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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

Inserting animated GIF files into the project

In this exercise, you will import an animated GIF file on the blank slide you have created in the previous section. You will then test your project to see the animation at work. Use the following steps to perform this exercise:

  1. Make sure you are on slide 2 of the Chapter03/takeTheTrain.cptx project.
  2. Use the Media | Animation icon on the Toolbar to insert a new animation on the current slide.

In the dialog that opens, you have to choose which animation file you want to import. By default, this dialog opens on the Captivate Gallery folder, which can be found at the following locations:

  • Windows: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 2019 x64\Gallery 
  • macOS: /Applications/Adobe Captivate 2019/Gallery

The Gallery folder is further divided into several subfolders, with assets that you can use in your Captivate projects. However, in this exercise, you won't use the Gallery. Instead, you will use a custom .gif file.

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