Articulate Storyline / Rise vs New Captivate

Hey Ozzie - Sorry you have had limited responses.  I think we all needed to spend a little time trying to understand what Adobe is doing with captivate.... And its not looking good.

I am a user of the Captivate Classic and have been testing Articulate suite quite a bit as our team may switch programs with the new Captivate 2023 that was just released.  So from my perspective there is NO COMPARISON between the two programs.  Articulate (SL and rise) exceeds captivate in every way - especially the New captivate.  

So some back story - Captivate (classic) which is their program that is similar to Storyline is being retired in 2027 and they will stop servicing it.  The files from Captivate Classic are .CPTX files and cannot be used with the new captivate. The new captivate, from what we have seen, functions as a basic version of Rise.  You lose all ability to design with the new captivate but rather have to use cookie cutter layouts and fonts and can't personalize it much.  You can't even pick where you want an image to display on a slide. For this reason alone, as a designer - most of my projects are not cookie cutter projects and require personalization and creative freedom, so if captivate classic is going away - the only option for me is Storyline.

Now with the comparison between Storyline and captivate Classic - they basically do the same things, but Captivate makes doing those things SO MUCH HARDER.  Where Articulate functions basically like PowerPoint with built in intuitive interactions that are very simple to create, captivate has the same functions hidden within menu after menu and it just is not very intuitive. In addition, you can import your storyboards, from PPT, directly into Storyline and then EDIT them.  In captivate they basically turn your entire ppt slide into a image and you cannot edit it within Captivate so you have to manually transfer the entire ppt into Captivate element by element.  There is also the "skin" feature in Storyline that is amazing.  You can create search functions to find content in your course, a glossary, notes tabs and you can include company branding.

I get this is a little one sided with how I feel about the programs. I learned how to create training using Captivate, it was the only option my company offered, and I have used it for 6 years. So, testing and using Storyline was like a breath of fresh air as thing were just so much more simple and the output is so much more professional.

Also - to get Captivate to play well with our LMS, SABA which is a Cornerstone subsidiary, we have to use scorm 2004, advanced settings with several manual Java scripts to force completion and bookmark properly and learners need to close the CBT using a specific button or it won't grant credit.  With Storyline, I published in Scorm 1.2 with default setting and get completion no matter how I close it out.  it just is no comparison.

Anyway - hope this helped a little.