About full motion

I have tow questions:
the full motion I recorded is very large,I use fmr_editor to
edit,but still large,if I view it through web,it is slowly
I only want to a bitmap move,the full motion is so large,I
make a swf import to the captivate,but it's position can not align
to the next slide
can anyone slove this problem?

Select all and Hide all the slides in the filmstrip (rightclick when in the filmstrip) then UNHIDE the one you are pubishing, this will result in only publishing the one you have deselected. You will have to pubish 70 times, but it will save you from cutting and pasting them into new projects.

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Full-motion Video

OK, I have cerated a number of chapters in an onlien tutorial
and they are all working fine. But now I am creating one chapter
that will need to utilize a long (20-30 secs.) of full-motion
video. When I do the capture, and switch over to full-motion (F9),
it appears everything is fine. I switch back (F10) and then end my
recording.
The first issue is that Captivate breaks up the full-motion
section into several segments, resulting in a visible glitch
between them when playing back. (I am also finding that the program
crashes frequently when working with full-motion, so I am saving
and restarting frequently.)
But the real problem comes in playback over the web. There
seems to be a problem in the file picking up the swf video at the
right moment and I am sometimes seeing nothing but a black screen.
If I play the file a few times, then it seems to load and play back
OK, but is there anything I can do to ensure a consistent playback?
Thanks!
bobby

Hi Ray,
You are experiencing "normal behavior" for the use you are
putting Captivate to. It was never designed as a full motion video
capture tool. I won't argue whether or not the marketing people
ever said it was capable of doing what you say you bought it to do,
but I really doubt they would make a claim that everyone knows is
not true ... if you can find something official from Adobe
asserting that, I'd sure be interested in seeing it.
The full motion feature was intended to be used to
demonstrate 2-3 second drag-and-drop operations, or use of a
scroll bar action of about that duration. In addition, you stated
you are capturing at 1024x768 size, which is an image of truly
gigantic proportions - adding to the full motion load you are
already throwing at the product. Could it be that another product
is better suited for what you want to do? I'd consider that
seriously because you are asking more of Captivate than I believe
it can deliver on anything but a machine designed for 2015
processor speeds with infinite resources.
It is especially sad that you own and used Captivate 1.0.1,
then spent an additional 30 days using the Trial version of
Captivate 2.0 ... but are just now finding it doesn't do what you
thought it should do. Again, sorry for your trouble.
.

Importing full motion video in slidelet

Alright recorded some slides and I am trying to incorporate
them in to a slidelet but they have full motion recordings in them.
When I publish to SWF it makes two separate SWF files. The full
motion portion is in the middle of my project. Is there any work
around to playing the full project in the slidelet? Will I again be
stupefied by the simplicity of it?

Sorry, I didn't think about just making the whole thing full
motion.....

Cursor Trails in full motion capture

I am trying to capture a drafting exercise requiring full
motion capture. I have tried varying the frame rate as suggested in
the Help documentation but can see little improvement. Can anyone
give me some direction on how to address the issue of cursor trails
in full motion captures. My capture are is large - 1024x768
recorded at 30fps and a 2 minute movie.

Hi CowanJim
If you are using Captivate 2, recording a video sequence
longer than about 4-5 seconds is asking too much of Captivate.
Captivate 3 expanded on the full motion capability, but it's
nowhere near Camtasia if your goal is to have full motion from
start to finish. This is why I see room in my toolbox for both
products. Each has its own strengths.
Things I might suggest you try would be:
* I know you have played with frame rate and didn't see much
difference.
* Close Captivate and perform some maintenance of your PC.
Clear any and all temp files, internet cache, etc. Then run a
defrag. Basically make sure the system is as optimal as you can.
Make certain you have plenty of space on your hard drive. For that
matter, if you have two hard drives, see which one is faster. You
may find that you have a C drive that is what is called a "54 spin"
or 5,400 RPM drive and you might have added a second drive that is
a "72 spin" or 7,200 RPM drive, which would be faster. So consider
clicking Options > Recording Options... > Full Motion
Recording tab. Play with the "Disable Hardware Acceleration"
setting. Here is where you might consider changing your "Working
folder". This is where Captivate stashes the full motion capture
before it gets converted to .SWF. The "Raw" data, if you will. If
you see something like C:\DOCUME~1\Rick\LOCALS~1\Temp\~CaC96, try
changing to C:\ to eliminate the folder crud. I'm thinking that may
slow things down a tad. Or, if you do have that fast second drive,
change to its drive letter. Maybe D:\. Also try changing the Video
color mode setting.
Hopefully something here will prove useful... Rick

Capture Screen Shot not working in Full Motion

I am trying to use Full Motion Recording to capture mouse
movement, while also manually capturing screen shots. The screen
shots are not being captured though. I've tried the default Print
Screen key, and also resetting it to the Down key, with no success.
I can capture the screen shots when Full Motion Recording is not
active.
The information in the Help files and Knowledgebase seem to
indicate that it's possible to manually capture screens while
recording full motion. Any suggestions about what could be going
wrong?
Thanks.

