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January 13, 2017
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Locking shapes or highlight boxes while panning/zooming on a video demo

  • January 13, 2017
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I created a video demo, then tried to insert highlight boxes or smart shapes to cover sensitive material.  When I pan or zoom, the highlight/shape stays in its original size and location, which means it no longer covers the material I need covered.  I have tried merging the shape with the background, but that takes it to the background behind my video, which is not helpful at all.  What am I doing wrong?

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Correct answer Paul Wilson CTDP

The video demo feature has a built-in function to obscure sensitive material. You can find it under the Video Effects tab when you are editing your Video Demo; It's simply called Popup. It allows you to select an area and essentially freeze frame that spot (where a pop-up is about to appear for example) for whatever duration you chose. Unfortunately, that feature doesn't work if you are simultaneously about to zoom or pan. 

2017-01-13 4-13-19 PM

 

In the past what I have done is taken that opportunity to place a strategically placed caption to obscure that information but there is no magic button that makes that stuff just disappear or moves the popup eliminator in time with panning or zooming. I think that would be a nice enhancement to Adobe Captivate. You could submit it as a feature request. I know I and other Video Demo people would use that.

http://www.adobe.com/products/wishform.html

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Paul Wilson CTDP
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Paul Wilson CTDPCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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January 13, 2017

The video demo feature has a built-in function to obscure sensitive material. You can find it under the Video Effects tab when you are editing your Video Demo; It's simply called Popup. It allows you to select an area and essentially freeze frame that spot (where a pop-up is about to appear for example) for whatever duration you chose. Unfortunately, that feature doesn't work if you are simultaneously about to zoom or pan. 

2017-01-13 4-13-19 PM

 

In the past what I have done is taken that opportunity to place a strategically placed caption to obscure that information but there is no magic button that makes that stuff just disappear or moves the popup eliminator in time with panning or zooming. I think that would be a nice enhancement to Adobe Captivate. You could submit it as a feature request. I know I and other Video Demo people would use that.

http://www.adobe.com/products/wishform.html

Paul Wilson, CTDP
Captiv8r
Captiv8r
Legend
January 13, 2017

If your primary mode of working with Captivate is the video demo mode, you would do yourself a huge favor and investigate TechSmith Camtasia. The editor is much more intuitive and you will have an infinitely better experience.

Personally, I like having both tools in my toolbox. For video demo type things, nothing beats Camtasia. But for the other things Captivate does, the slide-by-slide recording and ability to edit mouse movements afterwards and quizzing, it beats Camtasia hands down.

Cheers... Rick

Lilybiri
Lilybiri
Legend
January 13, 2017

Panning and zooming is only the video, the static objects are on another track, and are 'static', fixed in size and position.

It could be done, by editing the published movie (mp4) with an application like Premiere Pro. Too bad that the raw cpvc slide cannot be used. If you want to do it in Captivate, you'll have to avoid panning/zooming in combination with static objects.

Another idea, but I didn't double-check, and it may be very cumbersome: insert the video (without the blurring shapes) in a normal cptx-project as a cpvc slide. Then you'll be able to insert static objects to which you can apply an effect like 'Scale' or 'Motion path'.

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