Adobe Captivate 6: The Essentials

Teach Yourself Adobe's Captivate 6 Fast With This Step-by-Step Workbook. If you are an instructional designer, technical writer or trainer, you have no doubt spent time attempting to perfect the art of teaching programs using fewer and fewer words. If you are in the business of educating, you know how difficult this job can be. These days, interactive lessons that can be viewed over the Internet or from a mobile device are all the rage. There are many programs that can be used to capture a computer's screen, mouse action and audio. Unfortunately, the resulting movies can be huge--a five minute lesson could easily gobble up nearly 100mb of storage space on a hard drive. Downloading a file that large will take a lot of time, even if a user has a fast Internet connection. Large file sizes are just part of the problem. The movies may not be cross-platform (they may not work on both Macs and PCs). Interactivity is a feature most of the "mouse capture" applications do not support. And there are few of these programs that allow images to be imported. In short, the technology for creating interactive lessons WAS bad. But not anymore. Using Adobe Captivate 6, you can capture screen actions on your computer and quickly turn them into highly interactive software simulations. This book includes, but is not limited to, lessons on recording screen actions, adding objects to slides (captions, images, buttons, click box and text entry boxes), using the Timeline, adding animation, adding interactivty, adding and editing audio, and publishing your lessons for the widest possible audience (including SWFs and HTML5).