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44 Chapter 3: Creating Projects
When you finish recording, Adobe Captivate generates the slides that comprise the project and
displays them in Adobe Captivate Storyboard view. Any drag-and-drop or mouse wheel scrolling
actions that you recorded as full motion slides are displayed in Storyboard view with a movie
camera icon in the lower-right corner of the slide. Full motion slides are saved and included in
projects as animation slides.
Tip: For best capture results, especially with full motion recording, perform actions (dragging, clicks,
typing) slowly.
The full motion recording feature is enabled by default. You can disable it, though, at any time.
To disable full motion recording of drag-and-drop or mouse wheel actions:
1.
Open an Adobe Captivate project
2.
From the Options menu, select Recording Options.
3.
Click the Full Motion Recording tab.
4.
Clear the Automatically use full motion capture for drag-and-drop actions option or the
Automatically use full motion capture for mouse wheel actions option.
5.
Click OK.
Using recording modes
Adobe Captivate not only records projects automatically, but also customizes what objects are
added to the projects you automatically create based on the purpose of your project. This feature
is called recording modes. For example, by selecting a recording mode, you can easily create
projects that are appropriate to use as simulations or demonstrations. This enables you to create
projects quickly because Adobe Captivate does much of the work.
Note: Recording modes can only be used when you are using Auto Recording. If you record projects
manually, the modes are not available.
To select and use a recording mode:
1.
Open Adobe Captivate.
2.
From the Options menu, select Recording Options.
3.
Click the Recording Options tab.
4.
Select Enable auto recording.
5.
From the Recording mode pop-up menu, select an option:
Demonstration Select this option to automatically include captions, highlight boxes, and
mouse movement in the auto-recorded project.
Assessment Simulation Select this option to automatically include click boxes with a failure
caption in the auto-recorded project. You can also choose to automatically create text entry
boxes. Mouse movement is not included.
Training Simulation
Select this option to automatically include click boxes with hint and
failure captions to the project. Mouse movement is not included