Once you add an element to the timeline, you can lengthen, shorten, and reposition it at will, enabling extreme precision, but count on spending lots of time tinkering with the automatically captured elements to get their timing right. To these, you can also add Text Entry boxes, clickable buttons, animations and text animations. On the other hand, when compared to Camtasia, Captivate captures much more text and interactive elements. For example, when giving a high-level tour of a program interface, say identifying and describing the function of the main windows, you’ll have to work harder to capture the mouse movements that support your narration. To a degree, you can make up for this by clicking the interface to tell Captivate to remember the mouse motion, but this doesn’t capture all mouse movements, a potentially significant deficit. However, it also means that if you circle an item with your cursor, say to highlight an interface element, Captivate doesn’t capture it. This means there are no shakes or indecision in the motion from click to click, and if you delete or rearrange slides from a presentation, Captivate will edit the start and end points of your mouse movements to smooth out the deletion. As shown in Figure 3, you can collect and report data regarding the viewer’s responses, sending the information back to a SCORM-compliant learning management system (LMS).įigure 3 (below): Captivate lets you test user performance during the simulation for tracking in a SCORM-compliant LMS.īack in Figure 2, the top timeline entry contains the mouse movement, which, as you can see, is vector-based. Next is the Click box, which lets you force the viewer to click before proceeding, converting the viewer from passive to active, with all the benefits in attention and retention. Above that is the Text caption, "Select the Final_dv.avi item," which tells the viewer what to do to load the file. This box is also customizable in size and appearance. As with all captured text, you can customize the text font, size, color, and other attributes during editing.įigure 2 (below): The timeline above the slide illustrates the range of content that Captivate can capture.Ībove that is the Highlight box, or the translucent box Captivate places over the file Final_dv.avi on the bottom right, which tells the user where to click. Of course, this would only display when the user hovers over the button to simulate normal program operation. In Figure 2, for example, Captivate shows the tool tip Squeeze displays when a mouse hovers over the My Recent Documents icon in the File Open screen ("Shows recently opened files and folders"). Above that is the Rollover Area, a feature that lets you duplicate all tool tips contained in the original screen. On the bottom of the Timeline is Slide 2, or the actual captured Squeeze screen. Review: Adobe Captivate and TechSmith Camtasia Studio
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