Ok Rod, I did it. I set the network folder as a trusted location and the results are the same, using links to the folder does not work, even after rebooting the PC, as and extra measure. However that Adobe link you provided was VERY useful. It recommends not using a LAN and warns of using Links. Odd that my addressing those issues and making the published folder a trusted one did not fix though.
Then I copied that same entire folder to my local PC hard drive and it works perfectly. I have not set my local hard drive as a trusted location so it must be by default I suppose, but in any case it works there but not on the network drive. I emailed myself a link to C:\temp, which is where the publish folder was copied and used that to navigate from the email to the copied folder.
- VIDEO: I'm not sure what "Event video" is or what "multi-slide synchronized video" is. I can only tell you that I'm using Captivate's Video Demo recording mode ("Demonstration" is the Mode selected in the Modes dialog), 16 bit, with Show Mouse in Video Demo Mode checked. All objects are the defaults. The working folder is on my local hard drive. My setup is very straight forward. I record mp3 audio on a blank slide and then save it to the network so I can play it back using Windows Player in order to guide me when I create the video portion. If I like the video I then import that same mp3 back to the video slide and it is done. Most of my slides just have that mp3 imported and an externalized mp4.
- LINKS: The link is a hyperlink in a MS Outlook email in the format of DriveLetter:\folder\folderabove published folder. So something like X:\Training\VideoTraining is the link address and in that VideoTraining folder resides the published folder as published by Captivate 6. Within that published folder are the .swf, .htm, _fs.htm, .mp4 (dozens), captivate.css and standard.js.
Most of the rest of the details can be found in my posts above. IMHO the option to internalize mp4 should have been included in version 6. I think that would resolve this issue. It's a big .swf in the end but much more manageable and easy to work with. Thanks for your time in any case, Rod.
