A collegue thought that a full-motion recorded project would perhaps need to be less than 15 minutes? Is there a time limit to how long a project can last using full-motion?
Thank you

Welcome to our community, donkeyyears (Interesting forum handle :wink

Some (maybe even Adobe support) will tell you there isn't. But realistically
there is. Exactly what the limit is will vary. It's normally best to avoid
using Full Motion. If you must, I might recommend keeping the projects as short
as possible.

In actual use, we see that sometimes folks hit what I call "The red screen of
death". Basically what happens is that each full motion clip loads into memory
to play but isn't released from memory when it completes. During playback, the
screen begins showing red squares and finally ends up with the whole screen
turning red. This happens because all memory (physical AND virtual) has been
exhausted on the PC.

Cheers... Rick :smile;

Your colleague is probably close to the correct answer, donkeyyears, in terms
of a maximum time, but there are many factors to be considered. So to rephrase
your question (if you will pardon me for doing so), "How large can a
full-motion recording - or a published Captivate file in general - be, before
the file-size becomes too great to be smoothly viewed on the end-user's (not
the developer's) machine?".

The answer may be 12-15 minutes, or not, because file-size issues are
dependent on factors we don't have available right here, like movie size in
pixels, and whether 16 bit or 32bit video is being recorded.

Do not worry about any "screen of death", red or otherwise, on your
development machine (with due respect to the opinions of other posters). For
example, if you are working on the latest and greatest computer in terms of CPU
speed, Video capabilities, RAM, and internal pipeline speeds, but are
building tutorials for viewers who have fewer machine resources and slower
network connections, the only thing that really matters is at what point
are your FMRs too large to be played on their computers. Hope this clarifies
the issue for you, and others.
:beer;