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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

Deleting unwanted portions of the Video Demo

When you are recording videos, it's very difficult to get everything right in one take. Adobe Captivate understands that, and allows you to trim out the unwanted portions from your Video Demo. Let's trim these unwanted portions from the video using the following steps:

  1. With the encoderVideo.cpvc file still open, go to the Timeline panel.
  2. Move the Playhead to the position where you left some silence or made a mistake.
If you made a perfect recording with no mistakes, feel free to open the Chapter09/encoderVideo_Start.cpvc file from your exercises folder, where I've made quite a few mistakes to help you practice the trim functionality.
  1. Click the Play button at the bottom of the Timeline to play the video and confirm the duration of the silence/mistake.
  2. You need to trim that portion now. To do so, bring the red playhead back to the start of the silence/mistake.
  3. Then, click the Trim button at the bottom...