everything on one slide

[ContentManagement]

My coworker and I are using captivate 3.0. When I recorded, the actions are distributed on multiple slides. However her recording is displayed on one slide without mouse movement as I have. Do you know the reason? I compare our recording settings and can''t find differences. Thanks!

[Captiv8r]

Hi there

When you look at the film strip in her editor, do you see a large camcorder icon?

If so, hers has been recorded using Full Motion capture while yours was recorded using the traditional capture that grabs each screen and makes it a separate slide.

Cheers... Rick

[ContentManagement]

Hi Rick,

Thanks for your quick reply! I just reproduced her issue with my Captive 3.0. You are totally right!!

[Captiv8r]

Hello again

I'm pleased to have helped you solve the mystery.

Just as an FYI, the screen by screen method is vastly superior to the Full Motion method for a host of different reasons.

Cheers... Rick

[ContentManagement]

Hi Rick,

Thanks for reminding me. I remember my another coworker has red screen issue and I found the suggestion is not use Full Motion mode. I checked his recording today and found it is recorded in Full Motion mode. I am wondering when to use Full Motion mode? Since I didn't see any benefit of it. It has no capability to edit the video as traditional screen capture.

[Captiv8r]

Hi again

Quite Frankly I think Full Motion mode was added in order to compete with products such as Camtasia Studio.

Even in slide-by-slide recording mode you have a possibility of entering Full Motion capture by using any clicks and drags.

* Dragging a Window from one place to another
* Selecting across some text
* Dragging the thumb or "elevator" of a scroll bar

Captivate will then co-mingle these brief bits of full motion with the slide-by-slide.

As you have said, it's not very flexible. What if you need to edit some sensitive information out? Perhaps a client account number? Stupid simple in slide-by-slide and next to impossible in Full Motion.

Cheers... Rick

[ContentManagement]

Thank you, Rick! I am glad that we chose Captivate. I found that this software is very easy to use. I did lots of video edits after the video is done. Thanks again! You have a good day!