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Last updated 9/28/2011
Chapter 3: Creating Projects
An Adobe Captivate project is a set of slides that are played in a desired sequence as a movie. Start creating an Adobe
Captivate project using one of the following options on the Welcome screen:
From Template Choose a predefined template for your project.
Software Simulation Record events in an application or a screen area on your computer screen using Adobe Captivate.
A series of screenshots is captured and placed sequentially in separate slides. A mouse, keyboard, or system event is
the usual trigger for a new slide. During recording, use the application or website you want to demonstrate as you
would normally—by moving the mouse, using the keyboard, and navigating through menus.
Blank Project You can start from a blank project with the selected project dimensions. You could add Adobe
Captivate objects, import Microsoft PowerPoint presentations, images, audio, video, and animations, or even record
a software demonstration or simulation. For more information, see
“Create a project starting with blank slides” on
page 27.
Microsoft PowerPoint Slides You can import an entire PowerPoint presentation, or only selected slides, into an Adobe
Captivate project. You can later edit the PowerPoint presentations from within Adobe Captivate. For more
information, see
“Microsoft PowerPoint” on page 232.
Image Slide Show Import a set of images to create an image slideshow. For more information, see “Create a project
from images” on page 27.
Project Template When working on similar projects or modules within a larger project, you could create projects from
templates. Project templates ensure consistency and improve the efficiency of people working in a collaborative setup.
For more information, see
“Create project templates” on page 28.
Aggregator Project Combine multiple SWFs into a single project using the Aggregator. The Aggregator project can
then be published as a single SWF, or as a Windows or Mac executable. For more information, see
“Combining
multiple SWF files with aggregator” on page 202
Mobile Projects (only if Adobe eLearning Suite is installed) Create an Adobe Captivate project for mobile devices by
selecting the target mobile device in Adobe Device Central. Use the screen resolution of the device as the dimensions
for your project. Use Adobe Device Central to test the project on the target device.
You can add voice-over during recording, or at the editing stage.
After you create a project, you can edit it by doing the following:
• Edit content on the slides.
• Add Adobe Captivate objects such as text captions, buttons, text entry boxes, rollover captions, rollover slidelets,
highlight boxes and mouse pointers to the project. Also, add effects to these objects.
• Add different media files, such as images, audio, video, and animations in multiple formats.
• Change the display times of slides and objects.
• Change the order of slides and objects.
• Add different kinds of slides, such as PowerPoint slides, image slides, and slides from other Adobe Captivate
projects to the project
• Add quizzes to your project by adding question slides of different types, including multiple choice, matching, fill in
the blanks and image hot-spots. Randomize the questions to provide an entirely new set of questions to the learners
every time they take the course.