Huge Captivate files sizes

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• Adobe Captivate file size

  I have a two part question. I work with Adobe Captivate for the first time, so I am of course a lot of rookie, errors, and now I'm stuck.

  I have a project that is 122 229 KB, and when publishing to LMS, is 63 900 KB. I made sure all the graphics are as small as possible, but it still takes a long time to load when you access through the LMS. My first question is, what is the size of ideal file for the publication of LMS? If necessary, I may have to divide my presentation in several modules so that they are more easily, but I'm curious to know if there is an easier way to address the issue before it split.

  My second part of the question: is there a way to tell Captivate to begin play the webinar when it loads? When I tested, it took about 2 minutes to load the file that in the world of technology online, it's an eternity. I hope there's a way to tell him to start playing the video during the rest of the presentation the loading in the background.

  Thank you in advance for your help!

  Kristen

  Hello Kristen,

  Welcome to the forums. For your last question: you can reduce the Preloader % in Preferences, project, start & end. Its default value is 100%, which means that the entire project is loaded before playing. Also: avoid having a heavy slide first, no audio action, not complicated, etc..

  There is no ideal real file size, because it depends on many factors. Keep the resolution as low as possible, I mean the size in pixels. You talk about graphics: what type of graphics do you use. If you're on the CP9, he agrees to SVG which, in most cases, have smaller file than bitmap images. But it's not only the graphics that define the size of the file: as the number of slides, images, audio and video clips.

• Converting PPT to the Captivate file size - why is is on the rise?

  I have Captivate 7-64 bit. I'm trying to convert several .pptx presentations. Each presentation is about 60 MB. Curiously, however, when I convert, they increase in size to 320 MB or something close. A few months back we did this same thing with a presentation of 70 MB, and it rose only 20 MB. Any ideas on why this would be or how to keep it small? I still have audio input and this will make that huge file!

  Thanks in advance,

  Arthur

  The difference between the .cptx and the final output file was negligible - something like 20 to 40 MB. Whatever it is, to work around the problem, now, we simply recorded each slide in the .ppt as a jpg, reduced resolution and quality, then downloaded to them. That, at least, is now small enough so that we can manage it. Still not sure why we can't just import the .ppt himself well that without it increases tenfold and without certain images does not. This conversion of .ppt feature seems useless to me. In doing my research, it seems everyone rally articulate it is the best option for the conversion of .ppt. May be the case.

• The file size is huge despite the linked files

  Hi, I met a very strange thing.

  I am just placing some raster files in my illustration. I have always used the link option, because I keep my files in good condition and I really like the small files. (The contrary would be the Embed option, which saves the content placed in the file have.)

  But, despite a link to raster instead of embed files, my file have size gets really huge with the placed content. As a general rule, 80 MB with three raster images placed. It includes of course placed in any case files. And they are recorded in a sort of uncompressed format, too; the actual jpg file weigh only about 3 MB in total.

  Even more strange is the fact that if I move the content placed outside my work plan, the size of the file down again normal values (usually 600 kB). Means that the file size is something to do with the preview of the file or something, which (I think) is limited to the artboard.

  This has never been the case with Illsutrator before, has it?

  Is this really how Illustrator should behave, or I have some very odd here?

  InDesign handles content exactly how I like it: no incorporation of all.

  It is the ability to save a PDF compatible file that incorporates the images.

• [After Effects] Huge file size.

  So I did the short video clip by using simple audio bars and a background. It is 03:58 minutes long in HD 1080 p at 30 FPS and has a gigantic 41.4 Gb file size. Its so big I can't yet play on my PC without it freezing half a second.

  I'm not an expert but I know it's a file size large stupididly for the duration of the video.

  So yes, no matter what way I can lower the size of the file to something under or arround 20 GB?

  FAQ: Why my huge output file, and why didn't he play back smoothly in a media player?

• Captivate 3 - everyone figured out how to reduce to a CP project file size?

  Greetings,

  I think that this question has been asked before, but I was unable to find a solution to the problem and I was wondering if someone else (a solution).

  Some people called this phenomena "file bloat".

  I'm using Captivate 3. In the process of adding and deleting slides the .cp file gets quite large. I tried to do the thing of "save under...". ». I also tried the unused resources removal (graphics, backgrounds, etc) and save the file again. Nothing seems to work.

  I tried to import a project into an empty project (the application seems to work, but nothing happens). I tried export in XML format and the file will not import (corrupted).

  If someone managed to find an answer on how to remove unused slides/resources of a Captivate project "inflated". Apart from rebuild the project file from scratch is there a solution?

  Thank you

  TPK

  Hello

  The only way I've ever seen a reduction in file size Captivate 3 was by performing the following steps:

  1. Open a second instance of Captivate.
  2. Create a new empty project of same size as the other instance.
  3. Switching between instances, copy slides of the bloated and paste into the fresh.
  4. Save a new and the file size is reduced.
  5. Throw away the old one.

