Adobe Captivate is an elearning authoring and course design tool (or LCMS). It supports mobile HTML5 content. Captivate’s users are commonly midsized businesses to enterprises. Adobe Captivate includes some prebuilt assets as well as customizable workflows.
$33.99
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Camtasia
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Some video solutions on the market are super-easy to use, but deliver lackluster results. Others deliver professional quality video, but the learning curve is extreme. Camtasia aims to enable anyone to quickly start creating pro-quality videos in minutes with no video experience needed. Camtasia can capture everything happening on the screen with just a few clicks, and offers drag-and-drop editing and visual effects features to transform screen recordings into polished software…
$299
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Adobe Captivate
Camtasia
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$399
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$212.99
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$269
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$299.99
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As I mentioned before, I've used Adobe Captivate for a long time. I've used other authoring tools, but always come back to Adobe Captivate to do my heavy lifting. Perhaps, I'm just more comfortable with Adobe Captivate and always am surprised at what I can do with it. Camtasi…
TutorPro's LiveContent leaves a lot to be desired. It is very difficult to use as an assessment tool. It won't record web-based applications correctly and the results are impossible to analyse. StoryBoard was similar to Adobe Captivate, but the LMS integration left us needing …
Captivate is like Camtasia on steroids. I do like the way Camtasia does Closed Captions. It is easier in Camtasia than in Captivate. Both other than that Captivate gives you way more options in designing your videos.
If you're creating software walkthrough videos and accompanying simulations, the Captivate is the way to go when compared to Powtoon, Vyond, Camtasia, or Lightworks. Though you can use these four systems to create software videos, only Camtasia makes this relatively easy (the …
There is no comparison, really. Camtasia is the first product I thought of, but I use those two products concurrently to achieve my ultimate goal. I use Camtasia because the features there are not available in Adobe Captivate. I use Adobe Captivate because the features in …
Captivate is more difficult to figure out. However, once you get passed the learning curve it offers more variety and options than Camtasia. It allows for interactions, simulations, and the likes.
I use Camtasia for video editing, however, we have Premier Pro and are now learning to use it. Camtasia and Snagit we use for smaller projects. For bigger projects, we use them all.
Adobe Captivate is much more powerful than the Articulate products. It can take your training much further. If you can imagine it, you ca create it in Captivate. It also makes it easy to maintain simulations as they are recorded a individual pages making it easy to make a quick …
I think that Articulate360 is more user-friendly and has a cleaner, more updated look. If you can edit a PDF, then you can use Articulate 360. Adobe Captivate may be more challenging for the designer, but it has more features. We chose Adobe Captivate because we want the option …
It is easier and quicker for me to produce a lesson in Storyline vs. Adobe Captivate. That being said, Adobe Captivate has more options to customize content. It would be nice if Adobe Captivate provided more baseline templates to work with to facilitate quicker lesson production.
Compared to a program like PowerPoint, Adobe Captivate is much more robust but also more complicated. However, I find thinking of Adobe Captivate as "PowerPoint on steroids" is a good way of thinking about the program. If you can build a PP slide deck, you can probably build a …
Adobe Captivate is similar to Articulate Storyline. Since I use Photoshop to create graphics, I find it easy to use Captivate and import assets created in Photoshop while this feature is not supported in Storyline.
We were wowed by Adobe Captivate at a conference 5 or 6 years ago. While, in many ways, Articulate is the gold standard for crafting E-Learning it's also much more expensive to do so with add-ons. Captivate is cost efficient if you want to have access to the latest tools and …
Adobe Captivate is a superior solution when it comes to the overall flexibility of the platform, but does require a more advanced skill set to take advantage of the features and functions within. We ultimately selected Articulate Storyline over Adobe Captivate because of the …
I feel that Captivate integrates with the creative cloud better than its competition. Furthermore, it is easier to use and offers more features to instructional and graphic designers.
Adobe Captivate is an okay software program, but it is not something I'd pick over Articulate Storyline or Articulate 360. I only selected Captivate because it was mandatory for my course plus I wanted to explore it to find out how it worked. But after using it, I didn't find …
My goal was to quickly create a professional-looking course and video in no time with Camtasia. 'Time is money,' as the old saying goes. Because of my lack of time and patience, I didn't bother with other applications. Camtasia is everything I need and more. I just wished I can …
As with most software products, you'll always find pros and cons when making comparisons. Camtasia is always my go-to application when someone asks me to whip up a video on a very tight deadline. You can very quickly turn an idea into a finished video and be happy with the …
Captivate is high-end to the extent that it is beyond the use of a "typical" user. It has a steep and lengthly learning curve. Camtasia's learning curve can be mastered potentially within an hour to be productive, and it weds with Snagit to become versatile in presenting …
Adobe Premiere has many more options and capabilities, but it is harder to learn than Camtasia. I recommend using it after some experience with a more basic software such as Camtasia. One feature example Premiere has that Camtasia does not is the ability to remove things from …
They are similar products. For someone devoted to video-editing, Captivate might be a better choice - it has a bit more functionality but is harder to learn and use.
The last time I used Captivate, it couldn't handle a multi-screen setup, which was a deal-breaker for us, and …
Captivate and Storyline does not compare when it comes to screen captures. They may have similar capabilities, but they do not always work well. Camtasia works flawlessly when it comes to screen captures. Adobe Premiere Pro is a different story. For simple edits, Camtasia is …
Camtasia is much more user-friendly than any other movie editing software I have used. It's very straight forward, and you don't need a designing degree to understand it.
Although it may not have all the bells and whistles Adobe Premiere Pro has or the flexibility of Storyline 360, for the amount of money it cost, you can still do some pretty amazing things with this software. If you are at all interested to see what I have done with it, I will …
I use both for different objectives. If I need a user interactive video or demo simulator I will use captivate. But camtasia is better for story telling and prototyping.