As you already know, Macromedia Captivate is a powerful tool for creating robust software simulations quickly and effectively. Macromedia Captivate is targeted at anyone who needs to create professional software demonstrations for marketing/sales, training for e-learning, or customer service support materials. Did you know that you can also leverage what you create in Macromedia Captivate by exporting it to Macromedia Flash MX 2004?

The development team for Macromedia Captivate has covered all the bases by also keeping in mind “power users.” These users, like you, not only use Macromedia Captivate, but also integrate their demos and simulations with Flash MX 2004, learning management systems, websites and more.

In this brief article, I’ll show you how to:

• Export a Macromedia Captivate movie into Flash MX 2004
• Read the Flash Timeline for an imported Macromedia Captivate movie
• Understand what goes into the Flash library when you import from Macromedia Captivate

Note:Macromedia Captivate only exports to Macromedia Flash MX 2004. It does not export to older versions of Flash.

Requirements

To complete this tutorial you will need to install the following software and files:

Adobe Captivate

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Flash MX Professional 2004

• Try
• Buy

Tutorials and sample files:

• captivatetoflash.zip (ZIP, 18.2MB)

  This ZIP file contains the files you will need to complete this tutorial: one Macromedia Captivate file and two SWF files.

Prerequisite knowledge:

• You should be familiar with Macromedia Captivate and have a working knowledge of Macromedia Flash MX 2004
• Basic ActionScript 2.0 (not required, but beneficial)

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