Chapter 2: Exploring The Workspace - Adobe 65029940 - Captivate - PC Using Manual

Captivate is designed so you can create a movie easily. Following is an overview of the Captivate
work environment.
Views
Captivate has two main views: Storyboard view and Edit view (with the Filmstrip).
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Storyboard: This view appears when you open a movie from the Start Page. The movie opens
with small images representing the slides that constitute the movie. Storyboard view provides
an easy way to see all of the slides within a movie at a glance. It also enables you to see the flow
of the movie. You can change the properties of multiple slides at the same time: to select
multiple slides, hold down the Shift or Control key while clicking on slides; to select all slides,
press Control+A.
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Edit: This view appears when you double-click on a slide in Storyboard view. After recording a
Captivate movie, you will probably spend most of your time in Edit view, because this is the
view in which you add movie objects (such as captions, images, click boxes, and audio). Using
this view, you can make many changes to a slide, such as altering the mouse movement and
changing the mouse pointer. Finally, Edit view contains the optional Filmstrip. The Filmstrip
lets you see all of the slides in a movie, even while editing an individual slide in Edit view.
Timeline
The Timeline is a visual representation of all objects on slides. The Timeline provides an easy way
to view, at a high level, all objects on a slide and their relationship to each other. With the
Timeline, you can organize objects and precisely control the timing of objects. For example, on a
slide that contains a caption, an image, and a highlight box, you can display the caption, then the
image four seconds later, and then the highlight box two seconds after that. The Timeline also
shows any audio associated with the slide or with objects on the slide, letting you easily coordinate
the timing of audio with objects.
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