Hey everyone,
So my team just switched from Presenter to Captivate and we create what we call multimedia archives. They're repackaged Connect web meetings that have the PPT slides, the audio, any downloadable materials, and a transcript. With Presenter we would use the Notes pod and put the transcript text for each slide in the notes field. This worked great as it was compliant, it stayed out of the way for users who didn't need it, and it could hold different text for each slide. Unfortunately, Captivate doesn't have this option. I played with a few things and the closest thing I came up with is the Scrolling Text interaction which would work similarly. While this would be mostly acceptable, there's a bug that truncates the interaction if you adjust the width to be too narrow when exporting as HTML (SWF works, but it's not an option for us). I used the Web Object interaction to link to the entire transcript with anchor tags at each slide break, but anchors aren't supported by the interaction.
And lastly, the built-in CC tools are not an option for our long archives because they can be 5 hours or more. These are all day meetings, and we just don't have the time to use Captivates mediocre built-in CC tools to caption our archives.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how we can either utilize Captivate's tools in a way that I haven't thought of yet, is there a custom widget out there that could help, or anything else that might help us? Captivate is superior to Presenter in every way, but we at least had a working solution there. And again, it must be HTML-friendly.
Thanks a lot,
David