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Mastering Adobe Captivate 2017 - Fourth Edition

By : Dr. Pooja Jaisingh, Damien Bruyndonckx
Book Image

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)

Working with the timeline

By default, the Timeline is hidden from the Captivate interface. To reveal it, click the Timeline bar at the bottom of the screen. The primary purpose of the Timeline is to organize the sequence of events on each slide, but the Timeline panel can be used for other purposes as well. This is what you will explore in this section.

Using the timeline to select objects

Sometimes, the objects are so close to each other that you might have a hard time selecting the correct one. The objects can also be stacked on top of one other so that selecting an object that is not on top of the stack can be very tricky. Using the Timeline panel, you can make sure that the object you select is the one you actually want...