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Chapter 3:  Creating Projects

When you finish recording, Adobe Captivate generates the slides that comprise the project and 
displays them in Adobe Captivate Storyboard view. Any drag-and-drop or mouse wheel scrolling 
actions that you recorded as full motion slides are displayed in Storyboard view with a movie 
camera icon in the lower-right corner of the slide. Full motion slides are saved and included in 
projects as animation slides.

Tip: For best capture results, especially with full motion recording, perform actions (dragging, clicks, 
typing) slowly.

The full motion recording feature is enabled by default. You can disable it, though, at any time.

To disable full motion recording of drag-and-drop or mouse wheel actions:

1.

Open an Adobe Captivate project

2.

From the Options menu, select Recording Options.

3.

Click the Full Motion Recording tab.

4.

Clear the Automatically use full motion capture for drag-and-drop actions option or the 
Automatically use full motion capture for mouse wheel actions option.

5.

Click OK.

Using recording modes

Adobe Captivate not only records projects automatically, but also customizes what objects are 
added to the projects you automatically create based on the purpose of your project. This feature 
is called recording modes. For example, by selecting a recording mode, you can easily create 
projects that are appropriate to use as simulations or demonstrations. This enables you to create 
projects quickly because Adobe Captivate does much of the work. 

Note: Recording modes can only be used when you are using Auto Recording. If you record projects 
manually, the modes are not available.

To select and use a recording mode:

1.

Open Adobe Captivate. 

2.

From the Options menu, select Recording Options.

3.

Click the Recording Options tab. 

4.

Select Enable auto recording.

5.

From the Recording mode pop-up menu, select an option:

Demonstration

  Select this option to automatically include captions, highlight boxes, and 

mouse movement in the auto-recorded project. 

Assessment Simulation

  Select this option to automatically include click boxes with a failure 

caption in the auto-recorded project. You can also choose to automatically create text entry 
boxes. Mouse movement is not included.

Training Simulation

  Select this option to automatically include click boxes with hint and 

failure captions to the project. Mouse movement is not included