My biggest complaint with version 5 is that the round-tripping doesn’t work if you already own Photoshop, Soundbooth, and Flash (from the CS5 Master Collection, for example). Photoshop files can be imported with layer support, audio files can be edited with Soundbooth (or directly in Captivate), and Flash-created SWF files can be imported.
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Other programs that allow round-tripping include Photoshop, Soundbooth, and Flash, but unfortunately, you have to have the full eLearning Suite to round-trip with these programs (all of these programs are included in the eLearning Suite). Speaking of PowerPoint, PowerPoint presentations can be imported into Captivate with almost all of the PowerPoint animation intact, plus you can link to the PowerPoint file so edits in PowerPoint can be updated back in Captivate.
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The same principle applies for Object Styles-these styles are for the individual objects on the slides and update globally. The Master Slide feature allows the creating of masters that can be applied to individual slides as required when the masters are updated, the individual slides update, too. Other new features include Master Slides and Object Styles-the former is similar to PowerPoint Master Slides and the latter is similar to InDesign Object Styles. Once you get used to the new interface, it’s much more productive than in older versions. The slides can then be customized with text captions, buttons, click boxes, rollover captions, and more.Ĭaptivate 5 sports a new Adobe interface with new panel workspaces. When you simply click the mouse, Captivate creates screen captures then adds mouse animations and captions of course, it can do full motion recording (FMR) either automatically when required or be set to FMR all the time. Whether you’re upgrading a Windows version or purchasing the first Macintosh version, Captivate is a powerful program that does more than just record a video of your onscreen actions.
Although Captivate has been around for a quite some time, this is the first version available for both Macintosh and Windows. Adobe Captivate is a program that allows the creation of online demonstrations and interactive assessments, usually of other software programs, but it can be used for presentations, too.