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Recording movies
Captivate makes creating a new movie easy. When you record a Captivate movie, you use the
application or website you want to demonstrate as you would normally, by moving the mouse,
using the keyboard, and navigating through menus. As you work, Captivate captures the onscreen
action automatically, or you can capture screen shots manually. When you finish recording, you
can set options and add components such as text captions, audio, images, and highlight boxes.
Captivate contains a feature called "full motion recording" that automatically captures frames at a
higher frame rate when you record any drag-and-drop actions.
You can create several kinds of Captivate movies. The recording process is similar for each type,
but each has some unique options.
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Application: Records all selected action within a single running application.
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Custom: Records all selected action within a custom-defined area. If you select this option, set
a custom size in the Width and Height boxes or select a commonly used size from the Preset
Size pop-up menu.
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Full Screen: Records all onscreen action. This option is especially useful if you need to capture
action taking place in multiple applications.
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Blank: Records a blank frame in a size you specify. This option is useful if you want to create an
empty movie and then import Microsoft PowerPoint slides, slides from another movie, or
images.
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Image movie: Provides you with an easy way to create a Captivate movie made up of images.
When the resulting movie is published and viewed, it looks like a slide show.
Tip: If you need to pause recording, press the Pause/Break key. To restart recording, press Pause/
Break again.
Recording a new application movie
Use this recording option to record all action within a single running application. You can start
any type of application such as a word processing program, a graphics program, a spreadsheet
program, or any kind of software you have and record the action that takes place within the
application.
Captivate contains a special feature called "full motion recording" that can automatically capture
frames at a higher frame rate when you record any drag-and-drop actions.To record a new
application movie:
Open the application you want to record. (You must do this before recording.)
1.
Open Captivate.
2.
On the Start Page, click Record or create a new movie.
3.
The New movie options dialog box appears.
Select Application and click OK.
4.
The Recording window appears.
In the Record specific window pop-up menu, select the application to record.
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