Adobe Captivate 4: The Definitive Guide: The Definitive Guide

by Brenda Huettner

Overview

Adobe Captivate 4: The Definitive Guide, the follow-up to Wordware's popular Adobe Captivate 3: The Definitive Guide, steps you through all the procedures needed to create Flash movies based on any software on your desktop. You'll learn how to create Flash movies, edit individual screens, add and edit sound, even add interactivity (with or without grading) for complete customization. The expanded e-learning chapter in this edition discusses a variety of ways to build quizzing functions with individual questions and question pools. A chapter on branching shows how to move slide elements on a visual display, and how to create paths through a movie that give each viewer a unique experience. This book covers everything from getting the software installed and activated, manipulating the movie files, adding and editing audio, and building quizzes, all the way to delivery mechanisms of the final output and integrating your movies with other applications.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780763781378
Publisher:	Jones & Bartlett Learning
Publication date:	12/03/2009
Edition description:	1E
Pages:	464
Product dimensions:	7.30(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Brenda Huettner is a technical writer, author, speaker, and consultant with more than 20 years of experience in the technical communication field. She has written manuals, Help systems, procedures, proposals, and training materials for a variety of corporate clients, authored Macromedia Captivate: The Definitive Guide and co-authored RoboHelp for the Web and Managing Virtual Teams from Wordware Publishing, and is the publisher of Harry A. Franck's WWII narrative, Winter Journey through the Ninth. She is a Fellow of the Society for Technical Communication, a member of the IEEE Professional Communication Society, and a member of the Usability Professionals Association. Brenda is a regular presenter at conferences across the country where she speaks on documentation, management, and career issues.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Installing and Configuring Captivate
Chapter 2 Getting Ready to Make Movies
Chapter 3 Creating Your First Movie (Just the Basics!)
Chapter 4 Recording a Movie
Chapter 5 Creating Movies Without Recording
Chapter 6 Working with Slides
Chapter 7 Editing a Single Slide
Chapter 8 Defining What the User Hears: Adding Audio
Chapter 9 Defining What the User Does: Adding Interactivity
Chapter 10 Creating E-Learning Content
Chapter 11 Working with the Branching View
Chapter 12 Using Captivate Tools
Chapter 13 Refining the Movie
Chapter 14 Generating Captivate Output