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August 11, 2013
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How edit SWF backgrounds?

  • August 11, 2013
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I generated a simulation and am redacting private information from the background images.  How can I edit the Captivate generated SWF backgrounds?

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Correct answer Lilybiri

This is an automatic capture.  On a few of the screens I scrolled the page to see a different part.  The generated SWF backgrounds animate the scrolling of the page.  In Captivate the only thing on the timeline is the slide and there is a red bar in the timeline.  This sounds like the FMR you are describing.


Indeed, those are the FMR-slides. If you are using CP6 or 7 you could also replace them by Video demo slides (Insert Recording slides), which takes more planning (you have to stop the automatic capture to create such a slide) but has a lot better quality (recommend for future projects to set the recordings to 32-bit) and find it easier to use the video editor to add such objects for blurring etc. The editing possibilities for FMR are rather limited

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Lilybiri
Legend
August 11, 2013

Hello and welcome to the forum,

All backgrounds are to be found in the Library (you can use Find in Library). They can be edited with any graphics editing application.

Another approach could be to cover the private information by another object to which you could add a blurring effect, or make partial transparant?

Participant
August 11, 2013

Hi Lilybiri,

Thanks for the response!  I am successfully editing the static image backgrounds with an external image editor.  I am curious what others use to edit SWF files.  I was hoping I was overlooking a way to edit them in Captivate or Flash.  So far it looks like I need to purchase a SWF decompiler to generate a FLA file then edit that in Flash then publish a new SWF file.  Am I on the right track?

John

Lilybiri
Legend
August 11, 2013

Indeed, a SWF is a published file. Decompiling to FLA will not be easy. I misunderstood that you didn't have the original Captivate file.