#Youtube adobe captivate install
By the way, in case it matters, this test file was set to 800 x 600 pixels with a default slide time of three seconds.Īfter some more internet searching, I discovered that there’s an Adobe product - Adobe Media Encoder - that’s automatically installed when you install Captivate 5. Oh, and when uploaded, the resulting video on YouTube was a bit fuzzy. Not very helpful or useful - files that size just clog the ‘intertubes’. My tiny test file had one image, three 3-second slides with minimal text, and no audio, yet publishing it to *.F4V created a file that was almost 12 MB. It’s also not documented in the Help (a search of the Help for YouTube gave no results).Ĭaptivate 5 will publish to *.F4V format and YouTube will accept those files, BUT… and it’s a big BUT… the files created are BIG. and testing possible solutions to find out that publishing a Captivate file to a format suitable for YouTube is possible, but it’s a bit obscure and requires the use of another program. This is a paid upgrade for Captivate 5 owners.)Īnd how do I know this? Because I just spent a couple of hours searching Adobe’s Help, Forums, the internet etc.
( Update June 2011: It seems the newly released Captivate 5.5 will save to formats acceptable to YouTube. It seems that Captivate 4 could save as *.AVI, but that option is not available in Captivate 5 (why on earth would Adobe *remove* features?). I was always under the impression that later versions of Adobe Captivate could publish to a format suitable for uploading to YouTube.