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USING ADOBE CAPTIVATE 5
Adding and Managing Objects
Last updated 4/22/2010
2 Select the type of object in the Search In drop-down list.
3 Select the style in the Style drop-down list.
4 Do either of the following:
• To find the objects that use the specified style one after the other, click Find Next.
• To find all the objects in the project that use the specified style, click Find All. The search results are grouped
slide-wise in the Find And Replace panel.
Object effects
Object effects help you quickly draw users' attention to the required objects on a slide. To see the effects that you can
apply to objects, select an object, go to Window > Effects, and click .
You can create effects in Adobe Flash and use them in Adobe Captivate. For more information, see
Showing and hiding the Effects panel
Go to Windows menu, and then click Effects.
Options on the Effects panel
Effect Properties Properties of an effect that is applied to an object.
Live Preview Mode Shows how the object effect looks when the video is played.
Animation Trigger The trigger for a specific object effect. The triggers can be time-based or event-based. Object effects
with the time-based trigger are applied after the previous object is played. Object effects with event-based triggers are
applied when specific events occur, such as, a click of a button or an entry to a specific slide.
For a specific object, you can apply effects with both time-based and event-based triggers. Object effects with event-
based triggers take precedence over effects with time-based triggers.
Creating event-based animation triggers
1 Select the object that is the base for the event. For example, to apply an effect to an object after a specific slide begins,
select the slide.
2 In the Actions panel, select Animate Object in the On Enter or On Success drop-down lists.
3 In the Object Name drop-down list, select the object to which you want to apply an effect.
An event-based animation trigger for the selected object is created and listed in the Effects panel. You can choose the
event-based trigger while applying an effect to this object.
Applying effects to objects
1 Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) the object and then select Effects.
2 In the Animation Trigger drop-down list, select a trigger for the effect. By default, the time-based trigger is selected.
To apply the object effect when a specific event occurs, create an event-based trigger, and then select it in the Effects
panel.
3 Click and select the effect to apply to the object. To use an already saved effect, click Browse and locate the XML
file that corresponds to the effect.
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