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Cp4 - Recordings (Demo - Training - Assessment)

  • May 21, 2010
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Hello folks,

I am currently involved in building software training video lessons. Each one of these 10 - 15 minute videos will have both a demo and a training version.

Unfortunately, Captivate records two separate videos (unlike other tools like RWD which record just one video - then plays back the appropriate version depending on how it's called).

So, with Captivate I will spend over an hour correcting (add/del screens, add/del/changing call-outs, adding notice boxes, etc.)...but then I must then repeat all that work when building the next video.

Is there another easier way to accomplish the goal of creating both a demo and a training video that are nearly identical?

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Lilybiri
Lilybiri
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May 21, 2010

Hello Shawn

Do not understand your question quite well: you want two movies, one a demonstration, one a training. Have been doing that sometime ago (now only create trainings and assessments, almost never demo). Did it this way to avoid a lot of editing later on:

  1. Configure in Preferences exactly what you want in the two modes, under Recording, Mode(s) both for Demonstraton and for Training simulation
  2. From the welcome screen (not from within a Blank Project) choose 'Software Simulation'
  3. Under Automatic Recording, indicate that you want a Demo as well as a Training:

  5. Capture, you'll end up with two files, exactly with the same background slides and with the objects you indicated to add in the Preferences.

Is this what you want to achieve? Think you wouldn't need to do that much editing any more.

Lilybiri

Captiv8r
Captiv8r
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May 21, 2010

Hi Lieve

If I'm reading this correctly I think Shawn's complaint stems from the fact that this produces more than a single project file. He is wanting some workflow where a single project file is created that contains all the different modes. That way changing a text caption for a Demonstration might also change it for the Simuation (assuming the sim would have the text caption) without having to make the same change in different projects.

Cheers... Rick

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Lilybiri
Lilybiri
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May 21, 2010

Hello Rick,

You could certainly have the right intuition, I was a little bit puzzled by his question. What confused me is that Shawn is talking about much editing, so I thought he captured twice.

Do not understand well how this could be better if all was in one file? You'd have a slide for the demo and another for the training simulation then? Or the same slide with both captions and objects needed for demo as well as for training? But then a lot of editing is needed too. Would really like he explained his wishes. Thinking that in CP5, when opening both files in the MDI, copy+paste could be a timesaver. In the past I realized the same mostly by importing similar (mostly instruction) slides from one of the project in the other.

Lilybiri

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