Hi zooski and welcome to our community
When you DE-selected "Enable Auto Recording", the recording
onus was put more on your shoulders. First off, I need to point out
that Camtasia Studio (a neat little product and loosely a Captivate
competitor) and Captivate take two entirely different approaches to
recording. CS records everything as one large video in real time.
Captivate is "event driven". It takes screen shots when it senses
an event has occurred. In auto recording mode anyway.
Once you shift into manual recording mode (what you did by
De-selecting the auto recording option) you need to press the Print
Screen key (assuming you haven't changed it, which you can do) to
force Captivate to take a screen shot. Note that you can also force
additional screen shots even while auto recording by pressing this
key.
Hopefully this helps answer your question. If not, post back
and explain further.
Sincerely... Rick