Hi LisaLouLou and welcome to our community
I think the help may be misleading you here. If you are
recording by using the total “Full Motion Capture”,
Captivate ignores the Print Screen key because you have told it
that the entire project is to be recorded using Full Motion. Hence,
there is no slide by slide based recording as there is using the
other options.
After you have recorded, you are free to insert blank slides,
then add images as needed in case that helps.
Cheers... Rick

Editing Full motion recording

Hi,
I have a full motion recording that is fine until I place a 100% solid highlight over some white thext that is on part of my desktop where I am recording, set it to arrange to back and or merge with background, but when a dialog box from the application I am recording comes up, it is partially hidden by my highlight box.
I have tried it with a smart shape too, but same problem comes up...and I cannot change the desktop background in my department at work.
Any help please, much appreciated.
Rossco

Rossco,
Are you talking about Video Demo recording? It is because you talk about 'merging with background', which is not possible when you are doing such a recording? The video editor allows only to put objects like highlight boxes on top of the video.
Lilybiri

Audio out of sync with presentation (not using full motion)

When I preview or publish a project using Captivate 5, the audio is out of sync with the presentation. I am not using any full motion recording, which I know has caused audio/video sync issues in previous versions of Captivate. The audio is slide specific, with a separate audio file for each slide. (In other words, I'm not trying to break a large audio file over many slides.) When each slide is viewed individually -- in the workstation, in the preview window, or in the published version -- the audio is synced just fine. The problem arises only when I try to watch the entire presentation (approx. 10 minutes in length). The audio gradually lags behind the visual. By about half way through the project, the visual presentation is noticably ahead of the audio. By the end, the audio is nearly 4 seconds behind the video. I cannot detect a noticeable change in pitch or speed of the audio, so if the audio is being altered in any way, the alteration is slight.
However, if I use the playback controls to advance to a single slide, the audio is fine for that slide and those immediately after, although it does gradually get off again as the project progresses. (So, for example, if I start the playback in the middle of the project, the audio will only be off by about 2 seconds by the end, rather than 4.)
I have tried various publishing options (although I don't think publishing is the problem, since this happens when I preview the project as well). I have used 2 different computers and also tried viewing the published version locally and streaming. None of these alterations seem to make a difference. By the end of the presentation, regardless of how the project is published or viewed, the audio is several seconds behind the video.
My specs:
Captivate 5
Microsoft XP OS
2 GB RAM
Publishing to .swf
Suggestions?

Hi Mukul,
Thank you very much for your careful responses. Here are the answers to the questions.
First of all, the "slow video" behavior does appear only after adding the slides mentioned in previous post.
1.    I created a “software simulation” project. It IS a capture+audio recording.
2.    Since I recorded the audio while doing screen capture, almost every slide has audio, which is not convenient to edit at all. Is there any other better way that I missed so that we can keep the audio and video at the same step while editing them? As I know so far, either insert silence or delete a little audio to one slide, the audio becomes short, but the slide duration time is still the same as before unless we change that manually which normally is not precise enough to match the audio.
3.    I tried to add the blank slides at where there is a pause of speaking and where they are close to the problem slides. Otherwise, the speaking would sound weird.
4.    Published SWF file size is 20.6 MB.
5.    I do have two externalized video files for title and end.
6.    Unfortunately, it is still slow even if it played on a different system.
And another problem comes up these days. After publication, the screen resolution is not good (like some grey ink left on screen) wherever click or type something. It did not happen before even if worked on the same computer.
I am very sorry that there are so many problems. I have been working on this for long time. The project totally drove me nuts. Hopefully you have more ideas about that.
I really appreciate your help.
Sincerely,
Linda

Full Motion Video - memory leak?

