In this chapter, you have completed the first step of the Captivate production process: capturing the slides. Throughout this chapter, your main concern was to manage the size of the project as compared to the size of the application to capture.

Several approaches are possible to address this size issue. While experiencing each of these approaches you uncovered three important features of Captivate: Full Motion Recording, Panning, and responsive capture.

You also discovered that Captivate has four automatic recording modes: Demonstration, Assessment Simulation, Training Simulation, and a Custom mode that is yours to create. Each of these automatic recording modes adds Text Captions and other objects to the slides.

The Video Demo recording mode is entirely dedicated to producing linear, noninteractive .mp4 video files. These can be easily uploaded to online video hosting services such as YouTube, Vimeo, and DailyMotion.

The System Audio feature allows you to capture sound effects originating...