Adobe CAPTIVATE 5 Help Manual page 105

Last updated 4/22/2010
• Add a beginning slide and an end slide: For effective control over video distribution, you can, if necessary add
slides prior to the first slide or after the last slide in your project. This is useful if unused video is present in the
beginning or end. The slide video is distributed across these slides also.
To do this, use the (
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Closed Captioning: If your slide video has audio content, use the Closed Captioning tab to enter captions for
hearing-impaired users. The text is displayed along with the audio when the slide is played.
Synchronizing other objects with video
When you insert objects, to identify the exact location of the video, play the slide (File > Preview > Play Slide), pause,
and then insert objects.
Note: When you play a slide, an error can occur occasionally at the beginning or the end of the video. The video starts or
ends slightly earlier or after the intended time. This behavior does not exist when the entire project is played.
Changing the video proportion
You cannot change the proportion of the video, so that the quality is intact.
Managing slide video
The Video Management dialog box (Video > Video Management) provides details of the slide videos that you have
inserted, the slide and slide groups to which they belong, the video type, URL of the hosted video file, and the
placement (if on TOC or stage).
Use this dialog box to:
• Specify video type: The type of video that you insert. For details, see
• Specify placement: If TOC or Stage. Depending on the placement, an icon appears at the lower-right corner of the
slide on Filmstrip:
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if on TOC
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if on stage
You might place the video on TOC in talking heads scenarios where the focus is on objects in the slide (such as text
or a Flash video). Placing video on TOC, helps you avoid the distraction that playing a slide video on stage can cause
and viewers losing focus.
When you have the slide video play on TOC, ensure that you select Show TOC (Project > Table of Contents) so that
TOC also is visible while you play the project.
• Launch Edit Video timing dialog box: Click
• Delete: Click to delete slide video.
Updating slide videos
Modify the video in the source file and then update it to the library. The changes reflect on all slides that use the
updated video.
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USING ADOBE CAPTIVATE 5
Noninteractive Objects and Media
"Properties of video files" on page 93.
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