Best Method ? Capture Scrolling Window

[Guest]

Captivate v5.5

Mozilla Firefox 18.0.2

Windows XP 32bit SP3

I have a project that contains individual slides made up of screen shots taken from our website.

I now need to capture a full window from our website that requires me to scroll down the page in order to display all the window and then back to the top.

I believe the best way to capture such a widow  in a single seamless movie is to use FMR. However when I try FMR no matter how carefully/smoothly I scroll down the page with my mouse the result in Captivate tends to be "jerky".

Can you offer any suggestions to the correct settings for FMR to ensure a smooth display when played back or maybe an alternative way to capture a scrolling window as above.

In case it is important the total scroll time (down and back up) is approx 16-20 seconds.

Thanks in advance,

Noel

[Lilybiri]

Hi Noel,

FMR will never offer you the quality you want; only advice is to be sure it is set to 32-bit in Preferences, Recording.

In Captivate 6 I would suggest a Recording slide in Video Demo mode. And if you do have Camtasia, use that tool to record this movement.

InfoSemantics was working on a widget that could even give you that scrolling in an interactive way, but it is not released yet.

Lilybiri

[Varun Kalra]

Hello there,

Before you record in FMR, In captivate go to edit > preferences > recording  > FMR > in FMR mode increase the Frame rate to Video quality.

then start recording, and check whether that helps.

Thanks.

[Guest]

Hi both,

Settings are 32 bit and Video quality.

Thanks for your replies. At least I know I am doing all I can and will just have to live with what you get from Captivate when using FMR.

Thanks for replies.

Noel

[Varun Kalra]

Hello there,

Can you try and record another FMR and use different web browser and different website this time, record with 32 bit recording settings.

Check whether this gives same results?

Thanks.