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Anonymous
March 5, 2007
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Zooming back out?

  • March 5, 2007
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I'm using Captivate 2. I zoomed an area of the screen, looks great. But I want the image to zoom back to its original place. The idea is to have an image (a toolbar, in my case) zoom out to the center of the demo, stay there for a couple of seconds, and then return to its original place. Is this possible?
Another option would be to have a blinking rectangle appear around the object.

Any ideas?

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    Anonymous
    March 6, 2007
    Hi Rick,

    Thanks for the quick reply.
    That's what I figured. I tried that but then you're left with an image in the middle of the screen. I decided to go with your first idea where the zoomed area (toolbar in my case) slides in to the middle of the screen, then fades out.
    Captiv8r
    Captiv8r
    Legend
    March 5, 2007
    Hi BenSchatz and welcome to our community

    The zoom area has its own time on the timeline. One way to "zoom out" is by simply adjusting the zoom area object in the Timeline so it doesn't stretch all the way across to the end of the slide. The net effect should be a zoom, followed by the zoomed area disappearing before the slide reaches its end.

    Or are you instead, referring to the zoom occurring a second time. But this time in reverse, where the animation zooms from being large back to the area where it zoomed from? If this is the case, I've done it as well. But it's fairly involved and I'll hold off on an explanation until I know which you are looking for.

    Cheers... Rick
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    Anonymous
    March 6, 2007
    Hi Rick,

    I was looking for the second option of reverse zooming. Too bad it isn't one of the built-in options of Captivate.

    Thanks.
    Captiv8r
    Captiv8r
    Legend
    March 6, 2007
    Hi BenSchatz

    In case you are still interested in accomplishing this, here is how I do it.

    Insert an image of what your zoomed area looks like. This would be what appears inside the zoom destination where you zoomed things up. I would remove any transition from the image. (From the image properties, click the Options tab and set

    Now insert a zoom area. The trick here is to use an image for the zoom destination part. Use the same image I mentioned above. Then you set the zoom beginning rectangle to be the enlarged part and the zoom destination to be the "zoomed down" part.

    Hopefully this helps... Rick
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