  Note that you will probably need to restore links that you had.

  Just a note special here on one of the things that you have tried. You said that you exported in XML format. I don't think that you can export as XML and then import XML into a new project. I think that the XML export works very similarly to the export of Microsoft Word. Only the exported project he will be able to properly re - import. If I understand correctly, the XML export is designed to Captivate developers who need to locate (translate) their projects.

  See you soon... Rick

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• File size a massive increase in Captivate 2

  I just finished reviewing a manifestation of the old.
  
  1. the old film, worm 1.01.1418 (42 slides), is 36, 900ko.
  2. the new film, ver 2.0.0 (57 slides), is 338, 638 KB.
  
  Both have audio, notes, text captions, and highlights.
  
  The only big change is that we use the new captioning function.
  
  Someone else has met and solved this problem?
  
  I don't think that I can break it in enough segments without making end users lose interest and I think I have to Snag Screenprints and recreate in Adobe Presenter.
  

  Captivate support found the answer to my problem and it is in the LIBRARY of the current file.

  With the .cp file opens and the LIBRARY pane visible, look at the toolbar of LIBRARY.

  1. Select the tool SELECT the UNUSED ELEMENTS.
  2. THE ITEMS will be highlighted in blue.
  3. Select the REMOVE tool.
  4. prior to the economy, overview of the project (F4) to ensure nothing necessary has been deleted (just a small step paranoia)
  5. close and exit to check file size reduction.

  Reader Digest Version: prior to publication, to delete unused items.

  Note: If you try this and it solves your problems, send praise to Bruce Chizen, CEO of Adobe.

  We strongly believe in for Training Solutions Adobe products (presenter, Connect, Captivate, Robohelp and soon CS3) and encourage us to use throughout our society. When I expressed my frustration of not being able to contact support in due course on this issue, Mr. Chizen came through.

• The maximum size of the Captivate file

  Is there a limitation of file size of Captivate projects or a maximum number of slides that can be included in a project?

  Hi Jay

  I saw some other report that Support Adobe boasts a 50 meg orientation 'Cap '. I have always recommended 50-65 slides as a very broad and general upper limit. That varies of course, depends on several factors. The number of objects on each slide, the dimensions off-brand project, etc.

  See you soon... Rick

• Increase the huge file size.

  So I've recently updated for first Pro CC 2015.3. I was doing a video which is 40 seconds long. The only thing in the video is the text and music. I exported using the same setting that I used in first Pro CC 2015. With first Pro CC 2015 the size of the file is usually around 200 MB. With first Pro CC 2015.3, the file size was 4.7 GB. I was wondering if there is anyway to make it back to what it was before. Thank you!

  File size is determined by length, bitrate, and only two things.

  If you want a smaller file, you'll need a shorter program, or a lower rate.

• Adobe Illustrator CS5 file sizes are huge!

  Try this:

  1. Open a new document in Illustrator
  2. create a simple box, black outline, white background
  3. Save the file
  4. looking at something like 1 Mb for these 4 units and the substantive definition and contour!
  5. now, back in Illustrator, downsave in Illustrator 3 format
  6. the file size is approximately 6 KB - much better!

  Well, I know that we can disable the ICC profile, coating compatibility PDF etc, but none of this comes even remotely close to the 'proper' < 10 KB file size.

  Come on Adobe, what are you going to put in this CS5 file is pretty darn important? This isn't an illustration of the complex with gradients, transforms 3D masks and thousands of points.

  I understand, everyone has terrabyte drives and internet high speed. Is this a pretext for making really inefficient file formats?

  Remove the graphic styles, symbols, brushes, swatches

• Huge, huge, huge file size

  Hello

  I have a short 5 minutes, but when he made the file size is 799 MB. I know that this is not normal, but can someone tell me what I am doing wrong? I use the backup as a quicktime movie, with audio file (I'm using the Composition > add to make the thing only).

  Thanks in advance,

  Steven Raaijmakers

  This file size is not that abnormal. I give out 10 seconds animations that are over 2 GB in size relatively regularly.

  "Quicktime" is just a container, just as the format AVI is just a container. There are tons of possibilities of compression that it contains. What codec you are using and the codec settings all determine the size of your final video file.

  In General, the best practice is to export a file without loss of EI (which will be large) and use another program to compress.

  My friend Dave LaRonde of CreativeCOW.net explains why:

  Do not use AE to compress files for final delivery. The different compressors are there only to make quick ' dirty n files showing the progress of a project for the producers, clients, children, etc.. AE is unable to do a multipass encoding, a crucial aspect which greatly improves the quality of the image of H.264 / MPEG-type of files in particular.

