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Mastering Adobe Captivate 8

By : Damien Bruyndonckx
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Mastering Adobe Captivate 8

By: Damien Bruyndonckx

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Mastering Adobe Captivate 8
Damien Bruyndonckx
Apr, 2015 | 638 pages
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Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Mastering Adobe Captivate 8
Mastering Adobe Captivate 8
Credits
Credits
Foreword
Foreword
About the Author
About the Author
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
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1
Getting Started with Adobe Captivate 8
Getting Started with Adobe Captivate 8
Obtaining Captivate
The first look at a typical production workflow
Touring the Captivate interface
Exploring the sample applications
Discussing the sample apps scenario
Summary
Meet the community
2
Capturing the Slides
Capturing the Slides
Choosing the right resolution for the project
Recording the first project
The inner working of the Captivate capture engine
Controlling Captivate during the shooting session
Exploring the preferences
Recording the other versions of the project
Recording with System Audio
The Video Demo recording mode
Automatic and manual panning
Responsive capture
Rescaling a project
Summary
Meet the community
3
Working with Standard Objects
Working with Standard Objects
Preparing your work
Working with the Properties panel
Exploring the objects of Captivate
Working with Text Effects
Summary
Meet the community
4
Working with Multimedia
Working with Multimedia
Editing a Full Motion Recording
Inserting external animations into the project
Working with video
Working with audio
Adding background music to the entire project
Adding audio to the slides
Editing a sound clip in Captivate
Using the Advanced Audio Management window
Adding Closed Captions to the slides
Summary
Meet the community
5
Working with the Timeline and Other Useful Tools
Working with the Timeline and Other Useful Tools
Preparing your work
Working with the Library
Laying out the objects on the slides
Working with the Timeline
Adding effects to objects
Summary
Meet the community
6
Working with Interactive Objects
Working with Interactive Objects
Preparing your work
Working with Buttons
Discovering the Rollover objects
Working with the Drag and Drop interaction
Creating a simulation
Summary
Meet the community
7
Working with Styles, Master Slides, Themes, and Templates
Working with Styles, Master Slides, Themes, and Templates
Working with the Swatch Manager
Working with Styles
Working with Themes
Creating a custom Theme
Working with Templates
Summary
Meet the community
8
Producing a Video Demo
Producing a Video Demo
The Video Demo interface
The postproduction phase of a Video Demo project
Publishing a Video Demo project
Summary
Meet the community
9
Creating a Responsive Project
Creating a Responsive Project
About Responsive Projects
Setting up a Responsive Project
Testing a Responsive Project
Adding content in a Responsive Project
Sizing and positioning content in a Responsive Project
Summary
Meet the community
10
Working with Quizzes
Working with Quizzes
Introducing the quiz
Creating Question Slides
Previewing the quiz
Creating a Pretest
Exploring the Quiz Preferences
Working with Question Pools
Styling the elements of the Question Slides
Reporting scores to an LMS
Understanding SCORM, AICC, and Tin Can
Enabling reporting in Captivate
Summary
Meet the community
11
Using Captivate with Other Applications
Using Captivate with Other Applications
Integrating Captivate with PowerPoint
Localizing a Captivate project using Microsoft Word
Importing a Photoshop file into Captivate
Editing audio with Adobe Audition
Exporting to Flash Professional
Exporting the project to XML
Summary
Meet the community
12
Working with Variables, Advanced Actions, and Widgets
Working with Variables, Advanced Actions, and Widgets
Working with variables
Working with Advanced Actions
Geolocation in Adobe Captivate
Working with Smart Learning Interactions
Summary
Meet the community
13
Finishing Touches and Publishing
Finishing Touches and Publishing
Finishing touches
Publishing a Captivate project
Publishing for devices
Summary
Meet the community
Index
Index

Credits

Author

Damien Bruyndonckx

Reviewers

Karen Drummey

Ruhul Islam Laskar

Commissioning Editor

Nadeem N. Bagban

Acquisition Editor

Harsha Bharwani

Content Development Editor

Rohit Kumar Singh

Technical Editors

Mrunmayee Patil

Shruti Rawool

Copy Editor

Roshni Banerjee

Project Coordinator

Mary Alex

Proofreaders

Simran Bhogal

Kevin McGowan

Indexer

Rekha Nair

Production Coordinator

Arvindkumar Gupta

Cover Work

Arvindkumar Gupta

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