Those products are best of breed. Captivate is a work in progress. I hope it improves. I think you may make a little mistake. I also like the "Scenario Simulation" setting of Captivate, pretty professional. And the interface and template player of Camtasia seems more stunning. But at last I chosed DemoCreator on google search, just because of I did not have the budget enough. I would love to see a table comparing all of the above mentioned products and their features as well as the one's listed in other parts of this thread.
Late post and somewhat off topic I use both Captivate and Camtasia. I view them as different tools in my toolbox. These days I use Camtasia mostly for capturing webinars and videoconferences. For information sessions, software demos, and training sessions I use Captivate. So being able to review notes between recording each Captivate slide is much more comfortable for me. I also find Captivate much easier to update after publishing. Often an SME will ask me to add things and sometimes reword something before release.
Also we have some longer series that may add up to an hour or two of training. Replacing a slide or adding a new slide can be accomplished easily and seamlessly. Even a simple arrow must be imported. Sometimes they were fine and sometimes they had a white rectangle around them when they were in front of another object. I do still use PowerPoint as a scratch pad and drawing tool.
Then I save it as a gif file and insert the image into Captivate. Like Arrow Left red. Rather than provide you with built-in tools for things like this, they say, "Captivate isn't a vector graphics package. You should buy the appropriate package for your vector drawing needs and import it.
You can also create and build libraries of assets so you spend less time creating the same graphics and importing them over and over again. The problem is, it's all so expensive! Thanks; this opens up some opportunities to be creative. It was easy to set up and figure out how to use it.
Captivate Branching I did a Captivate project a several months ago for a product launch where I used Branching at a very basic level. This project was posted on a public web site for a few months, and has since been replaced, so I suppose I can share it.
Note: The pictures will only be available for a week or so because I need to get the site ready for a demo to the marketing folks. Here is a link to a Camtasia project someone else did that appears to use branching:.
I've used most of the products that have been listed in this thread in addition to a few others and I just wanted to say all of them have weaknesses. I realize everyone is under budget constraints particularly if you are delivery low cost or fee courses, but to try to find one product or even two to do everything in elearning IMHO is not going to happen and things will change anyway in two to three months when a new version of some program comes out that has new features.
I think the saying goes "Jack of all trades, master of none" which I think certainly applies in terms of elearning software programs. To me, it depends on what kind of training you are doing and how important screen capturing is to that process vs. I use whatever tool allows me to do what I need to do in order to accomplish what I need. Here's a brief rundown from my perspective. These could have changed, because I don't have the latest versions of everything I think I tried Captivate at one time, but don't remember enough about it to comment.
Camtasia- Using the built in recording, the audio quality was always sub-par compared to other tools and the player look options seemed very limiting. SnagIt- It's only designed to do a few things, but it does them very well. If you haven't upgraded to version 9, I highly recommend it. Articulate Presenter - It's probably one of the easiest to use PowerPoint conversion tool on the market, but it's expensive.
You really need to purchase the Engage program with it to create interactive exercises. As already mentioned, the built in quiz is very good. Hot Potatoes- Easiest to use quiz creation program, but using Moodle you don't really need the quiz part of the program at all. Very good way to create flashcards, matching, and crossword puzzles and integrate them into Moodle. The Hot Potatoes module in Moodle does not render pages correctly if you are using 1. It's not a bad deal, but once again it only does a couple of things, but it does them well.
I guess I would use the analogy that a carpenter doesn't show up with just a hammer to do every job. There will be different needs at different times depending on what you are trying to accomplish.
If there's an open source product, that's great. If there's not, then you have to decide how important it is to your classes to buy another program that can accomplish something else you want done or if it can do something quicker or better than your existing software.
As an example, I still have Pointecast Publisher which is somewhat equivalent to Articulate Presenter, but there were a couple of features that I developed a need for that it didn't have so I switched to Articulate. I don't like unnecessarily spending money, but I used Pointcast for two years. Thanks for your information. But the ultra version is a little expensive just with the SCORM function added, and it does not support quiz.
Hi everyone,. I realize this is an ancient thread, but I thought you all might be interested to know about some big changes that have happened at iSpring since these comments were posted. Check the comparison table on that link. Hope that helps! Yes, looks OK, but Likely the wrong term to describe it, but I couldn't think of anything else.. And lots of people are far more familiar with PowerPoint, and would look to build in their existing skill base, rather than learn a whole new package.
