Adobe Captivate CS5.5

What is Adobe Captivate 5.5?

Adobe® Captivate® 5.5 software is the industry-leading elearning authoring software for rapidly creating and maintaining interactive eLearning content. Import your existing Microsoft PowerPoint content and make it more engaging with rich media, application simulations, branching scenarios, and quizzes. Easily publish to leading SCORM- and AICC-compliant Learning Management Systems and track key performance metrics.

Rapid eLearning content development

Roundtrip PowerPoint workflow

Leverage existing PowerPoint slides in your projects. Import slides with audio and interactivity, easily update the content, and keep your PowerPoint and Adobe Captivate files in sync with the dynamically linked import option.

Optimized user interface

Get going faster, do the job in fewer steps, and improve the overall authoring experience with the Property inspector, a multiple document interface, and personalized workspaces.

Master Slides

Use Master Slides to easily create and maintain well-formatted and consistent-looking content that meets corporate guidelines.

Object Styles

Define styles and apply them to selected objects for quick and consistent formatting across a project.

Table of Contents and Aggregator

Enable learners to easily navigate through content and track their progress with a multilevel Table of Contents. Use the Aggregator to combine multiple content modules into a single eLearning course.

XML file export and import for easy localization

Simplify project localization by exporting captions to a text or XML Localization Interchange File Format (XLIFF) file. Import the translated text file into a copy of the original project file.

Streamlined workflows and enhanced usability

Enjoy workflow and usability enhancements, including inline editing of text captions, support for panning to optimize the viewing experience on small screens and devices, and support for right-clicking in simulations.

Professional project templates

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

More effective collaboration

Real-time reviewing of SWF files

Accelerate content creation cycles by letting reviewers add comments to your SWF files while playing them without having Adobe® Captivate® installed.

Direct access to Adobe resources

Reach out to Adobe support, access social media forums, and receive timely updates from the Adobe Captivate product team, all from within Adobe Captivate.

In-context learner collaboration via Twitter

Leverage the Twitter widget from Adobe to create courses that let learners collaborate with one another as well as the author by simply logging in to their Twitter accounts. They can ask questions, get answers, and access preexisting discussions

Easy creation of interactive eLearning experiences

Automatic screen capture with smart full-motion recording

Automatically record all your actions, including mouse movements and keyboard activity, while using any software application. Full-motion recording automatically switches on and off for drag-and-drop actions.

Multimode recording for screen capture

Generate robust software simulations with multiple learning modes in a single recording session, including a demonstration of the procedure, a simulation for practicing the steps, and an assessment.

Support for right-clicking in simulations

Maintain realism in your software training content by simulating right-clicking as well as left-clicking and double-clicking.

AutoText Captions

Create text captions that describe concepts and screen actions, or have Adobe Captivate software automatically add them during recording. Customize the appearance, size, orientation, position, and display speed of captions.

Interactive elements

Create realistic branching scenarios without programming. Easily add buttons, click boxes, text boxes, and more interactive elements to solicit responses from learners. Specify the type of event you want to associate with a particular response.

Scenario branching

Visually map out different learner paths. Collapse and expand sections of a simulation, and create complex scenarios by automatically branching at the end of slides based on a learner's choice at the beginning of the simulation.

Adobe Connect and Adobe Presenter integration

Increase training effectiveness by adding interactive simulations to Adobe Presenter or Adobe Connect TM software. Every participant can practice simulations during live events or recorded presentations.

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 learning experience by enabling conditional actions, or more than one action in an interaction.

Rich multimedia to attract learners

Import video in popular formats (AVI, MOV, FLV, MPEG) and synchronize video with selected slides. Turn text into high-quality speech with a single click. Create customized animations without programming by combining effects like linear motion, rotation, and glow attractive set of components.
Gradients, shadows, and rotations

Make your slides and objects more attractive with color gradients. Select a preset shadow, or define one, to add depth to objects. Use the rotate handle to easily turn and flip objects.


Multivideo support and synchronization

Import video in a wide variety of formats (AVI, MOV, FLV, MPEG) and synchronize it with the project, slide, or set of slides.
Audio recording and editing

Simultaneously record narration and capture screen motion, and synchronize audio with slides and timed objects. Edit audio to correct mistakes and pauses, add an external track, or attach sound effects or narration to individual objects.


Rich animation effects

Create rich object animations within Adobe Captivate 5.5 by combining predefined effects like straight-line motion, rotation, and glow. For added impact, seamlessly import custom animation effects from Adobe Flash® Professional software.
Text-to-speech functionality
Keep learners tuned in to your content thanks to automatic voice-over functionality that turns text into high-quality speech in a few clicks. Need to change the text? Just click once to update the audio.
Expanded asset library

Get a larger set of prebuilt widgets, playbars, skins, stock animations, images, text captions, and buttons with superior aesthetics and usability.
Adobe Photoshop layer support

Preserve layers in imported Adobe Photoshop® (PSD) files so you can edit or animate individual layers in Adobe Captivate for just the right effect. (Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended software is available separately and as part of Adobe eLearning Suite 2 and later software.)
Adobe Audition CS5.5 integration

Send Adobe Captivate audio files to Adobe Audition® CS5.5 software for additional editing and enhancement, and then bring them back into Adobe Captivate.

System requirements
Windows
1GHz or faster processor Intel® Pentium® 4, Intel Centrino®, Intel Xeon®, or Intel Core™ Duo (or compatible) processor
Microsoft® Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (Service Pack 3 recommended); Windows Vista® Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise with Service Pack 1; or Windows 7 (certified for 32-bit editions)
1 GB minimum RAM (2GB recommended)
3GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on flash-based storage devices)
DVD-ROM drive
1,024x576 display (1,280x1024 recommended) with 16-bit video card
Broadband Internet connection required for online services.