Adobe Captivate 5 (Win)

Add software demonstrations, interactive simulations, branching scenarios, and quizzes to your courseware without programming using Adobe Captivate 5 software. Go beyond screen capture and achieve superior results in fewer steps thanks to an intuitive user interface, collaboration workflows, and a multitude of timesaving features. Easily integrate your content with eLearning applications and leading SCORM- and AICC-compliant Learning Management Systems to deliver content virtually anywhere.

Rapidly create, smoothly deliver, and easily maintain rich eLearning content
Adobe Captivate 5 software offers exciting new features for authoring professional content, including an optimized user interface, rich animation effects, multivideo support and synchronization, personalized workspaces, quick project-wide formatting, and collaboration and tracking using Acrobat.com, an Adobe CS Live online service.

NEW FEATURES

• Optimized user interface - New
  Get going faster, do the job in fewer steps, and improve the overall authoring experience with the Property inspector, a multiple document interface, and personalized workspaces.
• Object Styles - New
  Define styles and apply them to selected objects for quick and consistent formatting across a project.
• Master Slides - New
  Use Master Slides to easily create and maintain well-formatted and consistent-looking content that meets corporate guidelines.
• Rich animation effects - New
  Create rich object animations within Adobe Captivate 5 by combining predefined effects like straight-line motion, rotation, and glow. For added impact, smoothly import custom animation effects from Adobe Flash Professional software.
• Multivideo support and synchronization - New
  Import video in a wide variety of formats (AVI, MOV, FLV, MPEG) and synchronize it with the project, slide, or set of slides.
• Hosting and collaboration via Acrobat.com - New
  Host published or in-progress eLearning projects on Acrobat.com, an Adobe CS Live online service, and share them with learners and reviewers, who can access them from virtually anywhere.
• Tracking and reporting - New
  Satisfy basic evaluation needs at no extra cost by tracking and reporting key performance metrics, such as average score and pass or fail rates, without having to invest in a Learning Management System.
• Community Help
  Access a large repository of help content, generated by Adobe and the user community at large, using an Adobe AIR application.
• In-context learner collaboration via Twitter - New
  Leverage the Twitter widget from Adobe to create courses that let learners collaborate with one another as well as the author by just logging into their Twitter account. They can ask questions, get answers, and access pre-existing discussions.
• Expanded asset library - Enhanced
  Get a larger set of prebuilt widgets, playbars, skins, stock animations, images, text captions, and buttons with superior aesthetics and usability.

TOP FEATURES

• Rapid content development
  Get started quickly with a friendly user interface, built-in tutorials, and the ability to create software training by recording any application. Add audio by converting text to speech in a few clicks.
• Efficient collaboration
  Collaborate effectively with features like templates, which enable team members to contribute content without modifying a project's design, and the new Adobe Captivate Reviewer, an Adobe AIR application that lets reviewers enter comments directly on your SWF files.
• Easy SWF file creation
  Keep learners engaged with smoothly integrated audio, video for Adobe Flash software, and rich interactivity. Adobe Captivate automatically generates a SWF file -- complete with a preloader, playback controls, voice-over, and Table of Contents -- from slide-based content, which can be e-mailed or delivered via websites, blogs, intranets, and online help systems.
• Roundtrip PowerPoint workflow
  Leverage existing Microsoft PowerPoint slides in your projects. Import slides with audio and interactivity, easily update the content, and keep your PowerPoint and Adobe Captivate files in sync with the dynamically linked import option.
• Rich media and image support
  Create engaging eLearning experiences by incorporating images, animations, audio, and video in multiple file formats. Use the built-in library to quickly access and manage media files of your project, drag and drop objects from the library onto slides, or import libraries from other projects.
• Complex interactivity without programming
  Increase content effectiveness by easily adding interactivity, including quizzes with scoring and branching and different kinds of interactive elements. Enhance content with Variables, Advanced Actions, and new customizable widgets such as games, charts, and new question types.
• Integration with eLearning applications and SCORM- and AICC-compliant Learning Management Systems
  Leverage existing resources by integrating simulations with other eLearning tools. Adobe Captivate supports SCORM 2004, SCORM 1.2, and AICC and offers one-click publishing to Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro software.
• Robust assessments
  Create quizzes from a large variety of question types, and improve assessments by randomizing questions from a question pool. Shuffle answers at runtime to display multiple-choice options in a different order each time.
• Custom controls, templates, and Skins
  Develop and customize captions and playback controls to match corporate identity or an application's interface. Create eye-catching Skins with tables of contents to display any set of Adobe Captivate projects.
• Support for multiple formats, including AVI and PDF
  Author once and generate multiple file formats for easy distribution. Output to AVI for viewing on YouTube and a variety of mobile devices; embed Adobe Captivate movies in Adobe PDF files; and more.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Windows

• 1GHz or faster processor Intel Pentium 4, Intel Centrino, Intel Xeon, or Intel Core Duo (or compatible) processor
• Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (Service Pack 3 recommended); Windows Vista Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise with Service Pack 1; or Windows 7
• 1GB minimum RAM (2GB recommended)
• 3GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on flash-based storage devices)
• DVD-ROM drive
• 1,024x576 display (1,280x1024 recommended) with 16-bit video card
• Broadband Internet connection required for online services.

Mac

• Multicore Intel processor
• Mac OS X v10.5.7 or v10.6
• 1GB minimum RAM (2GB recommended)
• 3GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on flash-based storage devices)
• DVD-ROM drive
• 1,024x576 display (1,280x1024 recommended) with 16-bit video card
• Broadband Internet connection required for online services.

Language version
This product is available in the following languages:

• English
• French
• German
• Italian
• Japanese
• Korean
• Spanish

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