Good afternoon.
I am using captivate 1.01.1418.1418 to record and present
standalone demos of rich client web technologies. The default
capturing techniques just don't cut it, so I need to record the
entire demo in full motion video.
What I have noticed is that when you edit the video AND ALSO
when running the published demo using either stand-alone or swf
object methods that there is a huge memory leak. I am talking to
the magnitude of 20-25 meg / second while displaying full motion
video.
My latest presentation is 22 slides where 3 of them are short
full motion video clips recorded at 1024x768 with no audio. The
clips are between 30-90 seconds.
The generated output exe is 6 megs and if I generate it with
all compression off it is 11 megs. When I run it, my memory usage
goes to 1.7 GIG of Physical Memory and over 2 GIG of Virtual Memory
in use. The movie playback then turns solid red and my machine
hangs up until I can manage to kill the playback.
Is there a known issue with full motion video and memory
leaks? I can understand if it took more memory to run it, but using
3+ gig of RAM to play a 10 meg file? Something sounds off to me.
I had purchased this product to record and display full
motion demos and so far it has not been able to meet the needs it
promised to deliver.
Any help anyone provides is greatly appeciated.
Please respond here and/or email me at
[email protected]
Thanks in advance for your time.
-Ray
P.S. I remember seeing the same behavior on my trial version
of Captivate 2, however, my trial has expired and I cannot see if
the leak is of the same magnitude.

Hi Ray,
You are experiencing "normal behavior" for the use you are
putting Captivate to. It was never designed as a full motion video
capture tool. I won't argue whether or not the marketing people
ever said it was capable of doing what you say you bought it to do,
but I really doubt they would make a claim that everyone knows is
not true ... if you can find something official from Adobe
asserting that, I'd sure be interested in seeing it.
The full motion feature was intended to be used to
demonstrate 2-3 second drag-and-drop operations, or use of a
scroll bar action of about that duration. In addition, you stated
you are capturing at 1024x768 size, which is an image of truly
gigantic proportions - adding to the full motion load you are
already throwing at the product. Could it be that another product
is better suited for what you want to do? I'd consider that
seriously because you are asking more of Captivate than I believe
it can deliver on anything but a machine designed for 2015
processor speeds with infinite resources.
It is especially sad that you own and used Captivate 1.0.1,
then spent an additional 30 days using the Trial version of
Captivate 2.0 ... but are just now finding it doesn't do what you
thought it should do. Again, sorry for your trouble.
.

'Ghost' lines on a PowerPoint presentation as Full Motion Recording in Captivate 5.5

I have created a PowerPoint presentation as Full Motion Recording with audio in Captivate 5.5. When I preview the resulting video or publish it the LMS there are 'ghost' lines on the slides, as if Captivate is picking up the PowerPoint textbox outlines or graphic placement guidelines. Is there any way I can remove these lines?
Alternatively, is there any other way to make a video of a PPT so that the animations work without any user interaction?

Thanks Lilybiri. I made a misyake about the version of Captivate - it should have read '5.5'.
I've started a new discussion.
Johnarmitage3

'Ghost' lines on a PowerPoint presentation as Full Motion Recording in Captivate 6.

I have created a PowerPoint presentation as Full Motion Recording with audio in Captivate 6. When I preview the resulting video or publish it the LMS there are 'ghost' lines on the slides, as if Captivate is picking up the PowerPoint textbox outlines or grahic placement guidelines. Is there any way I can remove these lines?

Thanks Lilybiri. I made a misyake about the version of Captivate - it should have read '5.5'.
I've started a new discussion.
Johnarmitage3

Full motion preview as video file icon?

is there a way to give a video file a finder icon that shows a full-motion preview, much like the small clip that plays when you highlight a video file in frontrow? thanks!

Hi gazer,
I'm not certain about a Finder icon to assign to a video clip but here's an example of what you can do.
Open a Finder window. Select "Column View" from the buttons just right of your Forward/Back buttons. Now, in the Sidebar on the left, click Movies, (or whatever file you keep videos in, it's handy to keep them in the Sidebar)... a list of video files will appear. Just select one. A video clip will appear in the column to the right and you can view it that way. If need be you can Customize your Toolbar in any Finder window. Just open a Finder window, then in the Menu top of your Desktop, click View/Customize Toolbar.
Hope this helps...
Carolyn

Re: full motion scrolling problem

Hi Jay
What version of Flash Player do you have installed? I ask
because the issue
with white screens displaying where the full motion bits
should be seems to be
a common complaint among Captivate users since Flash Player
version 10 arrived.
Someone from the Captivate development team posted about
this in the thread
linked below:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?forumid=67&catid=46
4&threadid=1409667
As I understand it, only the Captivate preview has issues.
If you choose to
preview in the browser (instead of in Captivate) the preview
should work.
Cheers... Rick

Hi Jay,
I have been developing content in Captivate heavily for 4
years. I am curently doing a project for a client using Captivate 2
and I am having major problem with full motion recording. Not only
do I sometimes get the white screens (no pattern to when it
happens) so is this really a Flash 10 problem!? but I had some
shots that needed me first to scroll down and then scroll to the
right. They looked fine in the editing pane but when I previewed or
published they got mixed up. I tried re-recording those scrolls
about 10 times and still issue. After 6 hours wasted, I ended up
having to completely delete that file and start again. Only then
did it work. I have often found full motion scrolling in Captivate
to be erratic and unpredictable, especially when you have more than
3 full motion animations in one project.
Sorry I didnt find a solution for you.

