You can export a project from Adobe Captivate to Flash. You can enhance it or integrate it into a larger project.

When you export an Adobe Captivate project into Adobe Flash, the project is imported directly to the Stage. The imported project contains layers for each type of object. Appropriate Flash methods are used to enable any Adobe Captivate special effects (for example, tweens to move the mouse pointer). The Flash Library panel shows all objects created for the Adobe Captivate project, organized logically into folders.

Import of the following slide elements are supported: highlight box, captions, animation, click box, text entry box, and rollover caption.

Most elements in your projects are converted so they look and operate the same in Flash as in Adobe Captivate, but here are a few exceptions:

• Question slides

• Imported mouse paths are linear, and not curved like in Adobe Captivate.

• Advanced compression

• Playback controller

• 508 compliance

• Drawing objects

• Interactive objects are not completely supported.

• Slide transitions (fade between slides)

Use the Flash Library and movie clip objects to create reusable elements from the original project.

When you become familiar with the structure of the project in Flash, you can easily change your entire project or place Adobe Captivate elements in it. All the Adobe Captivate project elements are stored in the Flash Library and organized into folders. Navigate through these folders to select elements for editing.

The following layers are seen in the Timeline when you open an Adobe Captivate project in Flash.

Preloader

This is the file that plays until the movie is downloaded to the user’s computer. For example, you could have a GIF file that informs the player that the movie is being downloaded until the download is complete.

Actions

The global actions defined in a movie. You can define global variables and declarations using the Actions layer in the Timeline.

Slides

Contains the imported slides in the order in which they appear in the movie.

When you double-click the slide, the Timeline in the next view contains objects corresponding to that slide. Use the Timeline to edit the various objects on the slide. Keep double-clicking an object to edit its different parts. The Timeline changes to reflect the various parts of the object.

Remember these points when you navigate:

• In the Library panel, a folder named Adobe Captivate Objects contains all slides and objects in the project. (You can ignore the objects listed with the prefix “xrd”; these objects are images and sounds that are used in other objects.) To edit your project, double-click a library item and edit it. The “xrd” files are shown in a folder in the library.

• Another way to navigate is to double-click elements on the Stage (in Flash). For example, to edit a movie, double-click the movie on the Stage. To navigate to an element on a slide, click in the Timeline. Position the playhead to show an object on the slide (such as a caption or highlight box). Then double-click the object to edit it. This method has the advantage of showing each element and object in the context in which it is used.

• Unlike Adobe Captivate, Flash does not show all objects at one time; Flash uses the Timeline to represent when different objects are shown. Click in the Timeline or drag the playhead to preview the project.

• The Library panel organizes your project and all of the elements it contains, such as slides, captions, and sounds, into a hierarchy of folders.

You can now record applications in all Adobe Captivate recording modes from within the Adobe Flash workspace (without launching Adobe Captivate).