Has anyone had issues with the quality of a Captivate swf once imported into Storyline?
I'm publishing my Captivate swfs with high (24-bit) slide quality. When I view the swfs alone, they quality is great. When I insert the swfs into Storyline and publish the Storyline file and watch the swfs on the various slides thought the course, the swfs now have artifacts in them. I have no idea how that's possible. Is there a quality setting when publishing in Storyline?
There are Quality settings in the publish dialog you can try, but I think the fragments you see come from the Captivate file being resized down/up when it is imported in SL. I have seen fragments (lines, streaks) when a Captivate swf is shown in a size other than its original dimensions.
You cannot compress the swf during publishing in Captivate because Storyline is compressing it too.
These are the settings in Captivate.
As a habit, all of my individual slide quality settings are High, but in the Preferences this is the setting that works. And I did not re-size the projects down in Captivate to match the Storyline size, they are at their original size, which is bigger than when the are in Storyline.
You cannot compress the swf during publishing in Captivate because Storyline is compressing it too.
These are the settings in Captivate.
As a habit, all of my individual slide quality settings are High, but in the Preferences this is the setting that works. And I did not re-size the projects down in Captivate to match the Storyline size, they are at their original size, which is bigger than when the are in Storyline.
By default, these are the Captivate publish setting I use. It didn't occur to me to have you check yours; thanks for reminding me!!
You might also find the discussion and work around presented here useful. It might come in handy for those times you forget to change your publish setting is captivate or have to use someone else's files where you might not have control over those settings.
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There are Quality settings in the publish dialog you can try, but I think the fragments you see come from the Captivate file being resized down/up when it is imported in SL. I have seen fragments (lines, streaks) when a Captivate swf is shown in a size other than its original dimensions.
Thanks for the info Michael.
I've
...and I still have lines and artifacts in the swfs when they are viewed in a published SL file.
Does anyone have any other idea?
I would then try and insert one Cap file via a webobject and see if that makes a difference.
I have found the solution.
You cannot compress the swf during publishing in Captivate because Storyline is compressing it too.
These are the settings in Captivate.
As a habit, all of my individual slide quality settings are High, but in the Preferences this is the setting that works. And I did not re-size the projects down in Captivate to match the Storyline size, they are at their original size, which is bigger than when the are in Storyline.
By default, these are the Captivate publish setting I use. It didn't occur to me to have you check yours; thanks for reminding me!!
Perfect, you both helped the other one!
Thanks for sharing that here!
You might also find the discussion and work around presented here useful. It might come in handy for those times you forget to change your publish setting is captivate or have to use someone else's files where you might not have control over those settings.
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