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Viluuilv
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July 29, 2011
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Slide video size adjustment

  • July 29, 2011
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Hi!

Is there a way to unlock the aspect ratio of an imported FLV or any other compatible video imported as slide video in Cp5? I'm asking this question because Premiere Pro CS4 does not allow me to export a clip in 800x600 frame size--the size of the Captivate 5 project I'm working on. And I must import the video file as the slide video because of the close captioning need. Thank you!

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Lilybiri
Lilybiri
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July 29, 2011

Hello,

Perhaps not ideal for quality, but you can resize the video in Captivate itself, with the limitation that the width-height ratio has to be maintained. Import the video as slide video and just resize it either manually or with the Size&Position accordion of the Properties panel.

Lilybiri

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ViluuilvAuthor
Participating Frequently
July 30, 2011

You are of course right, it could work that way. But my question was: is there a way to override the Captivate limitation of fixed aspect ratio. It looks there is none, therefore I went a roundabout way to have a 800x600 frame size video in my project. I had to break the slide into 3 separate slides, and import 3  Camtasia generated AVI files of that frame size into each slide. Maybe there's a better method, but the this one at least keeps the project going! I appreciate your readiness to provide thoughtful suggestions.

Lilybiri
Lilybiri
Legend
July 30, 2011

Hello,

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding 'fixed aspect ratio'? To me that is the width/height ratio, but from your last post it seems for you to be linked to the length of the video, because you are talking about splitting over different slides? Do you mean that in the video you have different sizes? Seems strange... Slide video can perfectly be spread over more than one slide, but that is not what you are looking for. Sorry but I'm not a native English speaker, the only terms that I do find in Captivate is 'Proportions are locked', which means that you cannot change the width/height ratio. To me that is logical because it would distort the video. Are you pointing at that? Even in video editing apps like Premiere Pro this is the case, unless you want to have some cropping possibility?

Lilybiri

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