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As you add more and more points along the Timeline, the new points always retain the attributes of the previous point. Pan the video.
Position the Playhead at the beginning of the Timeline and then Preview the video. Close the Preview by clicking the Edit button. On the Timeline, click at the This is where the OK button is clicked in the Font dialog box. On the left of the Timeline, select the icon that looks like one-half of a diamond.
This is one of two Transition Markers you have in the video On the Video Effects Inspector, notice that there is a Transitions tab. Select any of the Transitions that you like; then click the half diamond at the right and add a Transition to the end of the video. At the right of the Timeline, drag the yellow rectangle a bit to the right to extend the playtime for the video by a second or so.
Preview from the beginning of the video to see the new Transition effects. Save your work. Keep the project open for the next activity. Unfortunately, the project you are working with is a video.
You can see the mouse pointer moving around the screen, but you cannot edit it. Or can you? Although it is not obvious that you have any mouse editing features in a Video Demo, looks are deceiving. In fact, you can display the mouse points within a Video Demo and perform such feats as deleting a mouse point, changing the appearance of the mouse, smoothing out the mouse path, and adding visual mouse clicks.
Display the Mouse Points. Each of the mouse points can be selected and edited. Smoothen a Mouse Path. Show the Mouse Click. Preview from the beginning of the video to see the new mouse path and visual click. One limitation of Transitions is that you can add a Transition only to Transition Markers the diamonds you see at the beginning and end of every video. But what if you need to add a Transition to the middle of a video segment? Guided Activity Split a Video 1. Open the SplitMe video project from the CaptivateData folder.
This video demonstrates two Notepad concepts: how to cut and paste text and how to change the Font and Font Size of text. Your goal is to add a transition between the first and second parts of the lesson. Transitions have already been added to the beginning and end of the video.
Split the video into two segments. The hour glass icon you see should have Transitions Confidence Check 1. Ensure that the SplitMe video project is still open.
Add any Transition you like to the new Transition Marker. Need help? See page Preview the video from the beginning to see the new Transition effect. For instance, if you intend to show the process of accessing the File menu in an application and accidentally open a different menu, the gaffe is recorded. The same is true if you begin the recording process but take several seconds to move your mouse. Every second and everything you do is being recorded. Guided Activity Trim a Video 1.
Open the TrimMe video project from the CaptivateData folder. This video is similar to the other videos you have played with during this module.
However, there is a significant amount of time at the beginning of the video where the mouse is just moving around the screen and nothing of substance is being demonstrated. Trim out the first few seconds of the video. The first six seconds of the video need to go. Trimming Confidence Check 1. Ensure that the TrimMe video project is still open. The last few seconds of the video need to be trimmed. Go ahead and make it happen. Preview from the beginning of the video to see the newly trimmed video.
Save your work and keep the project open. Keep in mind that if you search the Internet for images, use of any assets you find will likely be governed by a copyright restriction and lead to heavy fines for any unauthorized use.
Fortunately, Captivate comes with a wonderful assortment of free assets such as cut out people pictures of people with the background images and colors removed , icons, assets for virtual reality projects, audio files, and videos. In the activity that follows, you'll insert a Character for use in your Video Demo. Guided Activity Insert a Character Asset 1.
Ensure that the Playhead is as far left on the Timeline as it can go. Insert a Character. Still working in the TrimMe project, position the Character similar to the image below.
Using the Shapes tool, draw a Oval Callout on the slide. You first learned to work with Shapes on page Format the callout similar to the image below double-click the shape to add the text.
Guided Activity Insert a Video Project 1. Create a new, standard Captivate project. Insert a video project. Notice that a video slide contains a video icon in the lower right of the Filmstrip thumbnail. Preview the video slide. The ability to insert a video demo into a standard project means that you can combine the ease of creating videos with the interactivity of standard Captivate projects, which is pretty awesome!
Open a video editing session from within a standard project. Close all projects there is no need to save. You can have multiple text captions on the same slide, and you can control how the captions look to a limited degree , where they appear on the slide, and when they appear via the Timeline or the Properties Inspector.
Reset the Classic workspace. Preview the lesson. The lesson demonstrates the process of creating a new folder on an older version of Windows. During the next several activities, you will learn how to add Text Captions to several slides. You will also learn how to control the appearance of the captions and when they appear on the slide. Insert a Text Caption. Deselect the caption. Resize a Text Caption. Narrow and tall text captions are typically easier to read than wide and short captions.
Reposition a Text Caption on a slide. Ensure that the CaptionMe project is still open. Change the Caption type. Did the size of that pesky Text Caption change when you changed the Caption type? Disable the Autosize Captions option. Resize the Text Caption again Is that a good thing or a bad thing? I guess it depends on your perspective. Certainly, if you want Captivate to resize your Text Captions moving forward, turn the Autosize Captions option back on.
