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Anandhipsg
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November 8, 2013
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Changing a portion of captured video

  • November 8, 2013
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Hi,

I am new to Adobe Captivate. I have been using some other video capturing tool for creating our product demos.

I want to know about one ponit which we come across frequently. Is it possible to edit only some portion of the captured slide? For example, I have captured a video for a client with their logo on the top left of the screen. In case some other client asks for a video for the same module, we can re-use the same video  with just changing the logo alone as per the second customer. I can edit the particular frame through Photoshop or PaintBrush and bring the edited frame back to my video. My other tool gives this flexibility.

Can this be achieved in Captivate?

Regards,

Anandhi Ghiri

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RodWard
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RodWardCommunity Expert
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November 8, 2013

If the screen capture is just a static graphic then yes you can do this with Captivate.

Any screen capture background is actually stored as an image in the Library of the project file.  You can right click these images and select Edit with... and choose your preferred graphics application (e.g. Photoshop).

However, while this is fairly easy to do with static screen captures, the same task is not quite as easy to pull off if you happen to be using some Full Motion Video capture in sections of your course.  These will end up as video files, not graphics, and changing part of the screen in that case is a whole different ballgame.

In the past when I have had to edit out only one portion of a number of slides I have been able to attach the slides to a Master Slide on which I placed the part of the image that needed to change.  I set Master Slide Objects to be on top so that these objects are then superimposed over the background.  If all slides in the project are affected, then you may be able to place the image section on the first slide where it is required and then set it's duration to Rest of Project. Configure it to be on top again.

So you do have several options with Captivate.

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AnandhipsgAuthor
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November 8, 2013

Thanks for the reply. I will try and revert in case of any further assistance.

Btw, I forgot to mention in my earlier post, that the change would be applicable to more than one slide, sometime continuously, and sometimes intermittent. Ex. I have captured a video which contains around 200 slides. I want to edit some portion in the slide number 4 and it should be retained till slide 10. Again the same change should be applicable from slide 25 - 200 slides.

In my other tool there is an option to specify whether the change should be specific to that indidivual frame or it should be continued till which frame. For my above example, after editing the 4th slide, i can specify 'apply changes till 10th slide'. and once again i do the editing for the 25th slide and specify 'apply changes till 200th slide'. This ensures smooth view of the video (without any jumps) as the positioning of the change will be retained across 4 - 10 and from 25 - 100.

Regards,

RodWard
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RodWardCommunity Expert
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November 8, 2013

Captivate has no option similar to this.  If the background of each slide differs because it is a different graphic then you would need to edit each slide.

There is one good extra trick that it offers and that is the ability to merge a graphic into the background graphic.  So for example you can place your new logo graphic over the top of where it should appear on one slide, then copy the graphic at that location, right click the graphic and choose Merge with Background from the context menu.  This will embed the graphic into the background graphic on that slide.  Since you've just copied the graphic, Captivate also remembers its precise location on screen. Go to the next slide where the logo is required and paste the graphic there and merge into the background as well.  It only takes a few seconds to do this per slide.  So you can quite quickly update multiple slides this way.

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