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Adobe Captivate 2025: Interactive Videos

In this Adobe Captivate 2025 (version 12.6) tutorial, you’ll learn how to create an interactive video that displays knowledge check questions as overlays—going far beyond a traditional play-and-pause video.

You’ll see how to add and configure knowledge checks, insert bookmarks at key points in the video, and trigger actions that display those questions as overlays when a bookmark is reached. You'll also learn how to use an action to resume the video timeline after the learner interacts.

This technique helps keep learners engaged while reinforcing key concepts without disrupting the flow of the video.

If you need help with Adobe Captivate, I offer public vILT classes and one-on-one mentoring.

Also, check out my Adobe Captivate 2025 course on Udemy.

Adobe Captivate Classic: Add AI Audio (Text-to-Speech) to a Shape

Adding audio to a Captivate Classic slide is easy: choose "Audio, Record to" or "Import to." Adding text-to-speech to a slide object is a bit more complicated.

1. Choose Audio > Speech Management.
2. Click the plus sign to create a note area.
3. Type a script.
4. Pick your voiceover "talent."
5. Click Generate Audio and then click Close. (This will add the audio to the slide, which you will delete during that last step below.)
6. On the slide, select a shape.
7. On the Library, drag the new audio onto the shape.
8. Choose Audio > Speech Management and remove the audio from the slide background.

Here's a video that will walk you through the process.

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TechSmith Camtasia 2025: Two Updates Add Features and Fix Bugs

TechSmith has released two updates to Camtasia in the past week. All updates are available on the Home screen, appearing automatically after the program starts.

2025.1.1, released May 1, 2025, fixes a startup crash that could occur when using a graphics processor that does not support Direct3D Feature Level 12_0.

2025.1.0, released April 29, 2025, adds new features and enhances others.

New Features

• Added Onboarding Tooltips that will appear on hover for specific controls to help guide your Camtasia experience. This setting must be toggled on.
• Added new Cursor Effects: Cursor Isolation, Gradient, Lens, and Negative.
• Added new Click Effects: Burst 1, Burst 2, Burst 3, Burst 4, and Zoom.
• New visual effects were added: CRT Monitor, Static Noise, and Torn Edge.

Feature Updates

• Added Angle property to Slide Right and Gradient Wipe transitions.
• Updated the placeholder look and text.
• The Camtasia free trial no longer has a time constraint: users can explore editing and features at their own pace, with watermarked exports.
• Smart Focus can now create animations for recordings with dimensions smaller than the canvas dimensions.
• Modifications were also made to Smart Focus's ability to add zoom and pan animations.