I always leave the option deselected. Change the character formatting for the caption text. There are two groups of fonts in Captivate: Web Safe and System. Change the appearance of a single word. At this point, you can edit the text within the caption and format selected words. Go to slide 3. Insert a Text Caption with the words Watch as the New command is selected.
Notice that the formatting of the new Text Caption does not match the appearance of your first Text Caption. No worries Go to slide 4 and insert a new Text Caption that says Watch as the Folder command is selected. Go to slide 6 and insert a new Text Caption that says Watch as the new Folder is selected 7. Save and then close the project. Did you notice that every time you inserted a Text Caption, the appearance of the caption reverted to a specific Caption type, font, and font size?
Although it is easy enough to change the appearance of the caption, you will quickly tire of the effort required to change every caption. Instead, you can alter the way Text Captions appear in this project via Caption Styles. Once you set up the appearance of the Caption Style, all new captions take on the attributes of the style and save you from extensive manual formatting.
Go from slide to slide and notice that most of the slides in this project contain a Text Caption. Override a style. But what about the Text Captions on the other slides? Explore the other slides. Observe an Object Style override. In fact, all of the Text Captions in the StyleMe project are using the Default Caption Style, which explains the reason that the appearance of every Text Caption in the project is consistent.
Okay, okay, you caught me. I should have stated that most of the captions are following the [Default Caption Style]. In fact, the Text Caption on slide 3 is following only a portion of the formatting specified in the style. How can you tell? Take a look at the name of the style in the Style drop-down menu.
For that reason, I discourage you from using the Properties Inspector to change the way any object looks. Instead, use the Properties Inspector to change the way objects behave Timing, Actions, etc. Those kinds of properties are not controlled by an Object Style. Reset a style. Edit the Default Caption Style. Make a few edits in one place the Object Style Manager , and potentially hundreds of slide objects are updated instantly.
Most Caption Types include up to five Callouts that point to different areas of the slide. While Caption types are part of an Object Style page 92 , Callouts are options you manually apply to a selected object, one object at a time.
Ensure that the StyleMe project is still open. Change the Callout used on a Text Caption. Confidence Check 1. Move the Text Caption up and to the left a bit until the position is similar to the image below. Go through the remaining slides and apply the third Callout to the rest of the captions. Position drag each of the captions on the slides where you think appropriate.
Each slide has a unique Timeline. You can use the Timeline to control the timing of any slide object. For instance, using the Timeline, you can force the captions to appear on the slide at the same time, or you can force one caption to appear as another goes away. The objects on a project slide are displayed as stacked bars on the left side of the Timeline.
The Header at the top of the Timeline indicates time in seconds and parts of seconds. The Playhead shows the point in time in which the slide is being viewed. Display the Timeline. Use the Timeline to extend the slide duration to eight seconds. Extend slide timing using the slide Properties. Use the Timeline to extend the display time for a Text Caption. Use the Timeline to change the timing for the mouse. Still working in the TimeMe project, change the Slide Duration for slide 1 to 5.
Preview the first five slides. The Text Caption on slide 1 should play for four seconds. While on slide 2, notice that it takes too much time for the click to actually occur—the timing needs work. Close the preview and go to slide 2.
On the Timeline, change the Slide Duration to 0. Starting with slide 1, preview the Next 5 Slides. When you get to slide 2, the timing of the mouse click should be better. The timing between slides and objects should be smooth.
When finished, close the preview, save, and close the project. I timed the Text Captions so that each one plays for five seconds and appears on the slide one after the other. Disable Calculate Caption Timing.
With the option selected, Captivate automatically calculates how long a caption stays on a slide based on the number of characters in the caption. I always disable Calculate Caption Timing.
On slide 1, notice that there are typos in the Text Captions from misspelled words to double words. Spell check the project. The first word that is flagged as Not In Dictionary is the word foolders. It should be replaced with the word folders. Ensure that the SpellMeAlignMe project is still open. Hide an object. One of the captions is in the way. Rather than drag it out of the way, only to have to drag it back, it is more efficient to temporarily hide it.
With the top-most caption hidden, you can easily see the three remaining captions. Even though the caption is hidden from view, it will still preview and publish.
Select multiple captions. Left-align the selected captions. In addition, the vertical space between the selected captions is evenly spaced. As slide 1 plays, notice that the timing of the Text Captions is pretty good. Sure you do! Close the preview and return to slide 1.
