Tough question. Software may or may not be compliant with 800
X 600 sizeing. So you may lose buttons or similar features if the
programmer did not comply with an 800 X 600 minimum.
If you use Captivate 4 you have an opton for the new TOC
feature and that makes everything wider than 800 X 600
Recording larger and scaling down will cause some distortion,
but you can play around with your resolutoin from Standard to
Optimized and you may find that 8 bit is too grainy in any
resolution with the Captivate quality settings.
I usually record at 800 X 600 for internet speed.
If you are serving this up in a LMS package, then the LMS
itself will take up some room.
I do some recording at 1024 X 768 and this is a MAX that is a
bit too big in most cases because of the Tray area at the bottom of
Windows. Lots of people have IE6 or IE7 and a list of their
favorite links on the left. That means that your 1024 X 768
presentation loses the left side to the Favorites bar and it seems
that many people don't know to run this stuff at full screen (just
press F11 in IE).
So somewhere between 800 X 600 and 1024 X 768 is the way to
go.
You can size your application to fit inside the red Adobe
rectangle prior to recording. You should try to be consistent in
size as you do your demo presentations.
If possible, try 800 X 600 first and then you can also try
something that is 90% of 1024 X 768 and see if that works better.
Another issue is 4:3 screens and 16:9 screens. As a business
user, I am not a huge fan of 16:9 laptops, but it is fine on a 21"
desktop monitor. You might want to account for 16:9 screens in your
dimensions.
Lets not forget about bandwidth. If it is playing on a
corporate network, then you are fine. Lots of folks have high-speed
access. I have not had any problems at 1024 X 768 (or shall I say
90% of that).
Hope this helps a bit.
Joe C.
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