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Mastering Adobe Captivate 2017 - Fourth Edition

By : Dr. Pooja Jaisingh, Damien Bruyndonckx
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Mastering Adobe Captivate 2017 - Fourth Edition

By: Dr. Pooja Jaisingh, Damien Bruyndonckx

Overview of this book

<p>Adobe Captivate is used to create highly engaging, interactive, and responsive eLearning content. This book gives you the expertise you need to reinforce your own professional-quality eLearning course modules.</p> <p>The book takes you through the production of three pieces of eLearning content. First, you will learn how to create a typical interactive Captivate project. This will give you the opportunity to review all Captivate objects one by one and uncover the application's main tools. Then, you will use the built-in capture engine of Captivate to create an interactive software simulation and a Video Demo that can be uploaded to your YouTube channel or published as an MP4 video. Finally, you will approach the advanced responsive features of Captivate to create a project that can be viewed on any device. At the end of the book, you will empower your workflow and projects with the most advanced features of the application, including variables, advanced actions, using Captivate with other applications, and more.</p> <p>This book is an advanced tutorial, containing all the assets required to build its sample projects. Self-exploration is encouraged through extra exercises, experimentation, and external references.</p>
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, your project took on a whole new dimension. With the addition of multimedia elements, your eLearning is much more fun and dynamic to look at and your message is more powerful than ever.

You first learned how to import external animations in to your project. These can be Flash animations (.swf files), or HTML5 animations packaged in .oam files. Remember that HTML5 animations are supported both in the Flash and in the HTML5 output of Captivate, while the Flash based animations will play only if the Captivate project is published in Flash. Adobe Animate CC is the external application that was used to produce those animations.

You also learned how to insert video files into your course module. You can insert them as Event Videos or as Multi-Slides Synchronized Videos. Captivate lets you import various types of video files, but will always convert them to ...