Select all three of the visible Text Captions on slide 1 the first Text Caption should still be hidden. On the Timeline, notice that the selected objects have stretched to the end of the slide. Notice that after the first Text Caption goes away, the remaining captions show for the rest of the slide. Show the hidden Caption. If you export the captions to Word, any team member can open the exported document with Word and make editorial changes.
Those changes can be imported into Captivate—something I call Round Tripping. You can use this round trip work-flow to create multiple-language versions of your project without having to rerecord or re-create the project. All you have to do is send the exported captions to a translator and have the caption text translated into another language. You would then import the translated captions back into your project. Export the project captions. You are notified when the captions have been exported.
The slide ID identifies to which slide your edited captions go. The Item ID identifies which caption goes with which caption data. Update the Word content. Return to the Captivate project. Import the edited caption into the Captivate project. Review the updated caption. How awesome is that? Save your work and close the project. If you do include the Mouse pointer, you can control the speed of the mouse, its exact starting and ending slide position, include visual Mouse clicks, and enable a click sound to further enhance the learner experience.
Guided Activity Control Mouse Effects 1. As the Mouse moves from slide to slide, notice that there is no visual indicator that a click is occurring, and no sound to accompany the click. Add a click sound to the Mouse. Add a visual Mouse click to the Mouse pointer on slide 4. Go to slide 3 and preview the next five slides. Add a visual Mouse click and Mouse click sound to the Mouse pointer on slides 5, 6, and 8.
Use the Timing Inspector to change the Transition for slide 2 to Wipe. As the lesson plays, pay particular attention to the Wipe transition you added that softens the abrupt jump between slides 1 and 2.
In addition, notice the visual Mouse clicks and sounds you added. When the preview is finished, close the preview. Captivate includes the ability to easily change the pointer path without having to re-record the lesson. After you record a Demonstration you learned how on page 47 that includes the Mouse cursor, you can change the way the Mouse pointer looks on a single Captivate slide or throughout the project. The pointer can be changed to a variety of icons, such as a hand, a vertical resize pointer, or a drag pointer.
If you are not happy with the pointer icons that come with Captivate, you can select any system pointer or existing CUR cursor file on your hard drive or network as the pointer image.
Guided Activity Edit a Mouse Path 1. Hide a slide object. To Show an item, click the red X, and it returns to the shape of a circle. Edit the pointer path. In that instance, Captivate creates a screen capture, and your Mouse is shown in the wrong part of the screen. How slick is that? Re-record a lesson? Still on slide 3, show the text caption that you hid a moment ago. Go to slide 4. You can get a better look at the problem by switching between slides 3 and 4, and you see the pointer jump between the two slides.
Hold on for a bit of magic as you tell the pointer on slide 4 to match the position of the pointer on slide 3. Align the slide position of the Mouse pointer with the previous slide.
Without this wonderful feature, you would have been forced to drag the pointer on slide 4 a bit at a time, and then constantly switch between slides 3 and 4 to ensure that the alignment is perfect. The Align to feature makes quick work of the process.
Change the Mouse pointer type. This change affects only the pointer on slide 9. Note: If you wanted to use this pointer type on all of the pointers in the current project, you could right-click the pointer on the slide and choose Use the current mouse pointer for all slides. They are particularly helpful if a slide is cluttered or visually distracting. Like most objects in Captivate, you can control the appearance of Highlight Boxes via Object Styles, and control the length of time they are onscreen via the Timeline or the Timing Inspector.
Guided Activity Clone an Object Style 1. Ensure that the PointerPathMe project is still open. Clone an existing style. You can now give the duplicate any name you like and then edit its attributes.
Insert a Highlight Box. Apply a different style to the new Highlight Box. If you are unhappy with the appearance of the object, you can at any time return to the Object Style Manager, select the style, and edit it.
Resize and reposition the Highlight Box. Review object timing on the Timeline. On the Timeline, notice that the Text Caption and Highlight Box are both set to appear right away and play for three seconds. After that, the Mouse appears. Preview a single slide. Then the Mouse does its thing. However, the timing for the caption is a bit off.
The reason? Update and then save changes to an existing style. The plus sign indicates changes have been made to the selected caption that do not match the attributes of the style. Play the slide. Now the timing and effects for both the Highlight Box and Text Caption match.
Save the project. Guided Activity Insert an Image Button 1. Set Image buttons as the default button style. Select an image for the image button. Insert the image button onto a slide. For instance, you can select Continue. With this Action selected, the slide continues to play the remaining time on the Timeline before the learner is taken to the next slide. Alternatively, you can elect to jump the learner to a specific slide in the project.
Or you can elect to have the button play a sound. Resize and reposition the button similar to the picture below. Preview the Next 5 slides. As the first slide plays, notice that the action stops too soon—not all of the slide objects have had a chance to appear. You will fix that problem next.
