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USING ADOBE CAPTIVATE 5
Recording Projects
Last updated 4/22/2010
Select Edit > Preferences (Windows) or Adobe Captivate > Preferences (Mac OS). In the Preferences dialog box, select
Defaults from the Recording menu. Change the styles for the objects as required.
To create a new object style, click Create New Style and create a new style in the Object Style Manager.
More Help topics
“Text captions” on page 63
“Highlight boxes” on page 75
Recording tips
The following tips and tricks can help you create Adobe Captivate projects quickly and easily, while also giving you
professional, high-quality results:
Use automatic recording as far as possible Even for projects that need a few manually generated screenshots, consider
automatic recording. Set the autorecord option, but press Print Screen whenever you want to take an extra screenshot.
This method is effective if you are recording a website that contains many pop-ups, frames, and special effects. Adobe
Captivate plays a camera shutter sound each time a screenshot is automatically captured. To generate a screenshot at
a place where you do not hear the sound, press Print Screen to manually take a screenshot.
For example, if you are recording Microsoft Internet Explorer, there can be dynamic HTML or Flash menus that
appear only when the mouse rolls over them. Adobe Captivate does not automatically capture the change that occurs
on mouse rollover. Press Print Screen to manually capture the change.
Go slowly when recording, particularly when recording websites in Internet Explorer Perform actions more slowly
than you would normally during recording. It is especially important to go slowly when capturing actions on a website
in Internet Explorer. If you are manually recording, ensure that each web page is loaded before capturing a screenshot.
Wait for the camera shutter sound During autorecording, wait for the shutter sound before performing another
action.
If you are manually recording, Adobe Captivate captures screenshots each time you press a designated key or key
combination. The default capture key is the Print Screen key. Each time you want to capture a screenshot, press the
Print Screen key; you'll hear the camera shutter sound.
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