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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

Working with Interactive Video

Back in Chapter 03Working with Multimedia, you inserted a video file on slide 20 of your takeTheTrain.cptx project. In this section, you will use some of the newest features of Adobe Captivate to turn this video file into an interactive experience. In Captivate 2019, there are two things you can do to make a video interactive:

  • You can add bookmarks on the video. These bookmarks act as destination points for the playhead. You can, for example, use an action to jump the playhead to a certain bookmark. This allows you to play the video from a very precise point rather than from the beginning of the file.
  • You can also add overlay slides on top of the video. This is typically used to pause the playback of the video at a certain point and overlay extra information, interactions, or a Question Slide right within the playback of the video file.
The Interactive Video feature is only supported in HTML5. It is very interesting to see that the newest features...