An Adobe Captivate project is a set of slides that are played in a desired sequence as a movie. Start creating an Adobe Captivate project using one of the following options on the Welcome screen:
- Software Simulation
- Record events in an application or a screen area on your computer screen using Adobe Captivate. A series of screenshots is captured and placed sequentially in separate slides. A mouse, keyboard, or system event is the usual trigger for a new slide. During recording, use the application or website you want to demonstrate as you would normally—by moving the mouse, using the keyboard, and navigating through menus.
- Video Demo
- You can start with recording a video demonstration, which can be published directly as an MP4 file. You can also upload the video with a single click to YouTube or share over social media, such as, Twitter and Facebook. Adobe Captivate also lets you edit the video to enhance it with effects and add audio, PIP videos, and other objects. For more information, see Creating video projects.
- Blank Project
- You can start from a blank project with the selected project dimensions. You could add Adobe Captivate objects, import Microsoft PowerPoint presentations, images, audio, video, and animations, or even record a software demonstration or simulation. For more information, see Create a project starting with blank slides.
- From Microsoft PowerPoint
- You can import an entire PowerPoint presentation, or only selected slides, into an Adobe Captivate project. You can later edit the PowerPoint presentations from within Adobe Captivate. For more information, see Microsoft PowerPoint.
- Image Slide Show
- Import a set of images to create an image slideshow. For more information, see Create a project from images.
- Project Template
- When working on similar projects or modules within a larger project, you could create projects from templates. Project templates ensure consistency and improve the efficiency of people working in a collaborative setup. For more information, see Create project templates.
- From Template
- Choose a predefined template for your project.
- Aggregator Project
- Combine multiple SWFs into a single project using the Aggregator. The Aggregator project can then be published as a single SWF, or as a Windows or Mac executable. For more information, see Combining multiple SWF files with aggregator
You can add voice-over during recording, or at the editing stage.
Edit content on the slides.
Add Adobe Captivate objects such as text captions, buttons, text entry boxes, rollover captions, rollover slidelets, highlight boxes and mouse pointers to the project. Also, add effects to these objects.
Add different media files, such as images, audio, video, and animations in multiple formats.
Change the display time of slides and objects.
Change the order of slides and objects.
Add different kinds of slides, such as PowerPoint slides, image slides, and slides from other Adobe Captivate projects to the project
Add quizzes to your project by adding question slides of different types, including multiple choice, matching, fill in the blanks and image hot-spots. Randomize the questions to provide an entirely new set of questions to the learners every time they take the course.
Add narration to the project, either by recording audio or by converting text to speech.
To get feedback on the edited file, send it out to one or more reviewers. Reviewers can comment on the SWFs while playing them in the Adobe Captivate Reviewer, an Adobe AIR application. The comments are automatically imported into the project and displayed on the timeline, and in the SWF Commenting panel.
You can make the required changes to the project and publish it in multiple formats, including SWF and PDF files. You can use the LMS settings in Adobe Captivate to publish an LMS-ready file.
You can enhance the potential of Adobe Captivate by using it with other software such as Adobe® Flash®, Microsoft® PowerPoint®, RoboScreen Capture®, and Acrobat Connect®.
