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1. ADOBE CAPTIVATE VS CAMTASIA FULL
2. ADOBE CAPTIVATE VS CAMTASIA PRO
3. ADOBE CAPTIVATE VS CAMTASIA SOFTWARE

I have just come to realize that it is not the rapid e-learning savior I had hoped it would be. I do not hate Captivate - in fact I use it often. Some things can only be learned through experience. If I had known this I would have purchased a different product (probably Articulate).

But in practice (for me) it only does a few things well (and some things it does poorly, like importing PPT files, or editing full-motion screen captures). My main complaint is that Captivate is promoted to be a type of "Swiss Army knife" product that does many things well. It has not delivered on that expectation. I have been disappointed because my expectation was that Captivate could become my main rapid elearning tool. I had hoped Captivate would be the best choice to solve many of my needs. Instead, I chose Captivate because I have had good experiences with other Adobe products, because Captivate was the top choice in a survey from the eLearning Guild, and because Captivate's feature set included the ability to convert PPT to SWF. I am like you in that my budget did not allow me to purchase several products to create my own custom Rapid e-Learning suite.

(2) There are other applications with similar features to Captivate and Articulate, such as DemoCreator which you mention. Thank you for you clarification - you are correct on all your points: (1) Adobe Presenter is the flagship product from Adobe touted for converting PPT into SWF.

ADOBE CAPTIVATE VS CAMTASIA PRO

But it just doesn't deliver the goods like PhotoShop, Illustrator or Premiere Pro does. Believe it or not I use PowerPoint quite a bit I just import them into Captivate files and manipulate from there - but even here Captivate has less than stunning capabilities, whereas Articulate appears to do a better job. I had hoped to also use it (Captivate) to output PowerPoints into Flash SWF files too.

ADOBE CAPTIVATE VS CAMTASIA SOFTWARE

Actually, there's probably not a total e-learning solution from anyone.Ĭaptivate and Articulate are probably better suited for software simulations and branching scenarios. But the way I see it, TechSmith's products are not designed to be a total e-learning solution, but rather a part of a complete solution: the screen capturing portion. In fact programmers from Captivate have migrated to Articulate I'm told by someone at Articulate. The way I see it, Captivate's main competitor is Articulate and perhaps a nod to TechSmith's products SnagIt and Camtasia. I like their products and workflow and integration, etc. I'm an Adobe fan-boy - I have the Creative Suite CS2 (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, ImageReady) I have Acrobat Standard I have Premiere Pro 2.0 and Captivate 3.

You should check out this blog ( ) and see if you start drooling over Articulate's products instead of the Adobe lust that most of us suffer.

ADOBE CAPTIVATE VS CAMTASIA FULL

So I would recommend looking for another application other than Captivate 3 for your full motion video screen captures. When you want to add in captions or buttons later, you have to copy/paste them from slide to slide until you reach your desired duration. Rather than displaying the entire capture in a single long timeline, you get several slides, each with its own short timeline. This in itself doesn't seem to be a problem, but it is when you want to edit your captured video. My complaint about full motion video captures with Captivate 3 is that it captures by creating several small packets of full motion video. I might agree with this statement (but I haven't any experience with Camtasia). You were told video should be captured in Camtasia, but flash quizzes and post production should be finalized in Captivate. I can say that for full motion video capture, Captivate 3 may work for you, but I feel it is less than stellar in this particular function. I have not used Camtasia, but I do use Captivate 3.