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I'm talking about converting our projects into complete playback experiences. Of course, we'll need to look at outputting our projects into formats easily available to use. Now, just to clarify, Camtasia does allow user interactivity but not in the same way as Captivate does.

Now, one of the ways Captivate differs to screen capture programs such as Camtasia or Hypercam is in how we can include interactivity in Captivate, so that will take up some of our time, too. And, as the course progresses, we'll consider the implementation of integrated captions as a method of providing further information to narration as you're Captivate project unfolds. We'll also look at adding assets, or objects to our presentations, and the wide variety of importable properties we can include. Incidentally, if you do use PowerPoint then you'll have a jump start in terms of how projects fit together in relation to slides. We'll look at Captivate's integration with other Adobe programs and even with Microsoft's PowerPoint.

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I want to look at the individual panels in a fair bit of detail so that you can see how they link together, and we'll consider how to set up a Captivate presentation and how these presentations are, for the most part, built up from multiple slides, and slides are just containers for specific actions to occur before progressing to the next slide.

However, I am aware that some users don't know Adobe programs at all, so we will need to spend a little bit of time looking around the User Interface. As I've just said, it's not too dissimilar to all the other Adobe programs released to date. Well, I'll walk you around the interface so you know what's available to use and where the functions are situated. Anyway, back to what we'll feature in this course. As I said earlier, Captivate isn't one of Adobe's highest profile programs but, that said, it does share the common Adobe interface - not exactly, but if you're familiar with any of Adobe's programs, and who doesn't know Photoshop or Flash or Dreamweaver, then you'll not need to feel intimidated by Captivate's User Interface with its panel and tab structure. Speaking of unfolding courses, let me say what will be included in this course. And as this course unfolds I hope to show you how Captivate differs to the competition. I'm not saying Captivate is superior to Camtasia, I just say it's different.

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Now I know that sounds a little bit confusing when I say create software tutorials in a different way to traditional screen capture programs.

Anyway, enough about my credentials - back to Captivate history - RoboDemo quickly became rebranded as Captivate and from that point has become an extremely useful program that allows, amongst other things, software training in a different way to similar screen capture programs such as Camtasia. Since then, VTC have released a new WaveLab 6 course I authored and, hopefully, a soon to be released WaveLab 7 course now that it's just got released, in fact yesterday at the time of authoring this training tutorial. In fact, the WaveLab course was picked up by Steinberg's distributor at that time and, as far as I know, still lives on the product range from the company that bought it. Now, just going back a little, in this first RoboDemo incarnation I first wet my feet in the pool of software training and as a freelance software author I produced a couple of training courses on Celemony's Melodyne and Steinberg's WaveLab. In fact, it was originally called RoboDemo when the program was bought from a small company called EHelp and Adobe, from there, saw its potential and took it from strength to strength until what you see in front of you now, Captivate 5. Captivate is a more esoteric program in many ways, but it's a program that, excuse the pun, captivated me around six, maybe seven years ago in its original Macromedia incarnation when called RoboDemo. Now I say this because it's not one of Adobe's high profile programs like Photoshop or Illustrator or Flash. I imagine if you're here watching with fevered anticipation what will subsequently roll out in this comprehensive course, then you'll know at least a little about Captivate.

Hello, and welcome to this VTC course on Adobe's Captivate 5.

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