Adobe CAPTIVATE 5 Help Manual page 176

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Last updated 4/22/2010 USING ADOBE CAPTIVATE 5
Advanced Editing and Project Reviews
Short description of the contents of the project. For example, "This project is a brief overview of Product
Description
ZYX."
Change project size and quality
Select Edit > Preferences > Project > SWF Size And Quality (Windows) or Adobe Captivate > Preferences > Project >
SWF Size And Quality (Mac OS) and specify the following properties:
Anti-aliasing smoothens out the text edges in the published file. Selecting this option
Antialias Transparent Captions
affects the size of the SWF file when the project is published. The transparent caption text in the published file is anti-
aliased.
Compresses the full motion recording SWF file to a smaller size. Choosing
Compress Full Motion Recording SWF File
this option can increase the time taken to preview or publish the project.
Indicates the quality of the published SWF file. You can select the quality of the SWF file by moving the slider
Settings
bar to the corresponding option: High, Medium, Low, or Custom. When you choose High, Medium, or Low, Adobe
Captivate uses its internal settings to set the quality of the file. Files of a higher quality are compressed to a lesser extent,
and therefore might be of a greater file size. You can customize the options for quality when you move the slider to the
Custom level.
Retains the slide quality settings defined in the Property inspector of the slide.
Retain Slide Quality Settings
Determines the image quality of bitmaps (screenshots) generated during recording. Reducing the image quality
BMP
reduces the file size but can affect the quality of the color in the images. Any bitmap files that you have inserted in the
project are also affected.
Determines the quality of JPEG files that you have inserted in the project. Reducing the image quality reduces
JPEG
the file size but can affect the quality of the color in the images. JPEG images are detailed and contain many colors, so
greatly lowering their quality is not advised.
Determines the quality of audio files used in the project. Audio files are converted to mp3 format before they
Audio
are published. A file with higher quality does not affect the file size drastically but significantly improves the audio
quality.
Enables Adobe Captivate to take into account only the difference between two slides
Advanced Project Compression
instead of publishing both the slides. The compression reduces the size of the published project. Choosing this option
can increase the time taken to preview or publish the project. Compressed projects sometimes do not play as intended
in Flash Player.
Compresses the published SWF file. Compressed SWF files can be played only with Flash Player 9
Compress SWF File
or later. Choosing this option can increase the time taken to preview or publish the project.
Define how a project starts and ends
Select Edit > Preferences > Project > Start And End (Windows) or or Adobe Captivate > Preferences > Project > Start
And End (Mac OS) and specify the following preferences:
The movie starts playing as soon as it is downloaded. If you want the movie to play only after the user clicks
Auto Play
the Play button, deselect this option. You can display an image until the user starts playing the movie. Click Browse
(...) to select the image. If you do not select an image, the first slide of the movie is displayed.
You can add a loading screen to the beginning of your project. A loading screen is useful if the first slide of
Preloader
the project is large or contains audio and takes a few moments to appear.
Adobe Captivate includes predefined loading screen images that you can use. Also, you can create a custom image to
use as a loading screen.