I am always very careful with that type of questions, due to my past career as professor in a university college. 'Mastering' is such a big word, which is used so lightlly by many book authors and trainers. Just a warning: based on my experience as consultant and trainer, there is a lot of bad training and courseware around. You don't learn to use a multi-featured application like Captivate by repeating step-by-step tutorials, whether in a book or in a video. They can help you when you don't remember the steps but they'll ot help you understanding the real core. Of course that is just my personal opinion. I never did take any training for Captivate, looked at some books and was so disgusted about them that I just plunged into the application and experimented. When starting I used thsi forum by asking questions when I was stuck. But very soon I started trying to answer questions and that was my way of learning Captivate. This worked for me, had already lot of experience with other software applications, including other Adobe apps. Having a background as professor helped of course but that seems to be OK for you as well.
You can have a look at my view on the three most important features to understand and be able to use in this blog post
Challenges for Starters - Captivate blog
When I coach a basic training, I create a Captivate vile, explaining those 3 points as well. That file is not published, because I mostly have to train in Dutch or French.
For the firstt stumbling block, TImeline, I created many articles, and will present again in April (DC). Here is an interactive movie, based on such a presentation (created with Captivate, I never use another tool for presentations, webinars, tutorials); I simply find it weird that so few training is around made with Captivate.
Captivate's Timeline
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