Captivate MP4 format output

Hi,
I have generated the *.mp4 format output by using captivate 6.0. However, the output quality of the video is not satisfactory. The texts used in the demo are blurred and the image clarity is also not as expected.
Can someone please help me out in generating a high quality video output.
Thanks,
Panendra

OK. Well that rules out one of the main reasons people see degradation in output quality,..resizing the content.
My only other suggestion is that you may need to play around with the publishing settings in Captivate to see if changing something there will improve the quality.

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