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Anonymous
January 18, 2015
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How to disable FMR capture and use Screenshots only?

  • January 18, 2015
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I'm using Captivate 7.0.0.118 to record a video demonstration.  I currently use recording type "Automatic" and mode "Demo".  The resulting project has some slides containing screenshots and some slides containing full motion recordings (FMR) for instance when I drag the mouse across the screen.

I need to reduce the project size, and I have already done what I can from the SWF Size settings as well as the Audio quality settings. I would like to eliminate all FMR captures and instead rely only on screenshots. I envision narrating the demonstration and pressing the Print Screen key whenever I want a screenshot. I would expect the resulting SWF to be much smaller.

Problem is that I have been unable to find out which settings will disable FMR capture. I tried setting recording type to "Manual" but that did not work.  Is it possible to turn off FMR and rely on screenshots only?

Please help,

-Patrick

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Lilybiri
Lilybiri
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January 18, 2015

A tip: you don't have the latest version, please install the free update.

You cannot disable FMR, if my memory is correct (I'm on CP8), but you can delete all the slides that have the small camera in the Filmstrip. And during capture try to avoid scrolling, dragging as much as possible, mostly there are alternatives (like shortcuts). However unless you have a lot of those movements, I'm not sure at all that will reduce the file size that much. Audio clips take up a lot of file size. The resolution you choose for the files, the number of frames (lot of users do make slides unnecessary long), the quality of images..

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Anonymous
January 18, 2015

Thank you for taking the time to respond. I was hoping for better news. I can't avoid a lot of mouse dragging because I'm recording solutions to math problems, so I write and manipulate equations and graphs as I record by dragging the mouse on a digital pad.  In my use case, I think FMR contributes a lot to file size because projects that have a lot more audio but a lot less FMR are much smaller in size. The slide resolution is out of my control, so reducing it to cut down file size is not an option.

I'm intrigued by the idea of manually deleting FMR slides, though that would be a pain because I go through a lot of projects and they probably average about 200 slides. Plus I wonder, if I remove FMR slides from the project, wouldn't it throw the audio out of sync? Remember that I narrate while I solve the math problems.

Appreciate your time, and the tip. Have a great day,

-Patrick

Lilybiri
Lilybiri
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January 18, 2015

You didn't tell that, I never record narration at the same times as I'm capturing (bit of a perfectionist). FMR-slides are really only designed to capture very small movements, but apparently you do have a lot of FMR! You never thought to use HD Video Demo slides for the movements? Of course, maybe file will not be reduced (those slides are converted to MP4) but quality would be a lot better, and you could zoom/pan by editing in the video editor. I don't like the FMR-quality at all, not even when set to 32-bit.

Indeed, in that case manual deleting is not at all an option because you'd break the audio clip totally.

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