Captivate 6 Screens Blurry after Rescaling Project

Just today we started a project with a ton of software demos. We set up the right monitor to 1024 x 768 to capture to recordings and screen captures.

I designed to interface at 1400 x 900 to allow the the captures to be inserted into the project without the need to scale or to capture a portion of the screen. Normally we would have navigation and instructions on the left side of the interface, but the customer wanted a top/bottom interface this time.

We publish scalable which works very well. We also publish to 100% with zero compression.

If we want to scale down (1024 x 658 for example) we change the swf size in the html output. That way we still have to original resolution of the Captivate file. Granted it would be optimal to actually resize before output, but we the users don't have a bandwidth issue.

Scaling down is always a better option as opposed to scaling up.

Some loss of resolution clarity is a natural consequence of changing the scale.

My recommendation is to ONLY capture screens at exactly 100% of the size you intend to publish them.  Then they will remain as clear and crisp as possible.