Edit the Properties of the button to show a Hand Cursor. Preview the First 5 slides. After slide 1 appears, notice that all of the slide elements show up on the slide, and then the lesson stops—waiting for you to click the button. Position your Mouse pointer over the button and notice that your Mouse pointer changes to a hand Mouse cursor—thanks to the Hand Cursor option you selected.
Click the button to jump to the next slide in the lesson. Close the preview, and then save and close the project. Once an image has been imported into a project, you can resize it, crop it, and apply multiple effects to it. Once in the Library, items can quickly be added to any slide. The project is loaded with images, audio, and videos.
Close the project do not save if prompted. Of course, most of the images are missing Insert an image onto slide 2. Drag the image a few inches to the left on the slide. Insert another image. Position the two images side by side similar to what is shown below. Guided Activity Import Images into the Library 1.
Show the Library. The assets listed in the Library are currently being used throughout the project. Import images into the Library. You can confirm the image usage via the Use Count column. Notice that the two newly-imported images have a zero to the right of each image name. Add a Library asset to a slide. Move the image a bit to the left to make room for a fourth and final image. Add another Library asset to a slide.
Manually resize an image. Reset an image size. I often receive questions as to the value of the Reset To Original Size button. Many people believe that it would be just as easy to Undo the image resize as an alternative to clicking the Reset To Original Size button. However, the Undo command is valuable only as long as the project is open. The Reset To Original Size button always works. Use the Properties Inspector to change the size of an image. With Constrain proportions selected, the height of the image changes proportionally when you change the width.
Specify a specific slide position for the image. Certainly you could select each image in turn and change its size. But check out this efficient little trick: 1. With the resized and repositioned Warehouse Safety image on slide 2 still selected, press [shift] on your keyboard and select each of the remaining three images.
Note: The selection order is critical. The Warehouse Safety image was already selected. As you selected each of the remaining images, the color of their selection handles is different than those found on the Warehouse Safety image. Notice that the warehouse image has lighter resizing handles than the other selected images.
The lighter resizing handles visually indicate to you that the selected image is the anchor. As you alter the size of the other images, the anchor will neither resize nor change slide position. All four of the selected images are the same size as the Warehouse Safety image.
Reposition the images similar to what is shown below. Import the following images into the Library. You learned how to do this on page Add the gloves image to slide 4 positioned similar to what is shown below. Add the shirt image to slide 5, positioned similarly to what you did on slide 4. Add the hard hat image to slide 6. Add the boots image to slide 7. Add the goggles image to slide 8. Insert and delete two images. Delete both of the images that you just inserted onto the slide.
Click OK to acknowledge the deletions. In the Library, notice that the images you deleted are still listed even though they are no longer used in the project. Although unused assets have no effect on the size of a published lesson, unused assets can bloat working project files.
I suggest that you routinely remove unused assets from your project which lowers the overall size of the project file. Delete unused Library items. They are now selected and can be deleted. When importing the video, you can elect to import a file directly from your computer or from a web server, Flash Video Streaming Service, or Flash Media Server. Guided Activity Insert a Video 1.
Insert a blank slide. Insert a video. You have two choices: Event Video typically video that is expected to play on only one slide and Slide Video video that can play across multiple slides or appear on the TOC. You will resize the video next. Using these controls, learners can pause or mute the video. In this case, you want the video to play without learner interaction. On the Properties Inspector, notice that changing the Skin to None has also made Auto Play inactive so the video will play automatically when the lesson is viewed.
Change the size of the video. Change the slide location of the video. Set the video timing. A video guide walks onto the stage from the right, introduces the lesson, and then walks off of the stage. Add a video to slide 5. Position and resize the video so that it fits between the green placeholders on the slide. Force the video to play automatically. For more information on this regulation, you may visit the European Union's site.
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Ensure that Captivate is running no projects need to be open. Videos created using 32 bit mode typically result in a larger video when compared to 16 bit videos. As you become more comfortable recording in Video Mode, experiment with the quality you get using both options. In the end, you should use the option that yields the best results for you. The Disney home page may feature videos complete with music and other loud sound effects. If you are in an office setting, consider lowering the volume on your computer before going on the next step.
You will not be able to use Captivate to capture the entire length of the page using standard screen captures. Instead, you will record a Video Demo that captures everything you do as you scroll around the Disney home page. At this point, you will stop the recording process. Select the browser window as the Application. Disable Panning, Audio, and the Webcam.
