Recording Tips - Adobe CAPTIVATE 5 Help Manual

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Last updated 4/22/2010

USING ADOBE CAPTIVATE 5

Recording Projects

Select Edit > Preferences (Windows) or Adobe Captivate > Preferences (Mac OS). In the Preferences dialog box, select

Defaults from the Recording menu. Change the styles for the objects as required.

To create a new object style, click Create New Style and create a new style in the Object Style Manager.

Recording tips

The following tips and tricks can help you create Adobe Captivate projects quickly and easily, while also giving you

professional, high-quality results:

Even for projects that need a few manually generated screenshots, consider

Use automatic recording as far as possible

automatic recording. Set the autorecord option, but press Print Screen whenever you want to take an extra screenshot.

This method is effective if you are recording a website that contains many pop-ups, frames, and special effects. Adobe

Captivate plays a camera shutter sound each time a screenshot is automatically captured. To generate a screenshot at

a place where you do not hear the sound, press Print Screen to manually take a screenshot.

For example, if you are recording Microsoft Internet Explorer, there can be dynamic HTML or Flash menus that

appear only when the mouse rolls over them. Adobe Captivate does not automatically capture the change that occurs

on mouse rollover. Press Print Screen to manually capture the change.

Perform actions more slowly

Go slowly when recording, particularly when recording websites in Internet Explorer

than you would normally during recording. It is especially important to go slowly when capturing actions on a website

in Internet Explorer. If you are manually recording, ensure that each web page is loaded before capturing a screenshot.

During autorecording, wait for the shutter sound before performing another

Wait for the camera shutter sound

action.

If you are manually recording, Adobe Captivate captures screenshots each time you press a designated key or key

combination. The default capture key is the Print Screen key. Each time you want to capture a screenshot, press the

Print Screen key; you'll hear the camera shutter sound.

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