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Mastering Adobe Captivate 2019 - Fifth Edition

By : Dr. Pooja Jaisingh, Damien Bruyndonckx
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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

Publishing a Video Demo

Due to its very nature, a Video Demo project can only be published as an .mp4 video file. In the following exercise, you will explore the available publishing options and publish the Chapter09/ecoderVideo.cpvc project using the following steps:

  1. Open or return to the Chapter09/encoderVideo.cpvc file.
  2. Make sure the file opens in edit mode.
  3. If you are not in edit mode, click the Edit button at the lower-right corner of the screen (if the Edit button is not displayed on the screen, it simply means that you are already in edit mode).
  4. Click the Publish | Publish to Computer icon or use the File | Publish menu item. In both cases, the Publish Video Demo dialog opens.
  5. In the Publish Video Demo dialog, make sure the Name of the project is encoderVideo.
  6. Click the ... button and choose the Chapter09 folder of your exercises as the destination of the published video file.
  7. Open the Preset dropdown. Take some time to inspect the available presets. When done, choose...