Adobe 65029940 - Captivate

Using Captivate

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Acknowledgments

Writing: Suzanne Smith

Editing and Production Management: Patrice O’Neill

Editing: Anne Szabla, Lisa Stanziano, Mary Ferguson

Production: Adam Barnett

Special thanks to Arlyn Asch, Magnus Nirell, Terri Griffith, Paul Stoecklein, Erick Vera, Rosana Francescato, Adam Barnett, Silke

Fleischer, Tracy Seibel, and the entire Captivate engineering and QA team.

Second Edition: April 2005

Macromedia, Inc.

601Townsend St.

San Francisco, CA 94103

CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1: Introduction and Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Key features of Captivate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

What’s new in Macromedia Captivate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Using Captivate Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Guide to Captivate instructional media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Captivate and accessibility issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Using Captivate with other applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Upgrading RoboDemo and Captivate projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Authoring requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

End-user requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Installing Macromedia Captivate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Registering Captivate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Transferring your Captivate software license . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

CHAPTER 2: Exploring the Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Customizing the work environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Displaying and docking toolbars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Using the Filmstrip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Displaying confirmation messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Using shortcut keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Undoing and redoing actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Changing capture keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

CHAPTER 3: Creating Movies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Opening existing movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Importing AVI software tutorials. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Before recording a new movie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Recording a new movie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Recording options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Using project templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Using full motion recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Creating accessible movies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Localizing Captive projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

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CHAPTER 4: Adding Text Captions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Adding text captions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Adding plain text to a slide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Adding text captions automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Adding rollover captions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Changing the rollover area. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Converting tooltips to rollover captions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Localizing text captions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Editing text captions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Creating custom text caption styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Moving and resizing text captions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Copying and pasting text captions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Importing text captions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Exporting text captions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Changing text caption order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Deleting text captions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

CHAPTER 5: Adding Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Adding existing audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Equipment for recording audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Recording audio tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Setting audio recording options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Calibrating microphones for recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Recording audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Recording audio while creating a movie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Creating background audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Using a custom keyboard tap sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Adding silence to an audio file. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Adjusting audio volume. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Adding existing audio to boxes and buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Recording audio for boxes and buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Setting keyboard tap sounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Editing audio files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Editing audio timing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Viewing audio details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Previewing audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Deleting audio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

CHAPTER 6: Adding Images and Animation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Adding images. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Adding rollover images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Inserting images as slides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Creating watermark images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Changing JPEG quality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Deleting images. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

About animation in Captivate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Adding animations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Adding animated text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Adding animation slides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

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CHAPTER 7: Adding Boxes and Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Adding highlight boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Adding click boxes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Addng text entry boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Adding buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Adding Javascript to boxes and buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Adding existing audio to boxes and buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Deleting buttons and boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

CHAPTER 8: Editing Mouse Movement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Changing mouse pointers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Changing mouse pointer size. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Changing mouse click sounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Setting mouse click effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Changing mouse movements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Aligning mouse paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Using straight and curved mouse paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Hiding the mouse pointer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

CHAPTER 9: Changing Timing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Customizing Timeline appearance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Changing the order of object layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Previewing a slide using the playhead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Changing slide timing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Setting caption speed automatically. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Changing keystroke speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Changing mouse pointer speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Changing object timing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Controlling Captivate movies with variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

CHAPTER 10: Slides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Adding slides to a movie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Editing slides. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Changing movie start and end. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Adding playback controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Securing slides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

CHAPTER 11: Adding Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Importing objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Duplicating objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Copying and pasting objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Copying and pasting objects from other projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Aligning objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Aligning objects on the Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Changing object display order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Changing the size of multiple objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Aligning objects with the grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Merging objects into a slide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

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CHAPTER 12: Editing Movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Determining the size of your movie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Deleting movies or templates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Hiding movies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Previewing movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Renaming movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Resizing movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Saving movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Setting the background color. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Setting movie preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Adding a loading screen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Setting movie properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Using a custom keyboard tap sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Checking spelling in Captivate projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

CHAPTER 13: Creating eLearning Content. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Creating branching in Captivate movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Creating question slides. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Setting eLearning output options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Setting eLearning pass rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Creating feedback messages for quizzes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Creating a manifest file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Creating a PIF. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Organizing quizzes with the Quiz Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

CHAPTER 14: Creating a Menu of Captivate Movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Creating projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Using text in MenuBuilder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Using images in MenuBuilder Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Using clickboxes in MenuBuilder projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Changing MenuBuilder project options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Exporting MenuBuilder projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

CHAPTER 15: Publishing Movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

Publishing movies as stand-alone (EXE) files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

Publishing movies as Flash files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Publishing movies as handouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Publishing movies to the web using FTP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

Sending movies using e-mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

Exporting text captions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

CHAPTER 16: Captivate and Other Software Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

