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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, you have gone through the entire production process of a Video Demo project. Video Demos are a very special kind of project aimed at producing linear .mp4 video files. They use their own file extension (.cpvc) and their own customized Captivate interface.

During the post-production phase, you have trimmed out the unwanted portions from your Video Demo. You have also learned how to place Captivate objects on top of the video file in order to enhance the screencast and provide the best possible experience to your learners. Inserting and formatting objects in a Video Demo works the exact same way as in a regular Captivate project. The only difference is the type of objects available. Since a Video Demo project can only be published as a linear video file, the interactive objects of Captivate are, logically, not supported.

On one hand, Video Demos only support...