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Mastering Adobe Captivate 6

By : Damien Bruyndonckx
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Mastering Adobe Captivate 6

By: Damien Bruyndonckx

Overview of this book

Adobe Captivate is the industry-leading solution for authoring E-learning content. With adobe Captivate one can capture the on-screen action, enhance e-Learning projects, insert SCORM and AICC-compliant quizzes and then, publish your work in various formats for easy deployment on virtually any desktop and mobile device. Mastering Adobe Captivate 6 is a comprehensive guide to creating SCORM-compliant demonstrations, simulations and quizzes with Adobe Captivate. The sample projects demonstrate each and every feature of Adobe Captivate giving you the expertise you need to create and deploy your own professionalquality e-learning courses. Mastering Adobe Captivate 6 will guide you through the creation of three e-learning projects including a demonstration, a simulation and a SCORM-compliant quiz. The first part of the book will drive you through the main three steps of the Captivate production process. In the first step, we will use the powerful capture engine of Captivate to generate the needed slides and screenshots. In the second step, we will enhance our slides and screenshots using the objects provided by Captivate. These objects include animations, interactions, videos and more. In the third step, we will make our project available to the outside world by publishing it in various formats including Adobe Flash PDF, video, and even HTML 5. The second part of the book will focus on the advanced tools of Captivate. These tools include the questions slides that make up a quiz, SCORM and AICC compliance, localization of your e-Learning content and widgets among others. In the last chapter, you we will unleash the true power of Captivate by using the variables and the advanced actions to create a unique e-Learning experience.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Mastering Adobe Captivate 6
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Shooting the first movie


It is time to have a first experience of an actual recording session. Shooting a movie is a four-step process, as the following:

  • Preparing the application to shoot

  • Rehearsing the scenario

  • Shooting the movie

  • Previewing the rushes

Let's review these four steps one by one.

Preparing the application to shoot

For this exercise, the application we will use is the Adobe Media Encoder CS6. This application is used to convert virtually any type of video files to Flash video and HTML5 video. The Adobe Media Encoder CS6 is part of your Captivate or eLearning Suite bundle. Therefore, if you have Captivate (even the trial version), you also have the Adobe Media Encoder CS6!

We will now reset the Captivate workspace and open the Adobe Media Encoder using the following steps:

  1. 1. Open Captivate. If Captivate is already opened, close every open file.

  2. 2. Make sure the default Classic workspace is applied.

  3. 3. Open the Adobe Media Encoder Application. On the Mac, it is situated in the /Applications...