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Adobe Captivate is an E-learning Windows authoring tool to create software demonstrations, software simulations, branched scenarios, and randomized quizzes in .swf format. It can also be used for Screencast s, Podcast s, and PowerPoint conversion to Flash files. FEATURES Captivate builds and edits interactive software demonstrations, simulations, podcasts, screencasts, games, program demos and lessons. For software demos, it can either record in real time or use a smart event-based screen capture that snaps a sequence of still images and then builds mouse movement simulations to create the appearance of a running program. By using Adobe Flash Tweening technology, Captivate is able to create screencasts in a much smaller filesize than needed for a real full-motion screen capture movie. Captivate users can edit Captivate presentations to add captions, clickable hotspots, text entry boxes, rollovers, videos, etc. Authors can edit the content (including mouse pointer path, position, image) and change the timing for each item to appear and disappear. The hotspots can branch to other slides in the presentation, or to outside webpages. E-learning authors can also provide multiple levels of feedback using multiple interactions per slide. Captivate supports the import of still images, PowerPoint, video, .SWF, and audio tracks onto any Captivate slide. The SWF output format supports computer platforms such as an Apple Macintosh, Linux Computer, or portable devices that support Flash. Captivate also supports 508 compliant ( Accessibility ) output and SCORM , AICC (CBT) and PENS (software) to track score data in LMSs (Learning Management Systems). HISTORY While the product started out as a pure screen recording utility known as Flashcam (Nexus Concepts 2002), it evolved into an E-learning authoring tool after San Diego-based eHelp Corporation acquired Flashcam and released it as RoboDemo. Eventually, software firm Macromedia acquired eHelp to gain RoboDemo. When Adobe Systems acquired Macromedia, they changed the name of the product to Captivate. VERSIONS
RELATED FILE FORMATS AND EXTENSIONS COMPARABLE SOFTWARE Camtasia Studio and Wink , MadCap Software Mimic are similar programs available for Windows and Linux . Wink is Freeware that allows for export to EXE , PDF , HTML , or PostScript as well as SWF . SEE ALSO Adobe Flash EXTERNAL LINKS
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