Record the Video Demo. Stop the recording process and preview the video. If you are a seasoned Captivate developer, you will find this behavior a bit strange. You could preview the lesson at regular intervals along the way, but previewing is a process you need to initiate. With Video Demos, the first thing you do is preview the recording and then edit the video as needed. Enter Video Edit mode. Notice also that the untitled video has a unique extension.
Standard Captivate projects use a cptx extension. Video projects contain a cpvc extension, which stands for Captivate Video Composition. Save the video project to the CaptivateData folder as ScrollingDisney and then close it. You can also close the web browser containing the Disney website.
Zooming gives you the ability to automatically get the learner closer to the action. Panning lets you automatically change the area of the screen that the learner sees. Guided Activity Add a Video Zoom 1. Preview the video. This is the part of the video where the Format menu is just about to be clicked.
Change the Scale of the zoom. On the slide itself, you are closer to the Notepad menus. On the Timeline, drag the Playhead left to the beginning of the Timeline.
Zooming closer to the action is an awesome feature. However, you cannot see the font and font size being changed. Close the Preview. Ensure that the PanZoomMe video project is still open. As you add more and more points along the Timeline, the new points always retain the attributes of the previous point.
Pan the video. Position the Playhead at the beginning of the Timeline and then Preview the video. Close the Preview by clicking the Edit button. On the Timeline, click at the This is where the OK button is clicked in the Font dialog box.
On the left of the Timeline, select the icon that looks like one-half of a diamond. This is one of two Transition Markers you have in the video On the Video Effects Inspector, notice that there is a Transitions tab.
Select any of the Transitions that you like; then click the half diamond at the right and add a Transition to the end of the video.
At the right of the Timeline, drag the yellow rectangle a bit to the right to extend the playtime for the video by a second or so. Preview from the beginning of the video to see the new Transition effects. Save your work. Keep the project open for the next activity. Unfortunately, the project you are working with is a video.
You can see the mouse pointer moving around the screen, but you cannot edit it. Or can you? Although it is not obvious that you have any mouse editing features in a Video Demo, looks are deceiving. In fact, you can display the mouse points within a Video Demo and perform such feats as deleting a mouse point, changing the appearance of the mouse, smoothing out the mouse path, and adding visual mouse clicks.
Display the Mouse Points. Each of the mouse points can be selected and edited. Smoothen a Mouse Path. Show the Mouse Click. Preview from the beginning of the video to see the new mouse path and visual click. One limitation of Transitions is that you can add a Transition only to Transition Markers the diamonds you see at the beginning and end of every video.
But what if you need to add a Transition to the middle of a video segment? Guided Activity Split a Video 1. Open the SplitMe video project from the CaptivateData folder. This video demonstrates two Notepad concepts: how to cut and paste text and how to change the Font and Font Size of text.
Your goal is to add a transition between the first and second parts of the lesson. Transitions have already been added to the beginning and end of the video. Split the video into two segments. The hour glass icon you see should have Transitions Confidence Check 1. Ensure that the SplitMe video project is still open. Add any Transition you like to the new Transition Marker. Need help?
See page Preview the video from the beginning to see the new Transition effect. For instance, if you intend to show the process of accessing the File menu in an application and accidentally open a different menu, the gaffe is recorded. The same is true if you begin the recording process but take several seconds to move your mouse. Every second and everything you do is being recorded.
Guided Activity Trim a Video 1. Open the TrimMe video project from the CaptivateData folder. This video is similar to the other videos you have played with during this module. However, there is a significant amount of time at the beginning of the video where the mouse is just moving around the screen and nothing of substance is being demonstrated. Trim out the first few seconds of the video.
The first six seconds of the video need to go. Trimming Confidence Check 1. Ensure that the TrimMe video project is still open. The last few seconds of the video need to be trimmed. Go ahead and make it happen. Preview from the beginning of the video to see the newly trimmed video. Save your work and keep the project open.
Keep in mind that if you search the Internet for images, use of any assets you find will likely be governed by a copyright restriction and lead to heavy fines for any unauthorized use.
Fortunately, Captivate comes with a wonderful assortment of free assets such as cut out people pictures of people with the background images and colors removed , icons, assets for virtual reality projects, audio files, and videos. In the activity that follows, you'll insert a Character for use in your Video Demo.
Guided Activity Insert a Character Asset 1. Ensure that the Playhead is as far left on the Timeline as it can go. Insert a Character. Still working in the TrimMe project, position the Character similar to the image below. Using the Shapes tool, draw a Oval Callout on the slide.
You first learned to work with Shapes on page Format the callout similar to the image below double-click the shape to add the text. Guided Activity Insert a Video Project 1. Create a new, standard Captivate project. Insert a video project. Notice that a video slide contains a video icon in the lower right of the Filmstrip thumbnail.
