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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

Adding audio to the slides


Adding audio to the slides is, by far, the most interesting place to use audio in Captivate. Most of the time, slide level audio is used to add voice-over narration.

Narration can be added directly during the filming, but most of the time, it is recorded later in the process and carefully synchronized with the rest of the slides content. If you have an external audio application available, it is best to record the voice-over narration using that external application, but Captivate can do the job if needed.

Note

Adobe Audition

Adobe Audition is the audio application from Adobe. It is bundled in the eLearning Suite 6 and in the Creative Suite CS6 Production Premium. It is also available on the Creative Cloud. Adobe Audition (formerly Cool Edit) is an awesome and easy to use audio application. If Audition is available on your computer, use it to record and edit your audio clips instead of using Captivate. If you have the eLearning Suite 6, you can invoke Adobe Audition...