Hi Sam and welcome to our community
As far as I am aware RoboHelp will not let me link to the videos
directly because they cannot be part of the project.
I'm assuming that you are referring to the ability to just
create a hyperlink that points generically to the .SWF? If I'm
correct, of course you can. You just need to add the .SWF to the
RoboHelp Baggage Files area.
I have tried to resize the videos with a hml page by specifying
a percentage width and height and using a bit of javascript but
icouldn't seem to get anything to work; the video would scale to an
arbitrary percentage which was not relevant to window size or the
data I had input.
Out of curiosity, why the JavaScript? I think if I were in
your shoes, I'd perhaps try inserting the .SWF in a RoboHelp topic,
then locate the HTML code and see if I was able to insert a
percentage there. I'm not sure if this will work, as I've not tried
it. But it may be worth trying.
Does the way in which captivate exports the videos effect their
ability to scale?
The answer to this is a definite "Yes and No". When you
publish a Captivate movie, you also normally publish an associated
HTML file. The HTML file is intended to be placed in the same
general folder. Its purpose is to ensure your movie is presented to
your user at the same size you determined when you created it. This
is because everything inside a Captivate movie is bitmapped images.
And when you resize bitmapped images, the quality normally begins
to suffer.
Hopefully this helps... Rick