Preview the video slide. The ability to insert a video demo into a standard project means that you can combine the ease of creating videos with the interactivity of standard Captivate projects, which is pretty awesome! Open a video editing session from within a standard project.
Close all projects there is no need to save. You can have multiple text captions on the same slide, and you can control how the captions look to a limited degree , where they appear on the slide, and when they appear via the Timeline or the Properties Inspector. Reset the Classic workspace. Preview the lesson. The lesson demonstrates the process of creating a new folder on an older version of Windows. During the next several activities, you will learn how to add Text Captions to several slides.
You will also learn how to control the appearance of the captions and when they appear on the slide. Insert a Text Caption. Deselect the caption. Resize a Text Caption. Narrow and tall text captions are typically easier to read than wide and short captions.
Reposition a Text Caption on a slide. Ensure that the CaptionMe project is still open. Change the Caption type. Did the size of that pesky Text Caption change when you changed the Caption type? Disable the Autosize Captions option.
Resize the Text Caption again Is that a good thing or a bad thing? I guess it depends on your perspective. Certainly, if you want Captivate to resize your Text Captions moving forward, turn the Autosize Captions option back on.
I always leave the option deselected. Change the character formatting for the caption text. There are two groups of fonts in Captivate: Web Safe and System. Change the appearance of a single word. At this point, you can edit the text within the caption and format selected words.
Go to slide 3. Insert a Text Caption with the words Watch as the New command is selected. Notice that the formatting of the new Text Caption does not match the appearance of your first Text Caption. No worries Go to slide 4 and insert a new Text Caption that says Watch as the Folder command is selected. Go to slide 6 and insert a new Text Caption that says Watch as the new Folder is selected 7.
Save and then close the project. Did you notice that every time you inserted a Text Caption, the appearance of the caption reverted to a specific Caption type, font, and font size? Although it is easy enough to change the appearance of the caption, you will quickly tire of the effort required to change every caption.
Instead, you can alter the way Text Captions appear in this project via Caption Styles. Once you set up the appearance of the Caption Style, all new captions take on the attributes of the style and save you from extensive manual formatting. Go from slide to slide and notice that most of the slides in this project contain a Text Caption. Override a style. But what about the Text Captions on the other slides?
Explore the other slides. Observe an Object Style override. In fact, all of the Text Captions in the StyleMe project are using the Default Caption Style, which explains the reason that the appearance of every Text Caption in the project is consistent.
Okay, okay, you caught me. I should have stated that most of the captions are following the [Default Caption Style]. In fact, the Text Caption on slide 3 is following only a portion of the formatting specified in the style. How can you tell? Take a look at the name of the style in the Style drop-down menu.
For that reason, I discourage you from using the Properties Inspector to change the way any object looks. Instead, use the Properties Inspector to change the way objects behave Timing, Actions, etc. Those kinds of properties are not controlled by an Object Style.
Reset a style. Edit the Default Caption Style. Make a few edits in one place the Object Style Manager , and potentially hundreds of slide objects are updated instantly. Most Caption Types include up to five Callouts that point to different areas of the slide. While Caption types are part of an Object Style page 92 , Callouts are options you manually apply to a selected object, one object at a time.
Ensure that the StyleMe project is still open. Change the Callout used on a Text Caption. Confidence Check 1. Move the Text Caption up and to the left a bit until the position is similar to the image below. Go through the remaining slides and apply the third Callout to the rest of the captions. Position drag each of the captions on the slides where you think appropriate. Each slide has a unique Timeline. You can use the Timeline to control the timing of any slide object.
For instance, using the Timeline, you can force the captions to appear on the slide at the same time, or you can force one caption to appear as another goes away. The objects on a project slide are displayed as stacked bars on the left side of the Timeline. The Header at the top of the Timeline indicates time in seconds and parts of seconds. The Playhead shows the point in time in which the slide is being viewed. Display the Timeline. Use the Timeline to extend the slide duration to eight seconds.
Extend slide timing using the slide Properties. Use the Timeline to extend the display time for a Text Caption. Use the Timeline to change the timing for the mouse. Still working in the TimeMe project, change the Slide Duration for slide 1 to 5. Preview the first five slides. The Text Caption on slide 1 should play for four seconds.
While on slide 2, notice that it takes too much time for the click to actually occur—the timing needs work. Close the preview and go to slide 2. On the Timeline, change the Slide Duration to 0. Starting with slide 1, preview the Next 5 Slides. When you get to slide 2, the timing of the mouse click should be better. The timing between slides and objects should be smooth. When finished, close the preview, save, and close the project. I timed the Text Captions so that each one plays for five seconds and appears on the slide one after the other.
