Mastering Adobe Captivate 7
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Shooting the other versions of the project

For this second recording session, you will pursue the following objectives:

  • You will generate both the Demonstration and Simulation versions of the project in a single shooting session
  • At the end of the project, you will capture the yellowish bar showing the progression of the encoding process using a Full Motion Recording

Your first concern is to reset the stage by preforming the following steps:

  1. Reopen AME. When the application appears, make sure it looks like the screenshot in the Preparing the application to shoot section.
  2. Delete all the .flv files situated in the videos/MOV folder of the exercise files you downloaded from the Internet.
  3. Return to Captivate and close every open file, if needed.
  4. Navigate to the File | Record new Software Simulation menu item to create a new project. The main Captivate interface disappears and the red recording area is displayed.
  5. In the recording window, choose Application to record Adobe Media Encoder. The red recording area snaps to the Adobe Media Encoder window.
  6. Use a Custom Size value of 1024 x 768 pixels to shoot your application.
  7. In the recording modes section of the recording window, select all four recording modes (Demo, Assessment, Training, and Custom).
  8. Leave the other options at their current value.
  9. Make sure your recording window looks like the following screenshot:
    Shooting the other versions of the project
  10. When you are ready, click on the red Record button. After a short countdown, you'll be back in the recording mode.
  11. In Adobe Media Encoder, perform the actions as rehearsed earlier in this chapter. Behind the scenes, Captivate is recording!

    You should hear a camera shutter sound each time you click and a keystroke sound each time you use the keyboard. Notice that even though two applications are currently active, the mouse and the keyboard are interacting with AME, not with Captivate:

  12. Just before clicking on the Start Queue button (the Play icon), click on either the Print Screen (Windows) or cmd + F6 (Mac) buttons to take an extra screenshot manually.

    This extra screenshot is necessary to correctly capture the progression of the yellowish bar with a Full Motion Recording. A camera shutter sound lets you know that an extra screenshot has indeed been captured.

    Tip

    Mac users, remember that some Mac models require that you add the fn key to the mix. The shortcut to take an extra screenshot might therefore be cmd + fn + F6.

    You will now turn the Full Motion Recording on and click on the Start Queue button:

  13. Use either the F9 (Windows) or cmd + F9 (Mac) shortcut to turn the Full Motion Recording on.
  14. Click on the Start Queue button of AME to start the actual encoding of the video.
  15. When the encoding is finished, use either the F10 (Windows) or cmd + F10 (Mac) shortcut to stop Full Motion Recording.
  16. Finally, use the End key (Windows) or the cmd + enter shortcut (Mac) to stop the recording.

Captivate generates all the slides. When that process is over, Captivate has a nice surprise for you!

Tip

Alternate way to stop a Captivate recording

In addition to the keyboard shortcuts discussed previously, you can also use your mouse to stop a Captivate recording. On Windows, click on the Captivate icon situated in the taskbar at the bottom of the screen. On Mac, the same icon is situated in the notification area in the top-right corner of the screen.

Previewing the second rushes

The nice surprise is that Captivate has generated four versions of the same project. This is due to the four checkboxes that you selected at the end of the recording window just before pressing the Record button:

  • untitled_demo1.cptx was generated based on the Demo mode. Save it in your exercises folder as Chapter02/encoderDemo_1024.cptx.
  • untiteld_assessment1.cptx was generated based on the Assessment Simulation mode. Save it in your exercises folder as Chapter02/encoderAssessment_1024.cptx.
  • untiteld_training1.cptx was generated based on the Training Simulation mode. Save it in your exercises folder as Chapter02/encoderTraining_1024.cptx.
  • untiteld_custom.cptx was generated with the settings of your very own Custom mode. Save it in your exercises folder as Chapter02/encoderCustom_1024.cptx.

Once these files are saved, you will preview them one by one:

  1. Select the Chapter02/encoderDemo_1024.cptx file.
  2. Use the Preview icon to preview the entire project.

    Captivate generates the slides and opens the Preview pane.

    Tip

    If you did not succeed in producing great recordings, you can use the files situated in the Chapter02/final folder of the exercises.

    The Demo mode version of the project is very similar to the one you shot earlier in this chapter. The only major difference is the progression of the yellowish bar that has been correctly captured by Full Motion Recording:

  3. When the preview is finished, close the Preview pane.
  4. Select the Chapter02/encoderAssessment_1024.cptx file.
  5. Use the Preview icon to preview the entire project.

    As described in the Assessment Simulation recording mode, the mouse pointer and the Text Captions are not added. After a short while, the project pauses. If you don't do anything, nothing happens, as Captivate is waiting for you to click on the right spot. If you click on the right icon, the project moves on to the next slide and pauses again waiting for your second action. If you do not perform the right action, a red Failure Caption is displayed:

  6. When you complete the entire project, close the Preview pane.
  7. Return to the Chapter02/encoderTraining_1024.cptx file.
  8. Once again, use the Preview icon to preview the entire project.

    As expected, this version of the project is very similar to the previous one. The only difference is the orange Hint Caption that is displayed when the mouse rolls over the hit area of the Click Boxes or Text Entry Boxes. This Hint Caption provides some useful information on the action to be performed by the student:

  9. When you are through with the entire project, close the Preview pane.
  10. Go to the Chapter02/encoderCustom_1024.cptx file.
  11. Use the Preview icon one more time to preview the entire project.

Your Custom recording mode has added Text Captions, Click Boxes, and Text Entry Boxes to the slides, effectively providing an entirely new customized experience.

Of course, none of these four versions of the project are final in any way. There is a lot of work to be done before these projects can be published. That being said, the automatic recording modes of Captivate have successfully provided enough raw material of good quality to get you started. Remember, this is exactly what you should expect from the shooting step of the process.

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