Amongst the big three (Camtasia, Captivate, and Viewlet Builder) I've noticed the following differences:

Captivate seems to offer the best options in terms of accessibility issues. Slide notes that are rendered by adaptive software, and closed captioning of audio are features I am not sure you'll find in the other products.

Viewlet Builder is the best option if you plan to do add any additional javascript actions or functions. For example, if you want to track your tutorials using Google Analytics, you'll need to add some javascript code to your project. Viewlet builder is the most felexible when it comes to this, you can have events (button click, slide load, etc.) execute multiple actions. So a button can be used to run a javascript function and still direct the user to the next slide, or slide 5, and so on.

Camtasia seems to offer the best options in terms of publishing your project. Having the option of producing a .swf file or an .avi file is very handy if you are looking to host your tutorials on Youtube. However, as mentioned earlier in the thread, since Camtasia records your project as an .avi file, your project files are larger in size.

Paul B.

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