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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 effects to objects


The ability to add effects to any object was a new and long-awaited feature of Captivate 5.

In the next exercise, we will animate the Adobe Media encoder logo we inserted on slide 3 in the previous chapter.

  1. 1. Return to the Chapter04/encoderDemo_800.cptx file.

  2. 2. Use the Filmstrip to go to slide 2.

  3. 3. Use the preview icon to preview the Next 5 Slides.

    When the preview reaches slide 3, pay particular attention to how the Adobe Media Encoder logo enters and leaves the stage. Besides the Fade In and Fade Out, no particular effect is applied. Close the Preview pane when finished.

  4. 4. Back in the Chapter04/encoderDemo_800.cptx file, go to slide 3 and select the Adobe Media Encoder logo.

  5. 5. In the Transition accordion of the Properties panel, open the Effect drop-down list and choose No Transition.

    We remove the Fade In and Out transition because we want to replace it with a much more sophisticated effect.

  6. 6. Use the Window | Effects menu to open the Effects panel.

    By default...