Long delay after F10 "full motion" stop

I am new to Captivate and am recording a movie in Word where
I need user to see continuous movement of mouse cursor as I point
to different things in the Word document. I am also using
continuous audio while recording to movie. The problem is that when
I hit the F10 key to stop the full motion animation I get a delay
of about 20 seconds before the movie ends, even though I quickly
hit the End key after hitting the F10 key. The full motion movie
created is about 9MB and about 4 minutes long but with a long delay
of at least 20 seconds with no action at the end of the movie. It's
almost like my hardware is working to stop the animation and end
the movie but it is taking 20 seconds to stop the full motion
recording and ending the movie. Has anyone else experienced this
problem? I am using a laptop with a Celeron M 1.5 GHZ computer. Is
my hardware the problem?
Adobe technical support has had me reload the Captivate
program several times with no luck.
Any suggestions?

Hi again Jeff
As I indicated in my earlier post, full motion in Captivate
is brief. For example, say you are recording WordPad (this example
is taken from the official Captivate training curriculum).
You record dragging across a sentence to select it. This is
just a few seconds long and ends up as full motion. You then click
the color pallete to change the color. This results in a static
slide. You choose the color. Another static slide. You step off to
show the color change. Another static slide. Now you scroll the
document to view the text at the bottom. Another full motion slide
as you drag the thumb of the scroll bar. Then you select multiple
lines. Another full motion slide as you select the lines. Then you
click the icon to apply bullets. Static slide. Then step off the
selected text to reveal the bulleted text with no highlight. A
final static slide.
With Captivate, it is the combination of static and full
motion slides that provides the illusion of fluid movement.
Hope this helps... Rick

Crop/Zoom-In/Resize full motion shot

I've got some real nasty vignetting in a 2-1/2 minute video clip, and I must use the clip.
I would like to figure out how to increase the shot size (ZOOM IN) by about 15% and re-render it to take care of this problem.
This is full motion video, NOT a still photograph --Ken Burns won't work here (sadly).
Thanx!

Gerry,
perhaps these two plug-ins may be of interest to you:
http://imovieplugins.com/plugs/eliminateborders.html
and
http://imovieplugins.com/plugs/adjustsize.html
Hope this helps,
-ch
Please Note:
I work for cf/x, and may profit from posting here.

Full motion .swf's in Adobe Presenter

This has been one of the most frustrating and time consuming
technical issues I've ever encountered. This is my 3rd posting (2
on a Captivate forum, 1 on a Presenter forum), and no one is able
to help me! Surely I can't be the only one to encounter the blank
screens that appear in my .swf files embedded in Adobe Presenter.
When I publish the Captivate file to .swf, multiple files are
generated. There are around 20 of them called "Fullmotion"... I can
view the main .swf file fine in IE, but when I insert the Flash
file in Presenter and publish the file, the video in the published
presentation plays for a while, then a white screen pops up, goes
back to playing, white screen again, etc... I figured out that
those white screens appear whenever there's a "Fullmotion" .... At
first I thought it was a Flash version issue, but that isn't the
case. Then I thought I had my answer when someone suggested to turn
off the borders. That didn't work.
What's the deal here? We paid a lot of money for these Adobe
products, you'd think they'd work together! Or that they would at
least offer free support ! Please someone help me!!

Hi,
The John Daigle solutions doens´t help me either and I
dont know why. But I
fix it using Flash to import/export each fullmotion in
version 7 with AS
1.0 and "import" this files to the respective slide to change
for the older
one.
I hope that captivate´s team fix it in the next update.
RB
"jpbatB" <[email protected]> escreveu na
mensagem
news:g4dqtb$5m1$[email protected]..
> Many days late and dollars short but....
> I followed the steps (John Daigle via Captv8r) but it
didn't work for me.
> Perhaps it was because I have to resize the captured
session in order to
> fit
> properly in the application in which the movie is
embedded. It looks as
> though
> the "extra" full motion swfs remain at the original
capture size and, even
> though the animations seem to play correctly when run
from the output
> folder,
> they do not run at all when the main swf is relocated.
In other words, the
> "fix" makes no difference from the original result.
> Guess I'll have to re-record that section without using
full motion
> (though,
> since this is a drag-and-drop operation, I don't know
how that will
> appear).
> I haven't yet seen ANY particular useful "upgrade" in
Captivate 3 to
> offset
> the distinct downgrades that have occurred.
>

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