Mastering Adobe Captivate 6 -- Table of Contents -- Mastering Adobe Captivate 6 -- Credits -- Foreword -- About the Author -- Acknowledgement -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the example code -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Getting Started with Captivate -- The three editions of Captivate -- The Captivate production process at a glance -- Touring the Captivate interface -- A first look at the Captivate interface -- Working with panels -- Adding and removing panels -- Moving panels around -- Creating a custom workspace -- Exploring the sample applications -- Experiencing the Encoder Demonstration -- Experiencing the Encoder Simulation -- Experiencing the Driving in Belgium sample application -- Experiencing the Encoder Video Demo -- Discussing the sample apps scenario -- Summary -- Meet the Community -- Dr Allen Partridge -- Bio -- Contact details -- My personal note -- 2. Capturing the Slides -- Choosing the right resolution for the project -- What exactly the problem is -- Resizing the project after the initial shooting -- Downsizing the application during the shooting -- Using the Panning feature of Captivate -- Using the new Scalable HTML content feature -- Conclusion -- Shooting the first movie -- Preparing the application to shoot -- Rehearsing the scenario -- Shooting the movie -- [Mac users only] - Enable access to assistive devices -- Preparing Captivate to shoot -- And... Action! -- Previewing the rushes -- Exploring the recording preferences -- Shooting the other versions of the project -- The Full Motion Recording.

The inner working of the Captivate capture engine -- The Video Demo -- Automatic and Manual Panning -- Rescaling a project -- Summary -- Meet the Community -- Anita Horsley -- Bio -- Contact details -- My personal note -- 3. Working with Standard Objects -- Preparing your work -- Working with the Properties panel -- Exploring the basic objects -- The Text Caption object -- Modifying the content of a Text Caption -- Creating new Text Captions -- Formatting a Text Caption -- Resizing and moving Text Captions -- Changing the Callout and the Caption type -- Character and paragraph formatting -- Working with Text Effects -- The Highlight Box object -- Working with the Mouse -- Understanding the Mouse movements -- Formatting the Mouse object -- Working with images -- Using the image editing tools -- Inserting a picture slide -- Extra credit: working with Characters -- Working with Smart Shapes -- Formatting a Smart Shape -- Using the Align toolbar -- Working with styles -- Managing styles with the Properties panel -- Resetting a style -- Creating new styles -- Modifying a style -- Applying styles automatically -- Extra credit -- Working with the Object Style manager -- Exporting a style -- Importing a style -- Creating a style in the Object Style Manager -- Extra credit -- Working with the Timeline -- Using the Timeline to select objects -- Hiding and locking objects with the Timeline -- Using the Timeline to change the stacking order of the objects -- Use the Timeline to set the timing of the objects. -- Extra credit -- Summary -- Meet the Community -- RJ Jacquez -- Bio -- Contact details -- My personal note -- 4. Working with Animations and Interactive Objects -- Preparing our work -- Discovering the animated objects -- Using the Text Animation -- Converting a typing object into a Text Animation -- Extra credit.

Inserting external animations in the project -- Working with the Zoom Area -- Inserting a video file -- Adding effects to objects -- Combining effects -- Extra credit -- Finishing touches -- Working with Buttons -- Discovering the Rollover objects -- Working with Rollover Captions -- Working with Rollover Smart Shapes -- Writing text into a Smart Shape -- Working with Rollover Smart Shapes -- Using the Align toolbar to adjust the size and the position of objects -- Working with Rollover Images -- Working with Rollover Slidelets -- Inserting and formatting a Rollover Slidelet -- Inserting objects in a Rollover Slidelet -- Working with the Library -- Reusing library items -- Importing objects from another library -- Deleting unused assets from the library -- Creating a Simulation -- Hiding the mouse -- Using Find and Replace -- Working with Click Boxes -- Working with Text Entry Boxes -- Fine tuning the Simulation -- Branching with Click Boxes -- Objects and animations in Video Demo projects -- Interactivity in Video Demo projects -- Standard objects in Video Demo projects -- Animations in Video Demo projects -- Using Pan and Zoom -- Adding Transitions in Video Demos -- Summary -- Meet the Community -- Dr Pooja Jaisingh -- Bio -- Contact info -- My personal note -- 5. Working with Audio -- Preparing our work -- Adding audio to objects -- Extra credit -- Adding background music to the entire project -- Adding audio to the slides -- Recording narration with Captivate -- Setting up the sound system -- Recording the narration -- Importing an external sound clip -- Editing a sound clip in Captivate -- Extra credit -- Using Text-to-Speech to generate narration -- Installing the Captivate Speech Agents -- Working with the Slide Notes panel -- Converting text to speech -- Using the Speech Management window -- Adding Closed Captions to the slides.