Captivate and Flash. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

Captivate and Breeze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Captivate and RoboHelp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Captivate and PowerPoint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232

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CHAPTER 17: Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

How do I analyze bandwidth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

Troubleshooting animation timing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

Troubleshooting application distortion when recording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

Troubleshooting AVI errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

Troubleshooting choppy full motion recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Correcting colors in slides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Troubleshooting fonts on transparent captions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

Troubleshooting movie size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

Troubleshooting text viewed in a browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

Troubleshooting the number of slides in a movie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

Uninstalling Macromedia Captivate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

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CHAPTER 1

Introduction and Installation

Macromedia Captivate is a professional software tool for quickly creating interactive

demonstrations and simulations in a variety of formats including Flash (SWF) and EXE. Anyone

who needs to develop online product demonstrations, software simulations for e-learning, or

online tutorials for user support will find Captivate an ideal solution. Captivate includes

everything you need to record actions in any application and instantly create a simulation.

Captivate enables you to add customized text captions, audio (voice-overs, background music,

and sound effects), video, Flash animations, text animations, images, hyperlinks, and more to

your movies. A small file size and high resolution make Captivate simulations and demonstrations

easy to publish online or burn to CD for use in training, sales, marketing, or user support.

If you use Captivate to create e-learning content, you can add realistic, fully interactive question

slides, buttons, click boxes, and text entry boxes. Captivate is SCORM 1.2 and 2004 certified and

AICC compliant, allowing effortless integration with any Learning Management System (LMS),

Macromedia Authorware, or Questionmark Perception.

Key features of Captivate

Following is a list of key Captivate features.

•Rapidly develop software simulations and demonstrations Get up and running in

Macromedia Captivate immediately with a friendly user interface and a new start page. Simply

start recording any application and Captivate automatically captures every action on the

screen. Increase productivity using timesaving features like AutoText Captions (automatically

inserts a text description of each recorded task), automatic addition of highlight boxes, scored

user interactions, and instructional feedback.

•Create simulations and demonstrations in Flash format, without knowing Flash When the

recording is done, Captivate instantly creates a Flash simulation of on-screen actions, complete

with smooth mouse animations and text descriptions or scored interactions with instructional

feedback. No Flash knowledge or programming skills are required.

•Edit slides and mouse movement Every screen is a completely editable slide that can be

removed, replaced, or revised. Audio mistakes can easily be fixed using the new audio editor.

This makes changing or updating projects easy.

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•Include interactivity without programming Increase the effectiveness of simulations by

easily adding interactivity including quizzing with scoring and branching, text entry fields with

multiple correct answer options, and click boxes. Multiple interactions and objects can be

inserted into a single slide, enabling numerous choices or complex realistic simulations. When

recording in simulation mode, Captivate automatically adds scored interactions and

instructional feedback.

•Integrate with other eLearning applications Leverage existing resources by integrating

simulations with other eLearning tools. Captivate supports SCORM 2004, SCORM 1.2 and

AICC, making it easy to deploy simulations through any learning management system (LMS).

Captivate integrates especially well with Macromedia Breeze, even generating special files in

the background that enable tracking and searching in Breeze.

•Let Captivate do the work, then import projects into Flash Take the manual work out of

creating software simulations and demonstrations in Flash. With Captivate, there is no need to

manually take screen shots and add mouse tweens in Flash. Record applications in Captivate

and export the project to Flash MX 2004 for advanced editing and further development.

•Enhance the Macromedia Breeze experience Increase training effectiveness by adding

interactive simulations to Breeze Meetings and Breeze Training. Viewers can be active

participants who can fully interact with the simulation.

•Maximize creativity with custom controls, templates, and menus Customize templates,

captions, and playback controls to match corporate identity or the graphical interface of

applications. Create eye-catching menu pages to display any set of Captivate projects, enabling

end users to access multiple simulations from one central location.

•Publish to a variety of formats Author a simulation once and generate multiple file formats

including SWF and EXE for easy distribution in the format of choice. Easily create handouts

or job aids using the Microsoft Word publish feature.

•Deliver rich media projects to over 98% of web users In Captivate, create high quality

content while maintaining a small file size. Immediately email projects, or post them on a web

site, Intranet, or an online help system. Take advantage of the ubiquitous Flash Player to

stream interactive projects. No plug-in downloads are necessary; over 98% of Internet users

can already view Flash files.

What’s new in Macromedia Captivate

Macromedia Captivate provides major new features and enhancements, including the following:

•Control timing easily with a visual Timeline Save production time and visually control the

timing of each slide element by dragging and dropping in the Timeline. Display multiple

objects or even two or more captions simultaneously. Drag and drop Timeline layers to change

the order of objects on a slide—the slide automatically updates to reflect the change.

•Preview slides instantly Make slide changes and see the results instantly by playing the slide

without compiling or generating a preview. Use the playhead to preview a specific section of a

slide, or to scrub and see the slide in slow motion.

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