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August 10, 2013
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How to create a special effect for 'wipe' and 'wheel'

  • August 10, 2013
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New to Captivate. Recently purchased Captivate 7. I'm trying to obtain an object 'add effect' similar to the "wipe" (from left) and the "wheel" animation effects found in PowerPoint. I want to simulate hand-drawing an emphasis line under text. I have a .png graphic of a hand-drawn red line (transparent background) that I'd like to appear by "wiping" from left to right. The "stretch" effect (from left to right) found in Captivate's "Add Effect" doesn't look right; it's obviously a 'stretch' instead of a 'wipe'.  Likewise, I would like to hand-draw a circle or oval around certain text or other objects to draw attention to these items. The "wheel" animation in PowerPoint works perfectly for this.

Is there a way to do this in Captivate? Maybe some variation of one of the built-in effects that I've missed? Camtasia Studio has "sketch motion graphics" built in - which also does this nicely.

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Correct answer RodWard

To create a wipe effect, you might be better off using the Masquerade widget instead of the slider.  Just animate the mask object using a Captivate motion effect.  This will give you a realistic wipe effect.

See some examples of masking effects with Masquerade widget here:

http://www.infosemantics.com.au/adobe-captivate-widgets/masquerade

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Lilybiri
Lilybiri
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August 11, 2013

With the slider widget of Infosemantics you can create the wipe effect. And think that the rotator widget could do the same for your wheel effect, but didn't try it out.

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pooljt 2Author
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August 13, 2013

Thanks for the info on Infosemantics and their widgets. As a Newbie I wasn't aware of them and their cool, useful products. However, after going through all the tutorials I couldn't figure out how the 'slider' widget would serve my need to simulate a hand-drawn line, from left to right, under text on a Captivate 7 slide. Yes, it can be used to animate (or move) any object, but not to "reveal" an object like the "wipe" animation in other programs.

I'm thinking now that it would be easier to just build an animated GIF or a small flash file to show a hand-drawn red line moving from left to right. I have Flash CS4 but have never used it. Something else new to learn.

Thanks again.

Lilybiri
Lilybiri
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August 13, 2013

I would use exactly the same technique that I use to create such an animated GIF in Photoshop: have a mask (object in same color as background) moving with the slider widget. I thought they have somewhere an example of that use?

Lilybiri

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