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Mastering Adobe Captivate 2019 - Fifth Edition

By : Dr. Pooja Jaisingh, Damien Bruyndonckx
Book Image

Mastering Adobe Captivate 2019 - Fifth Edition

By: Dr. Pooja Jaisingh, Damien Bruyndonckx

Overview of this book

Adobe Captivate is used to create highly engaging, interactive, and responsive eLearning content. This book takes you through the production of a few pieces of eLearning content, covering all the project types and workflows of Adobe Captivate. First, you will learn how to create a typical interactive Captivate project. This will give you the opportunity to review all Captivate objects 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 published as an MP4 video. Then, you will approach the advanced responsive features of Captivate to create a project that can be viewed on any device. And finally, you will immerse your learners in a 360o environment by creating Virtual Reality projects of Adobe Captivate. At the end of the book, you will empower your workflow and projects with the newer and most advanced features of the application, including variables, advanced actions, JavaScript, and using Captivate 2019 with other applications. If you want to produce high quality eLearning content using a wide variety of techniques, implement eLearning in your company, enable eLearning on any device, assess the effectiveness of the learning by using extensive Quizzing features, or are simply interested in eLearning, this book has you covered!
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
7
Working with Quizzes
14
Variables and Advanced Actions

Editing a sound clip in Captivate

Even though Captivate is not a fully-fledged audio editing application, it does have basic audio editing capabilities. You will now explore these capabilities with the narration that you just recorded.

If you are not happy with the audio you recorded, you can use the Chapter03/takeTheTrain_audio.cptx file for the next exercise. It contains my own audio recording made with the techniques described in the previous section (please forgive my strange-sounding voice; I had a bad cold on that day).

Use the following steps to finalize the audio you have recorded in the previous section:

  1. Return to the second slide of the Chapter03/takeTheTrain.cptx file.
  2. Use the Audio | Edit | Slide menu item to edit slide level audio. You can also use the Edit Audio button in the Options tab of the Properties inspector when the slide is selected.

This action opens the Slide Audio dialog on the Edit tab (see the arrow in the next screenshot). It is the same dialog you...