I have not tried it but am wondering if Office Mix is an easy content authoring solution for teachers who have powerpoint ability to start with. It is how the likes of Articulate and the rather average e-learning tools out there have been able to mug off customers with the promise of rich engaging e-learning.
However, for those who actually understand this process - you cannot just take bog standard PPT that have been used as ILT to be used as fully functional standalone e-learning with sufficient knowledge transfer. It is this sort of product that gets our industry a bad rap. I doubt there is any advantage actually. The idea of SCORM, for me, is to create an interactive quiz, or tool, or even something to click on while waiting for it to tell you you have it wrong.
You can achieve a similar, but static, thing with a Quiz. Some tools allow you to develop video based activities , or similar. I have just completed two certification courses, one by my employer and the other by Red Cross, largely interactive, in terms of step by step responses and immediate grading, ongoing and adaptive commentary, screen object manipulation, and a lot of other stuff way out of my skill range.
No idea how they are made, but I would think it likely Captivate was used. PowerPoint is largely static, and actually boring as most users never seem to use it adequately, but largely passive. I only use it now to display step by step explanations of quadratics, trig, trig identities, and similar, rather than use a white board and marker.
Not imaginative, I know, but less messy.. I agree with Andrea. Camtasia is good at screen recording, and Captivate is good at building the training course with quizzes and test.
Camtasia is developed by Techsmith. Let's have a look at their products, Snagit, Camtasia and Jing Project. All of them are used to record the computer screen and share with others.
Captivate is developed by Adobe. All of them are designed for building and managing the training. I've spent some time using both Camtasia and Captivate and I feel that Camtasia is a bit easier to use.
It is true that Captivate may be better for building training courses, but for screen captures and video tutorials, I prefer Camtasia. I've used Snagit on Windows 7 for years and now also on Mac Lion but I don't find it lacking on anything on Mac - just does things differently which I do find annoying because I'm forever switching between the two OS.
I've only just started using Camtasia for Mac but I've never used it on Windows too expensive for me so I can't compare. What's it lacking? I just wrote a long paragraph about my experiences with these and my love of Snagit -then when I pressed to post I lost the internet and lost the post -so I can't be bothered repeating it - but basically: I too would like to know in what way is Snagit lacking? I know what used to be lacking on the Mac version of Snagit: it couldn't do video captures.
But it does now - 2 months after I bought Camtasia for Mac. Never occured to me to use either for making interactive exercises though. Hot Potatoes does nearly all I need with lots of the customisation that are so easy even for non techies like me and can be made to look reasonably "smart" though not to rival with Flash tools.
Haven't lost a post that way in years. In fact, it recovered this one for me because Firefox crashed as I was writing to you. TechSmith's software offers a large number of animations that enable you to tilt the video screen left or right or use the Smart Focus feature. Voice Narration option is designed to allow authors to record their voice after completing their video recording session and like the Adobe Captivate, Camtasia 9 offers Text-to-Speech feature that makes creating captions easy.
There is no doubt that both of these programs deliver power eLearning tools that are perfectly suited for creation of online educational content. Adobe Captivate offers a plethora of powerful and amazing features, but it doesn't allow you to edit the videos you create with capture screen option. The video clips created with Adobe Captivate require an editing software like Adobe Premier in order to remove all the errors that might take place during a recording session. Camtasia 9 is above all a screen recording and video editing tool, so if you need a program that can do both this is the right choice for you.
However, if you need a professional software for creating online courses and tutorials, Adobe Captivate is the best choice you can make. Just bear in mind that Captivate is not easy to use and it is by no means aimed at entry level users. Filmora scrn may not offer as many options as Camtasia or Adobe Captivate, but it is certainly a great alternative for all users that don't want to use the bulky and pricey software. Wondershare's Filmora Scrn is a powerful screen capturing tool that lets you adjust all the video and audio settings manually, while you can also edit the videos you created in the software's video editor.
Filmora Scrn is a more affordable option than Camtasia 9 or Adobe Captivate that enables you to create high-quality screen recordings. Generally rated 4. Which one is better Camtasia or Adobe Captivate? I like how camtasia has an easy-to-learn interface, it's very uncomplicated to do a good video editing. Camtasia is an excellent tool for creating explanatory movies.
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