Page 1 of 11 In this, the concluding installment from the Captivate Visual QuickStart, we deal with adding some "jazz" to your Captivate movie. I will show you how to add audio to a movie, change the pointers used by the mouse and how 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 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.
You can create background audio for your movie. When you add a background audio track, the sound will play while the slides of your movie are shown. Background audio can be music, sound effects, or virtually any kind of sound you can import or record. Just keep in mind that Captivate can read only .WAV and MP3 files. You'll have to convert AIFF, WMA, and other audio formats to one of these two prior to placing them into your Captivate movie.
You can also use background audio together with individual slide audio for a truly professional effect. This is accomplished by lowering the volume of a background audio track when a slide with audio assigned plays. For example, you can import a music file and have it play while the movie plays. When the movie reaches a slide where there is a voice over narration, the background music track's volume will be lowered while the narration plays.
Audio, if used properly, makes the viewer's experience with your work a positive one. The problem with audio, though, is the inevitable tradeoff a developer must make between quality and size. The better the sound quality, the higher the file size, and vice versa.
Captivate can help you with this tradeoff, because it enables you to control the way a sound is recorded based upon your input and output needs.
There are two methods of recording background audio in Captivate:
Captivate also contains a handy little feature that enables you to write the voiceover narration script used for each slide. This section covers only how to capture a voiceover narration.
Tip: Captivate ships with a number of prerecorded background sound loops and files in the MP3 format. You can find them in your Program Files/Macromedia/Captivate/Gallery/Sound folder.
Tip: The Fade values apply when the movie starts and when the movie finishes. They are not related to the duration of a slide.
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Keywords
Captivate, movies, slide shows, controller, custom controller, slides, Captivate Templates, mouse movement, pointer, playback, blank movies
