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Re: Programs to create a software walk-through?

Subject: Re: Programs to create a software walk-through?
From: "Collin T" <tutivillus -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 07:48:19 -0600

That's an interesting setup...not allowing access to a local drive.

If you had a robust connection to a network drive then you probably
wouldn't have an issue with Captivate. Personally, however, I
wouldn't recommend it. Captivate is a pretty hefty program that
generates some sizable files...best to have a local drive at your
disposal.

-Collin Turner

On 5/17/06, Chris L <techwrite -at- zulublue -dot- com> wrote:

We have been thinking about buying Captivate but some of this discussion
concerns me. Our work SOE has locked off access to C: and our My Documents
is actually mapped to a network drive so we would never have the option to
work on a local disk. I gather that this makes Captivate unhappy?

Has anyone used a recent version of Viewlet Builder? I used it a few years
ago and rather liked it.

Chris

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I've used Adobe (formerly Macromedia) Captivate on hundreds of hours worth
of walkthroughs. I've never had a problem with corrupted files or similar.
It's a *very* easy program to learn, but does have some quirks that need to
be kludged around.

Overall? I recommend Captivate over Camtasia...just a better feature set
all around.

*HINT!!! If you're adding voiceovers? Get the sound files *first* then do
your screencast while the sound file is playing.

I've created a great list of do's and don'ts...I should post it somewhere.

Screen Capture = Captivate.

-Collin Turner

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