Adobe Captivate 4

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Adobe? Captivate? 4 software is packed with new features that help you work faster, collaborate more effectively, and create more realistic and engaging e-Learning content with advanced interactivity, software and scenario simulations, quizzes, tables of contents, widgets, and more—all without programming or multimedia skills.

Here are the top new features of Adobe Captivate 4:

SWF commenting Accelerate content creation cycles with real-time reviews in Adobe Captivate Reviewer, an Adobe AIR? application. Reviewers can add comments to your SWF files while playing them without having Adobe Captivate installed, and comments will be imported to the appropriate slides in your project.

Project templates Use enhanced project templates that make it easy for subject-matter experts to contribute instructionally sound content without compromising structure.

Customizable widgets Create more compelling learning experiences by including widgets such as games, question types, and more. Create widgets in Adobe Flash? Professional software, easily share them via Adobe Exchange?, and customize them to meet your content needs.

Round-trip PowerPoint workflow Leverage existing Microsoft? PowerPoint? 2007 (PPTX format) slides in your projects. Import slides with audio and interactivity, and easily update the imported content from Adobe Captivate, keeping your PowerPoint and Adobe Captivate files in sync with the linked import option.

Table of Contents and Aggregator Enable learners to easily navigate through content and track their progress with a multilevel Table of Contents. Also, use the Aggregator to combine multiple content modules to create a complete e-Learning course.

Text-to-speech functionality Keep learners tuned in to your content thanks to automatic voice-over functionality that turns text to high-quality speech.

Variables and Advanced Actions Use Variables to personalize the learning experience by using learner-provided data, such as the learner’s name, throughout a scenario. Use Advanced Actions to further configure and modify the experience by enabling conditional actions, or more than one action in an interaction.

Expanded output options Embed Adobe Captivate movies in Adobe PDF files to enliven text-based instructional content, or embed your movies in Adobe? Flex? content using Adobe? ActionScript? 3.0 publishing. Output AVI files for streaming on the web or publishing to YouTube?.

Adobe Photoshop layer support Preserve layers in imported Adobe? Photoshop? (PSD) files so you can easily edit or animate individual image areas for the effect you want.

Streamlined workflows and enhanced usability Use workflow and usability enhancements, including inline editing of text captions, templates to standardize the look and feel of projects, panning to optimize viewing on small screens and devices, support for right-clicking in simulations, drawing tools and image editing, and improved accessibility features.