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Today, this article will show you how to Convert SWF to HTML5. SWF is a file that is used in a lot of places these days. But SWF files can’t be used on every device. Also, SWF files can only be played on a small number of media players. So, MP4 or other video files that can be used anywhere are needed.
People used to be able to use Swiffy to change SWF to HTML, but now Swiffy can’t do that. If you want to convert SWF files to HTML5 but don’t want to use Swiffy Converter, this guide is for you. This article is mostly about the two ways to change SWF to HTML5. SWF to HTML5 Converter is one of the best tools you can use to change your SWF files to HTML5.
This is a very useful video converter because you can easily turn several of your favorite SWF videos to HTML5 with it. It’s much better than Swiffy converter. You can also convert your favorite SWF files straight to HTML5 online. Which way do you like better? Read this article and decide for yourself if you want to change SWF to HTML5 or not.
Ways to Convert SWF to HTML5
Develop Responsive or Non-Responsive HTML5
Once SWF is taken out of the picture, HTML5 output will be the only publishing file that most Adobe Captivate e-learning developers will be able to think about. But you still have to decide if you want to submit to Normal HTML5 or Responsive HTML5, and then you have to choose between Breakpoint and Fluid Box for the responsive format.
For those who don’t know what it means, responsive content resizes and reformats material on the fly based on the screen size and orientation (Portrait or Landscape) of the user’s mobile device. When managers hear about this strangely useful behavior, they usually think that responsive must be the Holy Grail of e-learning and see it as a “no-brainer” to go that way. Most of the time, they don’t realize that Responsive HTML5 has a number of important drawbacks that need to be understood and taken into account.
Decide if this course should really be replaced instead
We think that BEFORE you do any of the following steps to figure out what needs to be done to convert to HTML5, you should sit down with your client or management and talk about whether the age of the course or the amount of content that is no longer relevant would make it pointless to spend any time or money on it.
If the answer to that question is YES, it would be best to “bite the bullet” now, get rid of the course, and start over with a new one.
Going responsive is a one-way street
If your company thinks that all courses should be responsive, you will probably have to start over with them. Adobe Captivate doesn’t make it easy to republish lessons that were made in SWF as responsive HTML5. Most Captivate writers also don’t know that responsive CPTX project files are very different from regular CPTX files in how they are put together.
In the end, you can have a project file that uploads to responsive HTML5 or to regular HTML5, but you can’t have both from the same CPTX file. You can turn a non-responsive HTML5 CPTX file into a responsive one, but you can’t turn it back into a non-responsive file. Once you go sensitive, you can’t go back.