Have been spending sometime looking into a good way to build an Avatar, or "Talking Head" for Captivate Simulations.
I came across a really good tutorial for building a talking head in flash and syncing it with Audio:
http://www.flashframer.com/create-a-realistic-flash-animation-lip-sync/
But how do we apply this to a Captivate Simulation?
Here is the strategy:
1. Build your Captivate Simulation
2. Using advanced audio, export the audio to mp3(s)
3. Using flash, import those mp3's to use as the sound, follow the above tutorial to build your talking head, synced with the audio.
4. Remove the audio from your Flash project and publish, now it should just be your talking head animation.
5. Return to captivate, on the first slide choose to import an Animation, select your talking head swf.
6. In the options panel for the swf select Show for rest of project, and select Synchronize with project.
This is just a basic strategy feel free to adjust it for your own project (maybe you just need a talking head for slide 2 and so on)...
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Thursday, August 6, 2009
Friday, July 17, 2009
Fixing Captivate Slowdown
Quick note on a problem i've encountered with Adobe Captivate.
It's seems that when working with some larger simulations with audio my captivate files become increasingly large in filesize and in turn cause the program to run very slowly.
I'm certain that this is because I was doing a lot of editing with the internal audio editor (cutting/pasting and moving slide cues around). Anyways there is a way to quickly solve the issue:
(Note: I suggest saving a backup of your file prior to this, not that anything could possibly go wrong....)
1. In the advanced audio options, choose to export your audio as one mp3.
2. In the advanced audio options, delete all the audio from your slides.
3. Run Captivate again so you have two windows, create a new blank project.
4. Copy all your slides from your project and paste into the blank project.
5. Import the exported mp3 on the first slide and choose to "Retain Current Slide Timing and distribute audio files over several slides"
6. Save your new smaller quicker project and get back to work!
It's seems that when working with some larger simulations with audio my captivate files become increasingly large in filesize and in turn cause the program to run very slowly.
I'm certain that this is because I was doing a lot of editing with the internal audio editor (cutting/pasting and moving slide cues around). Anyways there is a way to quickly solve the issue:
(Note: I suggest saving a backup of your file prior to this, not that anything could possibly go wrong....)
1. In the advanced audio options, choose to export your audio as one mp3.
2. In the advanced audio options, delete all the audio from your slides.
3. Run Captivate again so you have two windows, create a new blank project.
4. Copy all your slides from your project and paste into the blank project.
5. Import the exported mp3 on the first slide and choose to "Retain Current Slide Timing and distribute audio files over several slides"
6. Save your new smaller quicker project and get back to work!
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