Disable Calculate Caption Timing. With the option selected, Captivate automatically calculates how long a caption stays on a slide based on the number of characters in the caption. I always disable Calculate Caption Timing. On slide 1, notice that there are typos in the Text Captions from misspelled words to double words.
Spell check the project. The first word that is flagged as Not In Dictionary is the word foolders. It should be replaced with the word folders. Ensure that the SpellMeAlignMe project is still open. Hide an object. One of the captions is in the way. Rather than drag it out of the way, only to have to drag it back, it is more efficient to temporarily hide it. With the top-most caption hidden, you can easily see the three remaining captions.
Even though the caption is hidden from view, it will still preview and publish. Select multiple captions. Left-align the selected captions. In addition, the vertical space between the selected captions is evenly spaced. As slide 1 plays, notice that the timing of the Text Captions is pretty good. Sure you do! Close the preview and return to slide 1.
Select all three of the visible Text Captions on slide 1 the first Text Caption should still be hidden. On the Timeline, notice that the selected objects have stretched to the end of the slide.
Notice that after the first Text Caption goes away, the remaining captions show for the rest of the slide. Show the hidden Caption. If you export the captions to Word, any team member can open the exported document with Word and make editorial changes. Those changes can be imported into Captivate—something I call Round Tripping. You can use this round trip work-flow to create multiple-language versions of your project without having to rerecord or re-create the project.
All you have to do is send the exported captions to a translator and have the caption text translated into another language. You would then import the translated captions back into your project.
Export the project captions. You are notified when the captions have been exported. The slide ID identifies to which slide your edited captions go. The Item ID identifies which caption goes with which caption data. Update the Word content. Return to the Captivate project. Import the edited caption into the Captivate project. Review the updated caption. How awesome is that? Save your work and close the project. If you do include the Mouse pointer, you can control the speed of the mouse, its exact starting and ending slide position, include visual Mouse clicks, and enable a click sound to further enhance the learner experience.
Guided Activity Control Mouse Effects 1. As the Mouse moves from slide to slide, notice that there is no visual indicator that a click is occurring, and no sound to accompany the click. Add a click sound to the Mouse. Add a visual Mouse click to the Mouse pointer on slide 4. Go to slide 3 and preview the next five slides.
Add a visual Mouse click and Mouse click sound to the Mouse pointer on slides 5, 6, and 8. Use the Timing Inspector to change the Transition for slide 2 to Wipe. As the lesson plays, pay particular attention to the Wipe transition you added that softens the abrupt jump between slides 1 and 2.
In addition, notice the visual Mouse clicks and sounds you added. When the preview is finished, close the preview. Captivate includes the ability to easily change the pointer path without having to re-record the lesson.
After you record a Demonstration you learned how on page 47 that includes the Mouse cursor, you can change the way the Mouse pointer looks on a single Captivate slide or throughout the project. The pointer can be changed to a variety of icons, such as a hand, a vertical resize pointer, or a drag pointer. If you are not happy with the pointer icons that come with Captivate, you can select any system pointer or existing CUR cursor file on your hard drive or network as the pointer image.
Guided Activity Edit a Mouse Path 1. Hide a slide object. To Show an item, click the red X, and it returns to the shape of a circle. Edit the pointer path. In that instance, Captivate creates a screen capture, and your Mouse is shown in the wrong part of the screen.
How slick is that? Re-record a lesson? Still on slide 3, show the text caption that you hid a moment ago.
Go to slide 4. You can get a better look at the problem by switching between slides 3 and 4, and you see the pointer jump between the two slides. Hold on for a bit of magic as you tell the pointer on slide 4 to match the position of the pointer on slide 3.
Align the slide position of the Mouse pointer with the previous slide. Without this wonderful feature, you would have been forced to drag the pointer on slide 4 a bit at a time, and then constantly switch between slides 3 and 4 to ensure that the alignment is perfect. The Align to feature makes quick work of the process.
Change the Mouse pointer type. This change affects only the pointer on slide 9. Note: If you wanted to use this pointer type on all of the pointers in the current project, you could right-click the pointer on the slide and choose Use the current mouse pointer for all slides. They are particularly helpful if a slide is cluttered or visually distracting. Like most objects in Captivate, you can control the appearance of Highlight Boxes via Object Styles, and control the length of time they are onscreen via the Timeline or the Timing Inspector.
Guided Activity Clone an Object Style 1. Ensure that the PointerPathMe project is still open. Clone an existing style. You can now give the duplicate any name you like and then edit its attributes. Insert a Highlight Box. Apply a different style to the new Highlight Box.
If you are unhappy with the appearance of the object, you can at any time return to the Object Style Manager, select the style, and edit it. Resize and reposition the Highlight Box.
