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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

Exploring the recording settings

Now let's focus on the Recording: Settings category of the Preferences dialog:

  1. Open the Recording: Settings category by clicking Settings under the Recording category in the left pane of the Preferences dialog

The first available option at the top of the recording settings preference pane is the Generate Captions In: drop-down list. Use it to choose the language used by Captivate to generate the various types of captions:

Other options available on this pane include the following:

  • When the Actions in Real Time checkbox is selected, the recording is played back at the same speed as the actions performed during the recording.
  • The Camera Sounds check box is used to turn the camera shutter sound on or off during the recording. Make sure this option is selected.
  • The Keystrokes and Hear Keyboard Tap Sounds options are responsible for recording the keystrokes and for the keystroke's sound during filming. It is best to leave these options selected...