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Mastering Adobe Captivate 8

Mastering Adobe Captivate 8

By : Damien Bruyndonckx
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Mastering Adobe Captivate 8

Mastering Adobe Captivate 8

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By: Damien Bruyndonckx
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Overview of this book

If you are a teacher, instructional designer, eLearning developer, or human resources manager who wants to implement eLearning, then this book is for you. A basic knowledge of your OS is all it takes to create the next generation of responsive eLearning content.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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Reader feedback
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1. Getting Started with Adobe Captivate 8
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1. Getting Started with Adobe Captivate 8
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Obtaining Captivate
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The first look at a typical production workflow
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Touring the Captivate interface
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Exploring the sample applications
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Discussing the sample apps scenario
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Summary
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Meet the community
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2. Capturing the Slides
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2. Capturing the Slides
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Choosing the right resolution for the project
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Recording the first project
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The inner working of the Captivate capture engine
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Controlling Captivate during the shooting session
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Exploring the preferences
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Recording the other versions of the project
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Recording with System Audio
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The Video Demo recording mode
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Automatic and manual panning
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Responsive capture
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Rescaling a project
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Summary
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Meet the community
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3. Working with Standard Objects
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3. Working with Standard Objects
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Preparing your work
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Working with the Properties panel
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Exploring the objects of Captivate
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Working with Text Effects
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Summary
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Meet the community
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4. Working with Multimedia
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4. Working with Multimedia
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Editing a Full Motion Recording
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Inserting external animations into the project
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Working with video
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Working with audio
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Adding background music to the entire project
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Adding audio to the slides
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Editing a sound clip in Captivate
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Using the Advanced Audio Management window
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Adding Closed Captions to the slides
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Summary
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Meet the community
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5. Working with the Timeline and Other Useful Tools
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5. Working with the Timeline and Other Useful Tools
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Preparing your work
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Working with the Library
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Laying out the objects on the slides
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Working with the Timeline
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Adding effects to objects
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Summary
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Meet the community
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6. Working with Interactive Objects
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6. Working with Interactive Objects
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Preparing your work
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Working with Buttons
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Discovering the Rollover objects
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Working with the Drag and Drop interaction
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Creating a simulation
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Summary
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Meet the community
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7. Working with Styles, Master Slides, Themes, and Templates
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7. Working with Styles, Master Slides, Themes, and Templates
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Working with the Swatch Manager
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Working with Styles
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Working with Themes
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Creating a custom Theme
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Working with Templates
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Summary
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Meet the community
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8. Producing a Video Demo
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8. Producing a Video Demo
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The Video Demo interface
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The postproduction phase of a Video Demo project
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Publishing a Video Demo project
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Summary
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Meet the community
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9. Creating a Responsive Project
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9. Creating a Responsive Project
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About Responsive Projects
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Setting up a Responsive Project
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Testing a Responsive Project
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Adding content in a Responsive Project
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Sizing and positioning content in a Responsive Project
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Summary
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Meet the community
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10. Working with Quizzes
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10. Working with Quizzes
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Introducing the quiz
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Creating Question Slides
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Previewing the quiz
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Creating a Pretest
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Exploring the Quiz Preferences
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Working with Question Pools
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Styling the elements of the Question Slides
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Reporting scores to an LMS
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Understanding SCORM, AICC, and Tin Can
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Enabling reporting in Captivate
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Summary
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Meet the community
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11. Using Captivate with Other Applications
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11. Using Captivate with Other Applications
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Integrating Captivate with PowerPoint
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Localizing a Captivate project using Microsoft Word
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Importing a Photoshop file into Captivate
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Editing audio with Adobe Audition
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Exporting to Flash Professional
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Exporting the project to XML
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Summary
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Meet the community
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12. Working with Variables, Advanced Actions, and Widgets
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12. Working with Variables, Advanced Actions, and Widgets
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Working with variables
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Working with Advanced Actions
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Geolocation in Adobe Captivate
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Working with Smart Learning Interactions
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Summary
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Meet the community
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13. Finishing Touches and Publishing
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13. Finishing Touches and Publishing
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Finishing touches
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Publishing a Captivate project
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Publishing for devices
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Summary
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Meet the community
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Index
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Index

Working with Advanced Actions

An Advanced Action is a small script that is executed at runtime by the Flash Player or by the JavaScript engine of the web browser. These Advanced Actions can be used to manipulate the data contained in Variables, the objects of Captivate or even the project itself.

In Captivate, there are three families of Advanced Actions:

  • Standard Actions: These actions are simple procedures that are always executed in the same way.
  • Conditional Actions: These actions are a bit more complex. They can evaluate if a given condition is true or false and act accordingly. Consequently, they do not always perform the same set of actions each time they are executed.
  • Shared Actions: These actions are designed to be reused throughout a given project or even shared across projects.

In the next exercise, you will create a couple of Standard Actions to get a sense of what they can achieve.

Using Standard Actions

A Standard Action is the simplest form of Advanced Action that can be created...

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