Review object timing on the Timeline. On the Timeline, notice that the Text Caption and Highlight Box are both set to appear right away and play for three seconds. After that, the Mouse appears. Preview a single slide. Then the Mouse does its thing. However, the timing for the caption is a bit off. The reason? Update and then save changes to an existing style. The plus sign indicates changes have been made to the selected caption that do not match the attributes of the style.
Play the slide. Now the timing and effects for both the Highlight Box and Text Caption match. Save the project. Guided Activity Insert an Image Button 1.
Set Image buttons as the default button style. Select an image for the image button. Insert the image button onto a slide. For instance, you can select Continue. With this Action selected, the slide continues to play the remaining time on the Timeline before the learner is taken to the next slide.
Alternatively, you can elect to jump the learner to a specific slide in the project. Or you can elect to have the button play a sound. Resize and reposition the button similar to the picture below. Preview the Next 5 slides. As the first slide plays, notice that the action stops too soon—not all of the slide objects have had a chance to appear. You will fix that problem next. Edit the Properties of the button to show a Hand Cursor. Preview the First 5 slides.
After slide 1 appears, notice that all of the slide elements show up on the slide, and then the lesson stops—waiting for you to click the button. Position your Mouse pointer over the button and notice that your Mouse pointer changes to a hand Mouse cursor—thanks to the Hand Cursor option you selected.
Click the button to jump to the next slide in the lesson. Close the preview, and then save and close the project. Once an image has been imported into a project, you can resize it, crop it, and apply multiple effects to it. Once in the Library, items can quickly be added to any slide. The project is loaded with images, audio, and videos. Close the project do not save if prompted.
Of course, most of the images are missing Insert an image onto slide 2. Drag the image a few inches to the left on the slide. Insert another image. Position the two images side by side similar to what is shown below. Guided Activity Import Images into the Library 1. Show the Library. The assets listed in the Library are currently being used throughout the project.
Import images into the Library. You can confirm the image usage via the Use Count column. Notice that the two newly-imported images have a zero to the right of each image name. Add a Library asset to a slide. Move the image a bit to the left to make room for a fourth and final image.
Add another Library asset to a slide. Manually resize an image. Reset an image size. I often receive questions as to the value of the Reset To Original Size button. Many people believe that it would be just as easy to Undo the image resize as an alternative to clicking the Reset To Original Size button.
However, the Undo command is valuable only as long as the project is open. The Reset To Original Size button always works. Use the Properties Inspector to change the size of an image. With Constrain proportions selected, the height of the image changes proportionally when you change the width.
Specify a specific slide position for the image. Certainly you could select each image in turn and change its size. But check out this efficient little trick: 1.
With the resized and repositioned Warehouse Safety image on slide 2 still selected, press [shift] on your keyboard and select each of the remaining three images. Note: The selection order is critical. The Warehouse Safety image was already selected. As you selected each of the remaining images, the color of their selection handles is different than those found on the Warehouse Safety image.
Notice that the warehouse image has lighter resizing handles than the other selected images. The lighter resizing handles visually indicate to you that the selected image is the anchor. This presentation will be an overview of the different methods in the planning, producing, publishing and promoting of hybrid podcasts with instructions on the building of a compliant podcast. Text-based documents include PDF , Google docs, and blogs.
Video Tutorials. Video-based online courses are some of the most popular types of content that are both easy to follow and captivating. That was my massive learning curve over the last few months of how to create a course where people could actually… which was more interactive than just a video and PDF or something underneath it. This could be a checklist, a handout, an ebook, a PDF with important information relating to the course or the subject you are teaching.
If you are promoting your course, the headline needs to be captivating and be able to describe what it entails presenting its full value.
Wink — great for creating tutorials. Online PDF -Converter. Elearning modules — All of the modules you have created in Captivate , Articulate, or any other elearning authoring tool can be used in an online course. Last week, we looked at the building blocks of technology-enabled learning , from elements like learning objectives that are common across all training formats to those that are specific to digital formats, like content authoring tools.
Captivate and Storyline are particularly suited to adapting existing PowerPoint content. With features such as screen recording, GIFs, screenshots, it allows you to produce clear and easy-to-follow explanations and tutorials on how to use different programs. Thus, the complete book and individual chapters will be available in paper format for a fee and in PDF format for free.
I have theorized see my Interaction Equivalency Theory that we can effectively substitute student-content interaction for student-teacher interaction and that is what is being done in many xMOOCs as video replaces real time lectures and tutorials. All self-service now - Articulate v successful as have 'eLearning Heroes' so can go through and figure out by posting questions so have tutorials etc.
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