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Adobe Captivate Training:
Adobe Captivate 5.5 Advanced Training
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Who is the advanced Captivate training for?
This course enables intermediate and experienced users of Adobe Captivate 5.5 to further develop their skills and to Captivate's advanced features with confidence. Familiarity with the basic features of Adobe Captivate 5 is a prerequisite.
How will I benefit from this advanced Captivate training?
After taking the course, you will be equipped to work more efficiently and effectively, and to maximise the benefits of this powerful eLearning tool. The course provides many advanced guidelines for creating software demonstrations, interactive tutorials, and scenario-based training. For onsite delivery, the curriculum can be focused on specific topics and customized to your precise objectives.
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Captivate advanced course duration
One day
How is this advanced Captivate training delivered?
This course is delivered in either of the following two ways:
- Hands-on classroom training for groups of up to ten students at your own place of work
- Web-based coaching as a series of 90-minute instructor-led interactive sessions
Captivate training course outline
- manual versus automatic recording
- issues to be aware of when doing manual recording with Captivate 5
- recording multiple modes
- recording and editing Full Motion Recording (FMR) projects
- panning: when to use it
- creating projects from templates
- issues to consider
- tips for maximising impact within a small screen
- how to use panning
- editing and replacing Library items
- power tips, tricks, and shortcuts
- tips for successful audio and maximising information retention
- slide- and object-level audio, and when you should use each
- using Captivate's text-to-speech feature
- creating closed captions
- adding video from a range of formats
- spanning video across multiple slides
- synchronising video with slide objects
Variables and advanced actions
- understanding system and user-defined variables
- assigning user input to variables
- assigning multiple actions to an event
- reasons for using advanced actions
- using advanced actions to show and hide slide objects
- scripting standard actions and conditional actions
- what widgets are, and how to use them
- Using the supplied widgets
Using the Adobe Captivate Reviewer
- creating reviews
- reviewing projects
- importing and processing review comments
- Applying effects to objects
- Using advanced actions to apply effects
Working with project templates
- what to include in project templates
- tips for creating project templates
- working with placeholders
Introducing your trainer
Matthew Ellison has over 25 years of experience as an eLearning professional in the software industry, and is a qualified teacher (PGCE) and Certified Technical Trainer. He has worked with Captivate since the very first version in 2002, which was then called RoboDemo.
Matthew is an Adobe Certified Instructor and an Adobe Certified Expert for Captivate, and is well known around the world for his authoritative and entertaining presentations. He is also is a participant in Adobe's pre-release program for the next version of Captivate, and was invited to present an extended workshop Introduction to Captivate at the 2009 WritersUA Conference in Seattle, WA.
