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-- Skip to main content Skip to sidebar IdeaScale Search Keywords Search Register Log in When you're ready. You can register or log in using the links up here. Dismiss Close Submit New Captivate Idea Adobe Captivate Ideas Ideas Toggle navigation More Pages Welcome (current) Ideas Submit New Captivate Idea × Register To Contribute Please create an account to cast your vote and join our community! Create Account Already have an account? Log in Sort By Popular Recent Ideas Popular Ideas (current) Hot Ideas Campaign All Ideas Submit New Captivate Idea Welcome to our community. In this community, you can submit ideas, vote on existing ideas, or add comments. To submit an idea, please click the Submit New Idea button at the top of the navigation sidebar. You will then be asked to add a title and choose a campaign for the new idea. You will also have the option to add tags to the idea. To vote on an idea, simply click the up or down arrows to the right of the idea title/description. And to add a comment , click in the box below the idea. If you would like to see all ideas created with a specific tag, you can click on the word or phrase via the tagcloud in the navigation sidebar area under "What we're discussing". You can also view ideas sorted by Campaigns from the right navigation area. To return to this page, click the All Ideas link. Recent Ideas Popular Ideas (current) Hot Ideas Submitted by Rod Ward (@rodward) 13/Dec/10 2:20 AM Quizzing/LMS Multiple Failure Levels for All Interactive Objects Allow buttons, clickboxes, and widgets to also have multiple failure levels like question slides currently do. This would enable me to have different audio files play at each subsequent unsuccessful attempt. For example: Attempt1 = "Sorry. That's incorrect." Attempt2 = "No that's not right either. Try again." Attempt3 = "Hmmm. Looks like you're not getting it. Let's try something else." Voting 36 votes Active In Progress Completed In Progress Submitted by Rod Ward (@rodward) 13/Dec/10 3:13 AM General Branched sections still get ticked in TOC In Cp4/Cp5 a TOC item that includes branched slides doesn't get ticked unless all slides are visited by the learner. The whole idea of branching is that users don't NEED to visit all slides. So the TOC item should be ticked when the branched section is completed. Voting 20 votes Active In Progress Completed In Progress Submitted by Rod Ward (@rodward) 13/Dec/10 3:26 AM Editing Ability to re-sync mouse cursor after FMV slides In Cp4/5, if you use FMV on a slide, the mouse starting position on the following slide is synced to the end position of the mouse on the slide prior to the FMV. This necessitates interpolating another very short duration (e.g. 0.1 second) slide to make the mouse jump to the right location. Would be easier if the developer could override the mouse starting position on any slide to sync as needed. Voting 6 votes Active In Progress Completed Active Submitted by Rod Ward (@rodward) 13/Dec/10 3:30 AM Widgets Digital Rights Management for Widgets Currently there is no way to effectively license Captivate widgets to prevent people making and distributing pirated copies. Widget developers will continue to be reluctant to invest much time in creating widgets if there is no way to protect their digital rights. Voting 9 votes Active In Progress Completed Active Submitted by Rod Ward (@rodward) 13/Dec/10 3:40 AM Audio/Video Add Previous and Next buttons to Slide Audio tabs In Captivate 5 the Slide Audio dialog has no Back and Next buttons that enable you to move from one slide to the next when making edits to audio files or CC text. Adding slide navigation to the Slide Audio dialog would make it much more usable. Voting 11 votes Active In Progress Completed Active Submitted by Rod Ward (@rodward) 13/Dec/10 3:52 AM Audio/Video Highlight active Closed Captioning line in Slide Audio dialog In Cp4, when you were editing the timing of Closed Captioning, the active CC line was highlighted as the audio played. This was a big help. This was not implemented in Cp5 but needs to be reinstated for Cp6. Voting 10 votes Active In Progress Completed Active Submitted by Rod Ward (@rodward) 13/Dec/10 3:57 AM Audio/Video Increase width of slide control in Slide Audio In the Slide Audio > Edit and Closed Captioning tabs there is a slide control that allows you to expand or shrink the view of the audio waveform. However, this slider control is too short to allow fine adjustment. Typing in a numeric value is too much trouble. There's plenth of room on the dialog. Make the slider three or four times wider! Voting 5 votes Active In Progress Completed Active Submitted by Rod Ward (@rodward) 13/Dec/10 4:01 AM Audio/Video One button click to generate Text-To-Speech In Cp5 it currently takes three clicks to generate TTS from the Slide Notes tab. One click on the Text-to-Speech button, and then in the Speech Management dialog there's at least one click on the Generate Audio button and another to Close the dialog. It should be possible to generate TTS audio for all ticked items from the Slide Notes tab alone. Voting 20 votes Active In Progress Completed Active Submitted by Rod Ward (@rodward) 13/Dec/10 4:09 AM Editing Preference settings for object layer colours on timeline The current colour of the object layers on the Cp5 timeline is far too light against the light grey background. This very poor contrast makes the app difficult for visually-challenged users since it's almost impossible on some monitors to see where the object timeframes begin and end. The worst is the mouse layer which is light yellow on light grey. Bad usability! It would be great to give users the ability to custom... more » Voting 12 votes Active In Progress Completed Active Submitted by Rod Ward (@rodward) 13/Dec/10 4:13 AM Audio/Video Automatic waveform sizing for Slide Audio CC editing In Cp5, editing the timing of CC text can be very tedious due to the need to be continually scrolling sideways on slides with long audio. The slider control is also tedious. What would make things easier is an option that could be ticked to have the waveform automatically resize to the width of the dialog at the time. This way, the developer would not need to be continually adjusting the width of the waveform or scrolling... more » Voting 7 votes Active In Progress Completed Active Submitted by Rod Ward (@rodward) 13/Dec/10 4:15 AM Editing Redesign the Effects interface for better usability The current Captivate 5 Object Effects interface is very clunky and counter-intuitive. It needs to be redesigned for better usability. It should be possible just to drill down on any object to open up a dialog and add/edit effects. Voting 50 votes Active In Progress Completed Active Submitted by Rod Ward (@rodward) 13/Dec/10 4:19 AM Editing Sync object end-point with timeline In Cp4/5 you have the option of syncing a selected object's start point with the current playhead position. What would also be great is to be able to do the same for the end-point of one or more selected objects. This would also require a keystroke shortcut similar to the one used for synciing start point (Ctrl + L). This would make it much quicker to edit timing of objects that must fade out at a specific point in... more » Voting 16 votes Active In Progress Completed Active Submitted by Rod Ward (@rodward) 13/Dec/10 4:22 AM Preferences Preference setting for Cache size limit Currently Cp5 suffers from some issues when the cache reaches a certain size. The cache can very quickly build up into multi-gigabytes It would be good in Cp6 to be able to set the limit of the cache size so that it doesn't grow too large. In general it should be safe to delete the oldest modified cached projects once the size limit is reached. Voting 11 votes Active In Progress Completed Active Submitted by RJ Jacquez 13/Dec/10 9:19 AM Screen Capture Zoom and Pan We need full support for Zoom and Pan in the next major version of Adobe Captivate. zoom pa...