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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

Selecting the Video Demo recording settings

In this exercise, you will create a Video Demo version of the Encoder Demonstration that you recorded in Chapter 8, Capturing Onscreen Action.

The first step is to reset your system:

  1. Restart the Adobe Media Encoder application.
  2. Delete all the .mp4 files present in the videos/MOV folder of the exercise files.

Now that your system is ready, let's create a Video Demo project.

If you have a problem while doing this exercise, refer to the Chapter09/final/encoderVideo.cpvc file of your exercises folder.
  1. Use the File | Record a New | Video Demo menu item to start a new Video Demo project.

This option is also available on the New tab of the Welcome screen of Captivate when no file is open.

The recording dialog appears. You can see the recording settings on the left and your Webcam feed on the right side of the dialog:

  1. At the top of the recording dialog, select Application...