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accringtonstan
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January 8, 2010
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Not recording software simulation

  • January 8, 2010
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Hi

I have been recording a series of demos for Word 2007- various activities -inserting shapes , tables etc.  All recorded no problem.

Today I am doing the same thing and Captivate is not capturing stuff - usually selecting menus and dialog boxes- it just leaves it out.

I repeated some of the stuff already captued and it no longer captures it. One slide it just captured a mouse click at the end of the sequence! 0.2 seconds

I haven't touched the settings to my knowledge.  frustrating.

Any hints as to what might be happening?

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accringtonstanAuthor
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January 8, 2010

Aherm....

Answered my own question I seem to have turned off full motion recording.  Turned it back on and OK now.

Lilybiri
Lilybiri
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January 8, 2010

Hello,

Just out of curiosity: why do you choose FMR for this kind of demo's? Personally I believe that automatically recording, which results in slides and is really the recording style in which Captivate excels, is more appropriate. Not only it results in a smaller file size but you have much control and possibilty for editing, p.e. inserting extra Text Captions or Slides with explaining Text Captions. Supposing here that you keep the default settings that you let CP switch to FMR when necessary: for Drag and Drop and Mouse wheel actions.

Lilybiri

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Anonymous
February 9, 2010

I have the same problem with my laptop. The only way to get it to work is to use "Full Motion Recording". Captivate4 with VISTA will not capture anything other than the first slide. When I push My "Function+Prt Sc" combination nothing happens. The funny thing is that if I click on the red recording box, I hear the camera sound and it captures the slide. I used Captivate3 on XP and did not have any problems putting together Training Simulations, but this is frustrationing....

I have tryed the onboard mouse..same thing

Changed from wireless mouse to corded mouse...same thing(Microsoft mouse)

I just reinstalled captivate4 on my laptop and still have the same problem.

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