can also use Adobe Presenter to create a visual slide presentation that plays in your lobby and continues to loop back and replay over and over until the webinar begins. A second benefit to using Adobe Presenter is that you can set the presentation to loop so the audio will continue to play again and again. One nice thing about using Adobe Presenter for music is that you can include a nice image.
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Now this won’t loop back and start playing from the beginning, so you need to make sure your mp3 file is long enough to last the entire pre-presentation lobby period.Īnother way to add music is to use Adobe Presenter, an add-in for PowerPoint that lets you add media to your presentation. Upload that to a share pod and you have an instant music player. One option you have for adding music to your meeting room is to simply use an MP3 file. The second purpose the music serves is to allow attendees to make sure their speakers are on, their volume is turned up and they are ready to listen when the presentation starts. First, it’s entertaining enough that it might hold the attendee’s attention on the meeting room until the presentation starts.
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One of the things I like to do in my webinars is set up a lobby with some kind of music and maybe some looping content that plays until the presentation begins. In my role here at InteSolv I conduct a lot of training webinars for Adobe and for ourselves.