Creating a Captivate Movie - Part 1 ![[Registration never required for free content]](/images/free.gif)
By: Tom Green on Wednesday, November 10, 2004
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Creating Captivate movies is much more than simply doing a screen capture and "adding stuff here and there". Whether it is demonstrating a software technique, a product demonstration, executing a quiz, or developing a tutorial, the key to success is that old business adage: Plan your work. Work your plan. ”
This article is an exerpt from Tom Green's "Captivate Visual QuickStart Guide". Published by peachPit Press it will be available in mid November. In Part 1, the first of three parts, we will focus on the movie creation process. The process starts with planning — which, in many respects, is the most time time-consuming aspect of creating a Captivate movie.
Part 2 will focus on using Captivate templates, how to change the movie properties and resize your Captivate movie.
Part 3 will cover adding some "jazz" to you Captivate movie. I will show you how to add audio to a movie, change the pointers used by the mouse and how to change mouse movement. I will also show you how to add a playback controller to a Captivate movie and create your own custom controller. Captivate can also be used to create slide shows and I'll show you how to do that as well as explain the importance of a movie containing no content.
This 3-part series is an excerpt from Tom Green's Captivate Visual QuickStart Guide. Published by peachPit Press it will be available in mid November.
