Importing Captivate HTML5 output into Flare causes error

[bobmoon]

Hi all -

We have been importing Captivate Flash (SWF) videos into our Flare projects to use in webhelp for years, and are now migrating to Captivate's HTML5 output.

In the past we imported the Captivate-generated HTM file into Flare, and simply copied the SWF and other supporting files into the Flare content folders. Everything worked fine. Flare "tweaks" the imported Captivate HTM a bit to make it XHTML compliant, which makes the Flare compiler happy. The Captivate SWF video works just fine in our compiled help.

That process doesn't work so well with the Captivate HTML5 output. When I imported the new Captivate-generated index.html file into Flare, the "tweaks" for XHTML cause Javascript errors in the video in the compiled help, and the video just hangs.

My solution for now is to simply copy the Captivate HTML5 folder into the Flare project without importing the HTML. The one drawback I foresee is that in the past the Flare compile slowed down when it encountered HTML files that had not been imported (see this topic from 2011: viewtopic.php?f=13&t=12726).

In my limited testing this didn't seem to be an issue, but we have quite a few videos to import into our largest Flare project. If compile speed becomes a problem, I may need to revisit this issue.

Bob

[NorthEast]

We publish mp4 videos from Captivate, and insert the mp4 in Flare as a HTML5 movie.

They're normal videos without any interaction (so don't require Flash).

We find that mp4s work fine in any modern browser, whereas Flash/SWF is more problematic these days.