Viewing the Closed Captions -- Closed Captioning a video file -- Extra credit -- Summary -- Meet the Community -- Lieve Weymeis -- Bio -- Contact info -- My personal note -- 6. Final Changes and Publishing -- Preparing our work -- Final Changes -- Checking the spelling -- Start and End preferences -- Project metadata and accessibility -- Other project preferences -- Exporting the project preferences -- Working with the Skin Editor -- Customizing the Playback Controls -- Working with Borders -- Moving the Closed Captions outside of the slide -- Adding a Table of Contents -- Applying the same Skin to another project -- Extra credit -- Publishing -- Publishing to Flash -- Scalable HTML content -- Publishing to HTML5 -- Using the HTML5 Tracker -- Publishing the project in HTML5 -- Publishing to PDF -- Publishing as a standalone application -- Publishing as a video file -- Publishing to YouTube -- Publishing a Video Demo project -- Publishing to Word -- Extra credit -- Other publishing options -- Extra credit -- Summary -- Meet the Community -- Jim Leichliter -- Bio -- Contact details -- My personal note -- 7. Working with Quizzes -- Preparing our work -- Introducing the Quiz -- Creating Question Slides -- The Multiple Choice question -- The Short Answer question -- Adding the remaining Question Slides -- The Matching Question -- The True/False question -- The Fill-In-The-Blank question -- The Hotspot question -- The Sequence question -- Creating surveys with Likert questions -- Previewing the Quiz -- Creating a Pretest -- The Quiz Preferences -- Setting the passing score of a Quiz -- Creating Question Pools -- Creating a Question Pool -- Inserting questions in a Question Pool -- Inserting Random Question Slides in the main project -- Reporting scores to an LMS -- SCORM and AICC -- Enabling reporting in Captivate -- At interaction level.

Reporting Click Boxes and Text Entry Boxes -- At project level -- Creating a SCORM manifest -- Publishing an eLearning-enabled project -- Integrating the SCORM package in the LMS -- Using Acrobat.com as an alternate reporting method -- Configuring the Captivate project for Acrobat.com reporting -- Uploading the files to Acrobat.com -- Taking the Quiz -- Using the Adobe Captivate Quiz Result Analyzer -- Summary -- Meet the Community -- Rick Zanotti -- Bio -- Contact details -- My personal note -- 8. Templates, Master Slides, and Themes -- Preparing our work -- Experimenting with Themes -- The Elements of a Theme -- The Master Slides -- The Styles -- The Skin -- Creating a Theme -- Customizing the Master Slides of the Theme -- Customizing the Main Master Slide -- Adding a Master Slide to the Theme -- Adding Placeholders to the Master Slides -- Applying the Master Slides to the slides of the project -- Modifying a Master Slide -- Adding Styles to the Theme -- Styling the Standard Objects -- Extra credit -- Styling the Question Slides -- Styling the Buttons -- Extra credit -- Adding a Skin to the Theme -- Working with Templates -- Creating a Template -- Adding Placeholder Slides -- Creating a new Captivate project from a Template -- Summary -- Meet the Community -- Rod Ward -- Bio -- Tristan Ward -- Bio -- Contact details -- My personal note -- 9. Using Captivate with Other Applications -- Preparing our work -- Captivate and PowerPoint -- Converting an existing presentation to Captivate -- Viewing the presentation in PowerPoint -- Creating a Captivate project from a PowerPoint application -- Round Tripping between Captivate and PowerPoint -- Updating a linked PowerPoint presentation -- Inserting a PowerPoint slide in a Captivate project -- Extra credit -- Importing a PowerPoint slide in an existing Captivate project.

Localizing a Captivate project using Microsoft Word.