Firefly vs. Captivate

I use Captivate and am somewhat familiar with Firefly, but don't use it.There's a significant difference between those two applications, both in term of their level of sophistication and, as, correspondingly, their price (Captivate is in the hundreds of dollars and Firefly in the thousands of dollars).Captivate is primarily used to create basic systems simulations that allow the user to view a demo and/or simulate doing a prescribed set of interactions.Firefly allows you to create something closer to a system emulation. When you do your screen capturing, it not only captures what appears on the screen and your mouse movements/keystrokes, as Captivate does, it also captures the underlying objects. So, for example, it captures what all of the options are for each of the menu items on the page so that the learner can actually actually explore through them, much as they would on the real system, to find what they're looking for. Captivate, on the other hand, would only be able to show menu options for menus you actually accessed as you were doing the screen capture. (I don't know if I've explained this clearly...you might want to attend demos for these two products to see what I'm talking about).So, if you're looking to do some pretty simple, straightforward system simulation stuff, then you're probably better off just getting Captivate. But if you want to do sophisticated software emulations to do more complex systems training, then it might be worth the investment to go with Firefly.LauraP.S. Of course there are other differences between the two products...I just highlighted what I considered to be the most key differences here.