Create Projects - Adobe CAPTIVATE 5 Help Manual

Last updated 4/22/2010
• Add quizzes to your project by adding question slides of different types, including multiple choice, matching, fill in
the blanks and image hot-spots. Randomize the questions to provide an entirely new set of questions to the learners
every time they take the course.
• Add narration to the project, either by recording audio or by converting text to speech.
To get feedback on the edited file, send it out to one or more reviewers. Reviewers can comment on the SWFs while
playing them in the Adobe Captivate Reviewer, an Adobe AIR application. The comments are automatically imported
into the project and displayed on the timeline, and in the SWF Commenting panel.
You can make the required changes to the project and publish it in multiple formats, including SWF, PDF and AVI
files. You can use the LMS settings in Adobe Captivate to publish a LMS-ready file.
You can do the following to improve efficiency when creating similar Adobe Captivate projects:
• Achieve consistency across projects using project templates.
• Ensure a consistent appearance for projects using design templates.
• Use rerecording scripts to automate the recording process for similar sequences for web applications.
You can enhance the potential of Adobe Captivate by using it with other software such as Adobe® Flash®, Microsoft®
PowerPoint®, RoboScreen Capture®, and Acrobat Connect®.
More Help topics
"Overview of project editing" on page 168
"Publishing Projects" on page 198

Create projects

Create a project by recording
You can create an Adobe Captivate project by recording events in an application or screen area on your computer. The
following modes of recording are available.
Adobe Captivate captures screenshots automatically and places them in separate slides. For
Automatic Recording
more information, see "Automatic
Adobe Captivate records the entire set of events in real time as a video. For more information,
Full Motion Recording
see "Full motion recording" on page 30.
You can manually capture screenshots using this option. The chosen set of screenshots appears
Manual Recording
sequentially in separate slides after the recording is complete. For more information, see
page 30.
For more information, see "Recording
Create a project from PowerPoint presentations
You can import an entire PowerPoint presentation, or only selected slides into an Adobe Captivate project. Each
PowerPoint slide is imported as a separate slide in the Adobe Captivate project. You can later edit the PowerPoint
presentations from within Adobe Captivate.
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recording" on page 28.
Projects" on page 28.
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Creating Projects
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