Summary

In this chapter, you have completed the first step of the Captivate production process: capturing the slides. Throughout this chapter, your main concern was to manage the size of the project as compared to the size of the application to capture.

Several approaches are possible to address this size issue. While experiencing each of these approaches you uncovered three important features of Captivate: Full Motion Recording, Panning, and responsive capture.

You also discovered that Captivate has four automatic recording modes: Demonstration, Assessment Simulation, Training Simulation, and a Custom mode that is yours to create. Each of these automatic recording modes adds Text Captions and other objects to the slides.

The Video Demo recording mode is entirely dedicated to producing linear, noninteractive .mp4 video files. These can be easily uploaded to online video hosting services such as YouTube, Vimeo, and DailyMotion.

The System Audio feature allows you to capture sound effects originating from the applications or from the system in addition to the screenshots and the onscreen action.

Of course, the recordings made in this chapter are by no means final products, but that was not your goal anyway. These projects now have to go through the editing phase to reach their final aspect.

In the next chapter, you will begin the editing phase of your work. The editing phase is the most time-consuming phase of the entire process. There are so many options and tools to discover that one chapter will not be enough to cover it all. Consequently, the editing phase will span almost all the remaining chapters of this book!