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Mastering Adobe Captivate 7

By : Damien Bruyndonckx
Book Image

Mastering Adobe Captivate 7

By: Damien Bruyndonckx

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Mastering Adobe Captivate 7
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


In this chapter, you have completed the first step of the Captivate production process: capturing the slides. Throughout this chapter, your main concern was to manage the size of the project as compared to the size of the application to capture.

Several approaches are possible to address this size issue. While experiencing each of these approaches, you uncovered two important features of Captivate: Full Motion Recording and panning.

Shooting a Captivate recording is a four-step process. First, you have to prepare the application to shoot and reset your system to default. Then, you rehearse the script as many times as needed to fully master all the actions. The third step is to shoot the movie, and the last step is to preview the rushes. If you decide that the rushes are not good enough, just start over until you get it right. Remember that the success of the editing phase that follows depends on the quality of the shooting.

You also discovered that Captivate has four automatic recording...