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My company would like to create a video to put on their
website, can they shoot the movie and then save it digitally (any
particular format?) and then just upload it to captivate? Are there
any ''gotcha's'' I should know about?



Thanks in advance for your time and responses!Making Movies
Hi, zjillian.

There are three steps here.

1. Converting the video to a format that works on the web.
That would be either SWF or FLV. SWF would work fine for a
relatively short video of a couple of minutes. If you have a very
long video, then you would want to use the FLV (the newer Flash
Video format - though this is slightly more complicated).



The process of conversion is called ''encoding''. If you do not
have Adobe Flash or Adobe Premiere, you can use a shareware product
called SoThink Video Encoder to Flash
http://www.sothink.com/



2. Once you convert (encode) the video, you can either bring
a SWF file directly into RoboHelp using the Insert Multimedia
command, or you can create a nice wrapper for it by first inserting
the video into an Adobe Captivate demo.



3. Then, import this Captivate movie into a RoboHelp project
topic. You can read about that here:


http://www.adobe.com/devnet/captivate/articles/cp_rh_integration.html



If you want to see an example of videos being used in a
project, you can take a look at the sample project that comes with
RoboHelp 7 (if you have that version). It's called Clownfish School
and has examples of underwater videos that were embedded into
Captivate movies and imported into RoboHelp. Or, if you don't have
RoboHelp 7 and just want to see an example, here is a link to
Clownfish
School RoboHelp Project



Thanx,

JohnMaking Movies
Thanks AGAIN John, your help is sooo appreciated!

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