2 Replies Latest reply: Nov 9, 2013 5:54 PM by rygaar RSS

    Sound lost when publishing to Youtube

    rygaar Community Member

      Using Adobe Captivate Video Publisher to post a project to YouTube goes through the following steps:

       

      1) Saving SWF file

      2) Generate video

      3) Accept terms and provide youtube login

      4) Upload video

       

      My questions:

      1) where does the Publisher application store the video file generated before it is uploaded? I'd like to examine that file. Cancelling the process after generating the video just closes the Publisher application without giving any indication of where the file might be.

       

      2) The youtube movie generated has no audio, even though the project has audio and publishing to SWF preserves the audio (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRcS3G3-aIY). Anyone else ran into this problem?

       

      About the project:

      The project is a recorded demonstration with one widget (http://www.cpguru.com/domainlock-widget-for-adobe-captivate/) and one Advanced Action (cpCmndPause=1 on Exit last slide). There is no other interaction, so I figured the Video Publisher would strip these two features and publish the project without incident.

       

      EDIT: I am using Captivate 7

        • 1. Re: Sound lost when publishing to Youtube
          rygaar Community Member

          I thought maybe oen workaround to getting the narration audio into the YouTube movie would be to export the audio from within Captivate, then add it to the video from within the YouTube video management panel. The problems with this approach are:

           

          1) This is an extremely inefficient way to publish the video to YouTube

          2) The audio will probably be out of sync with the video

          3) Within the Advanced Audio Mangement tool in CP7, I don't see a way to export the project audio as a single file. Rather I can export individual slide audios, which I would have to do for 100 or 150 slides for each project; not practical.

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          • 2. Re: Sound lost when publishing to Youtube
            rygaar Community Member

            Quick update: the Adobe Captivate Video Publisher saves the generated video file to the local AppData folder. On Windows 7, this is "C:\Users\[User]\AppData\Local\Temp" where [User] refers to the currently logged in username. The Video Publisher stores the mp4 file that gets uploaded to YouTube in this directory under filename VideoPublisher*.mp4 where * is replaced with a string of digits.

             

            For the video I tested, the published SWF's size is 3850KB while the MP4's size is 6703KB.