> Nor are suggestions to leave a
> message in Adobe's Suggestion Box for help... when,
exactly, would that
> be?
I know it seems like bug reports and suggestions are ignored,
because we all
want our OWN pet issues dealt with, but Adobe does read every
submission via
the bug/suggestion form. Unless it is a showstopper, the
standard practice
is to weigh up the relative value of each item, and the
report count of an
issue, and create a list of priorities for action through the
next official
release. Usually the release cycle is 18 months to two years.
> And
> the idea that Adobe's developers and marketers flat out
ignore these User
> forums is simply appalling-- you could hardly ask for a
more concise
> definition
> of "bad vendor" than that!
This is untrue. Adobe does pay attention to the traffic on
user forums.
Depending on the product, you may even see Adobe engineers
monitoring *and
posting* to the user forums, but as each product team has its
own methods
and preferences, then you don't see that across the board.
Each product has
Community Experts who are volunteers with numerous
responsibilities, one of
which is to watch for issues and bring them to Adobe's
attention.
>
> Using Captivate as the container within which to publish
a MOVIE just
> because
> some part of the movie's content includes a short screen
capture demo is
> absurd.
That, of course, depends upon your exact needs.
> But that appears to be the Captivate paradigm, given
that there are no
> viable export options to video formats and Adobe's own
video editing
> software--PremierPro--refuses to accept SWF (and FLV
too, i.e. Flash
> VIDEO,
> there's another great definition of what it means to be
a bad vendor).
Captivate is intended to create interactive output. Sure I
can see why
sometimes you might want a flat, non-interactive
presentation, so I agree
that export to AVI or similar is an omission, but I think it
is a reasonable
one when you consider that the typical user of Captivate is
non-technical in
nature and may be particularly purturbed to discover that the
vast majority
of Captivate's features (all of the interactive ones) will
not export to
AVI. I guess Adobe's choice up to now has been that AVI
export is a nice to
have for a minority of users.
By the way, if you already have a swf, you can export this
from Flash to
QuickTime. Then you can import that to Premier.
> ? I tried capturing the Captivate show off of two
separate presentation
> platforms: Internet Explorer, and also directly in Adobe
Flash Player 9
> (which
> of course is the application that runs inside IE when
you play the show in
> IE,
> but what the heck). The direct-Flash Player 9 effort was
interesting--
> when I
> set the screen capture software (ZD Soft) to capture
just the FP9 window
> it
> reports that the window is empty(?), although the show
plays. Oh, Adobe,
> how
> clever thou art.
Did you, by any chance, try using Captivate's own full motion
recording?
Steve
--
Adobe Community Expert: eLearning, Mobile and Devices
European eLearning Summit - EeLS
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