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CHAPTER 2
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Exploring the workspace
Open an Adobe Captivate project. Select Edit > Preferences. In the Category panel of the Preferences dialog
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box, expand Recording in the Category panel, and select Keys.
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To change keys, click once in one of text boxes and, on the keyboard, press the key or key combination you want
to use. For example, click inside the stop recording text box and then press Shift+Alt+4. The key combination you
entered now appears in the stop recording text box. You can use almost any key, including the Control, Alt,
Shift+Control, and Shift+Alt keys. For example, you could change the stop recording key to Alt+R.
When you finish, click OK.
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About the bandwidth monitor
Adobe Captivate allows you to view how much bandwidth a selected project requires. You can see how much
bandwidth each slide requires and how well the slides stream over a variety of connections. With this knowledge,
you can make project adjustments as necessary.
To analyze project bandwidth:
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Open an Adobe Captivate project.
Select Project > Bandwidth Analysis.
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Adobe Captivate generates the slides and the Bandwidth Monitor dialog box appears.
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This dialog box contains three tabs: Slide Summary, Graph, and Project Summary. Navigate through the tabs
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as necessary.
The Slide Summary displays information about each slide.
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This tab provides information about the speed and size related information of the slide.
Slide Summary tab
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Displays the slide number.
Slide
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(Kilobytes per second) As a general rule, any frame with less than 3 KB per second streams well
KB per sec
over a modem Internet connection. Frames with larger amounts of bandwidth might, depending upon several
factors, cause playback to pause. If previous frames require lower bandwidth, the higher bandwidth frame might
download at an acceptable speed. Note that the first frame in a project always has a higher KB per second value,
because it is the first frame to load and additional project information must load with it.
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The frame duration, in seconds.
Seconds
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The size of any included video.
Video (KB)
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