  Make a quality of the AE file and use another application to perform compression. Popular are Adobe Media Encoder, Sorenson Squeeze, and compressor of Apple, which comes with the final cut Suite. Even compressed in Quicktime Pro is better that compress in AE.

  Making good-looking compressed files is almost as much an art as it is a science. It is NOT simple at all.

  There is even a dedicated compression techniques forum at CreativeCOW.net.

• The file size huge with save for Web, but an excerpt is ok

  Hello

  I Googled, but not found anything about this but I have the same problem on my computer and also on colleagues from computer so it seems that it should not be completely unknown.

  That's what I do

  1 open an eps file, the logo of a single color, the 72 dpi, size 110 x 21

  2 save for web

  3. Select png-24 format. Said overview file size ~1.3 kB

  4 save-> actual size of the file on disk is 4 k (IE 3 times larger than it should be)

  5 preview and click right then in the browser + save the image under gives correct the size of the file (on my colleagues computer, this does not work, it always receives the right size)

  I also tried with gif and various settings, etc. image sizes and the result is the same.

  I use Windows Vista 32-bit and Photoshop CS4.

  Is this a known issue?

  Thank you

  so this is the metadata that are added, if you set the drop-down list of metadata to zero, you should get more small files

• The file size and YouTube

  I'm relatively new to videos. I have incorporated a few YouTube videos on my site, but I started to play with the Prime Minister in the hope to learn to make my own videos. I wonder if someone could help me to answer a few questions about the size of the file.

  A large image can greatly increase the size of the page file, in order to put a video on a page should have a huge impact. Or is the negligible impact because the video doesn't "load" until someone clicks on it?

  When someone plays a video, it probably uses a lot of bandwidth.

  So it occurred to me that the obvious solution to the file size band bandwidth problems and probably is bandwidth. Instead of hosting videos on my sites, I could upload them to YouTube and then embed them on my web pages.

  If I use this strategy, which would help a lot in terms of use of bandwidth and page load time?

  Maybe I should have put my question this way: what are the advantages and disadvantages of video hosting on your site rather than publish them on YouTube? I guess that I retain the copyright for all the videos I put on YouTube.

  Thank you.

  If played from YouTube or your own web server, the file size of the video will not add anything significant to the size of the web page.  They are simply text files, very small in comparison.  Adding a video is a few lines of code pointing to the reading software and the video file itself.

  If you host the file on your own server, then the bandwidth will count towards your monthly totals, while only hosted on YouTube, he obviously won't.  But the web page itself will not change much in size.

  Don't know or the other of these issues matter much, however.  You can get hosting packages unlimited bandwidth for $100 / year, maybe less.

  Copyright is another problem.  YouTube will take down or limit some videos under certain conditions.  (And these days, not all these conditions are fair and appropriate under the U.S. Copyright Act).  Their accommodation on your own site, this isn't a concern.  (However, it does not necessarily legal, either.)

• How crop in LR5 and keep the same file size?

  When I crop an image in LR5, it severely reduces the size of the file so that my clients are not able to print their pictures in larger sizes.  Is it possible that I can prevent this, as when I get to the PS?

  When I crop an image in LR5, it severely reduces the size of the file so that my clients are not able to print their pictures in larger sizes.  Is it possible that I can prevent this, as when I get to the PS?

  In my view, is not the size of the file that makes the non-printable picture, it's the cropping or export settings, which makes the non-printable picture. You do a huge amount of cropping? You resize to export? Please give us the details. Please tell us the size of the picture exported in pixels (width and height). Please tell us what size (what size paper) is printing will be.

  The file size is a relatively empty sense information, and it would be wise to ignore it. It is more likely your actions (cropping or resizing during export) which causes the problem of the photo being non-printable.  I say, don't look at the size of the file, do not try to reach a file size, do not try to determine how to increase the size of the file... instead, make sure you use the right export settings and harvest size.

• Sequences of images - they are heavy in file size? Alternatives to a Ken Burns effect?

  We are building a digital magazine for a client who has about 50 performances. Each show has about 3-5 images which would like to see featured in Ken Burns style, a kind of zoom/pan slow and then it fades to the next image that also pan/zooms. This must be done in the background of any content above. My solution at the beginning was to simply do a sequence of images and have it loop. This allows me to have the content above as a MSO.

  My application is currently to 212 MB with a bunch more pages before that... I wonder how much weighs image are sequences? If I had to do about 15 second sequence of images all the performance (there are 50 of them) it would be a huge file size app? If so, what are my alternatives to be?

  Here is a screenshot just for reference... the image behind this content should be the "slides" - movement

  http://i.gyazo.com/d23c545bc42f339248a0ac8ca4ec9d5f.PNG

  Thanks a lot for any help in advance.

  You should try rendering a video instead, and see if it works best for the size of your file. By rendering a video you could listen to from a server instead of having to cook in the folio.

  Neil