Page 1 of 3 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.
In Part 1, I explained how to plan, capture and preview a Captivate movie. In this, Part 2, I will describe how to use templates, change the movie properties and resize your Captivate movie.
You can save movies as templates. The advantage to templates is they introduce consistency to your design efforts and are re-useable.
As in other applications, such as page layout or multimedia applications, templates also contain commonly used items such as logos. In Captivate, these items could include corporate identification, a common opening and closing frame, and even a common movie size. The advantage to you is a reduction in production time and a consistent look and feel that meets the corporate design standard.
Tip: Captivate templates have the .cpt extension, and all templates are saved to the Templates folder located in the Captivate application folder.
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Captivate, movies, slide shows, controller, custom controller, slides, Captivate Templates, mouse movement, pointer, playback, blank movies
