Captivate 3 - zoom - transition - resize

Can I make an selection in an slide and make an zoom-in
function of for instance an button or some part of the scene ?
Can I make transition effect between my slides ?
If I record on full screen (1024 x 768 ) can I resize the
whole project to 800 x 640 ?ot other size

Hi steenmikkelsen
For transitions, it will depend on your Captivate version.
Versions 1 and 2 had a few. Maybe 3 or 4. Captivate 3 has 10. If
you wish to see them all in action, I've got a download up on the
Captivate Exchange that will show them to you. You may visit the
Exchange by
clicking
here. My gizmo is called "Captivate Transition Chooser".
For the zooming effect, there is a Zoom Area tool that
appeared in version 2. So you will need to have version 2 or 3 to
have it available. Basically, you click Iinsert > Zoom area and
get two objects on your slide. One is the zoom area and one is the
zoom destination. Position the zoom area over the area you wish to
magnify. Place and size the zoom destination where you wish to
display what you are "zooming up". The difference in size between
these two areas controls the magnification level. The larger the
difference, the more magnified the area becomes. There is also an
option for displaying an image as the zoom destination. So, you
might have an image of the area at full size, then a smaller image
on the slide where you simply wish to zoom up and show the larger
area in a much clearer manner.
You can scale a project down from a larger resolution to a
smaller one, but keep in mind that at the end of the day when all
is said and done, Captivate projects use bitmapped images. Any
scaling down will result in a loss of quality. This is because you
are taking bitmaps and pushing the picture elements (pixels)
together. Things look "fuzzy" and no longer as clear as they
originally did. So it's a trade off. To do this, click Project >
Resize Project...
Cheers... Rick

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