PE3_Captivate

Adobe Captivate

Even though I'm a little over 3 hours into the captivate training it still feels like power-point to me. I know it can do way more, I've seen the demos and it's incredible. There is still over 4 1/2 hours of training to go. The next chapter to go through is adding audio and video. This will be one of my most exciting features to work with inside of Captivate. 

I did have a strange experience with Adobe help. Inside of captivate there is a feature called roundtripping. This means that you can move the project currently being worked on in Captivate to other Adobe products. For instance if you want to make some changes to a photo inside of 

captivate you can send it directly do Photoshop make the changes and it will automatically be updated inside of Captivate. This is a great workflow solution to help speed everything up. 

The catch is you have to purchase what is called the Adobe e-learning suite which is a little over $1300.00. What I find strange is that everything in the e-learning suite with the exception of Adobe Presenter is already installed on my MacBookPro with Adobe Master Collection. So I tried this roundtripping feature with the idea that I already have these Adobe products installed. it did not work. I called Adobe help desk and they told me that I would have to buy the e-learning suite for the roundtripping feature to work, the code is built into the system you buy not the individual programs. They went on to say I would have to uninstall my Master Collection and install my e-learning suite. I told them there are programs inside the Master Collection that I use everyday and I cannot do this. I even pointed out that it is impossible to have two different copies of the same program on my machine, they agreed. They had no answer at this point.

They said my ticket will be sent to sales and they may be able to help. After I hung up with the help desk I received an e-mail from that specific thicket that said my case has been resolved and it's been closed. So now I will have to do some more digging to see if there is a resolution for this issue. Regardless this will not be a hindrance for my ability to use Captivate with other Adobe products. I will just have to go the traditional route of taking one project to another program.