Change default length of highlight boxes?

Highlight boxes default to three seconds. On shorter slides where I still want a highlight, this stretches the slide length and disrupts my workflow with a few extra clicks. Is there any way to change the default length of highlights permanently?

Another option is to change the default duration for highlight boxes to Rest of Slide instead of a number of seconds. That way, no matter how long or short your slide was, the Highlight Box would not change the slide duration.

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Captivate 5.5 - Change default highlight box settings before recording

Hi, I'm trying to change the color of the default highlight box added to recordings. I need to change this at the global settings level and not project and before recording starts. Any suggestions?
Thanks.

Hello and welcome to the forum,
Could you explain this 'at the global settings level and not project....'? What did you change? Normally you'll have to change the object style of the highlight box:
If you do this without opening the first CP-file, the style will be applied to all your new projects while recording.
Lilybiri

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If you enable highlighting, the box the end user has is selected by default and you cannot change that. If you want that option added in a future version, submit a feature request.
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Highlight-Box "defaults" seem to have no effect

I've set default colors for the frame and "fill" of my
highlight boxes.
But when I do an "insert highlight box" in a slide, Captivate
ignores my default settings, and uses its own defaults (blue).
I tried saving my project and restarting Captivate, after
saving my default preferences, but that didn't seem to make any
difference.
Is there a way to force Captivate to pay attention to my
designated Highlight Box colors?

Hi Ernie
If I'm understanding you correctly, you have clicked Edit
> Preferences... > Recording node > Defaults node
(Captivate 3) and have configured the colors there? Note that this
doesn't really set the defaults for Highlight Boxes you insert
manually. That governs the colors used when you are recording
Demonstrations and Captivate automagickally inserts them for you.
When you insert one of these beasties and change the colors,
it *should* remember that setting until you change it again. But
I've seen first hand where that frequently is not the case. You
could try using the "Apply to all" setting after changing one.
Cheers... Rick

I go to "clip adjustments" and change the length of a photo. It reverts back to original length. I also shorten it by moving the yellow "box" around a specific clip. It still reverts back to original length. Why?

I go to "clip adjustments" and change the length of a clip. It reverts back to original length. I've also tried to shorten it by moving the yellow "box" around a specific clip to shorten. It still reverts back to original length. Why?

Welcome to iMovie Discussions.
See my 2nd reply to 'getzcreative', here.

Is there a way to change the master text length in FCP? The default length is 10 seconds, which is too long. I can easily adjust the length but I don't want to do it each time, and I don't want to adjust one and then have to copy and paste this length.

Is there a way to change the master text length in FCP? The default length is 10 seconds, which is too long. I can easily adjust the length but I don't want to do it each time, and I don't want to adjust a text clip and then have to copy and paste this each time. Ideally, there should be something in User Preferences but there is not. Thanks.

Maybe some one else can pipe up with a solution, but this would literally take 2 seconds to do for a new project. And you can create a "template project" that includes this "text" clip. Save this project and then to a get info and check "stationary pad." When you double click on this file, fcp will open with a copy of this project and you just need to do a save as.
I've been working with computer editing systems for longer than i can remember and at a certain point you just have to adapt your workflow to the limitations of the software.

How do I change the properties of all my highlight boxes at the same time?

How do I change the properties of all my highlight boxes at the same time?

Hello,
Which version of Captivate do you use, please?
Lilybiri

Highlight Boxes

Is there a way to change the default color of the highlight
boxes? I know how to change the caption boxes but haven't located a
way to change the hightlight boxes.

Welcome to our community, Diana!
Typically the highlight box *should* remain at the last
selected color. So if you inserted one and changed the color to
Red, the next one you insert should be Red.
However, I've also seen where this doesn't seem to hold true.
Another thing you can try is to configure the colors you wish, then
use the "Apply to all" function. This is a check box you find in
the lower left corner of the dialog.
Keep in mind that the Apply to all may not always apply to
all. Sometimes it may be a bit of hit and miss.
Cheers... Rick

Mouse and highlights boxes

for some odd reason after i publish my project my mouse
cursor is always under my highlight boxes. On all of my slide
timelines my mouse is on the highest layer possible and my
highlight boxes are below it. anyone have any ideas as to why this
is happening? I haven't added anything new to my project, its in
its final state ready to go other then this issue. Thanks in
advance!
btw using version 2!

aphexburn, I'm sorry to see that you have given up, but when
reading your last post, a single thought kept resonating with me.
800 slides? Assuming that this wasn't a mistyping and you
really meant 80 slides, I am amazed that you are surprised to have
had trouble!! Astounding!!
To others who might drop by this thread: A Captivate movie is
normally thought of as a project between 40 and 50 slides. Some
very large ones might be as large as 80 to 100, but a project that
size is against best practice. These are not written "standards"
but are recommendations of experts based on thousands of users'
sharing experiences, and the above numbers apply to
all versions.
One of the overlooked reasons for keeping Captivate movies to
a reasonable (shorter) length is because it is easier to go back
and make changes to a 40 slide movie than to a 80 slide movie. It
is easier to find the slide you want to work on, and easier to
apply changes to multiple slides without the "goof" of including
some you didn't mean to change after all (which is why "Apply to
All" can be a fatal trap if not used very carefully).
Another reason is that even if you have a muscle machine with
resources sufficient to save and edit a 100+ slide movie, it often
becomes questionable whether or not your end-user's machine's
resources (and bandwidth) are capable of viewing the finished
product.
Another reason is that the average adult's all-important
"attention span" - or just their available time - is often
stretched with over-long movies, whether demo, application
simulation, or soft-skills training. The average adult can handle
up to seven items at a time in memory, but those items should be
germane to a single point of focus, in order to be of bbest value
in a learning process.
And if 100 slides is generally considered excessive (as a
"norm") what category does 800 slides fall?
Thanks for reading. This point is important to everyone, and
while I don't mean to belittle anyone, I could not remain silent on
this issue and let a single unhappy user mislead others, when all
that might have been required to avoid his or her dissatisfaction
is some basic knowledge about "best practices".
Have a great day everyone!

How to change default texts in OSX dialogue windows?

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This just seems like it should be a no-brainer, but obviously for me it isn't. I'm trying to change the length of multiple lines, that are at different angles, at the same time, in CS4. Basically, I design the face of dials used for airplane instrument gauges (like RPM, Torque, etc), and they have gradiation marks (lines) located all around, similar what a clock looks like with the hour and minute gradiation marks (lines). Is there a way to select all the lines, that I know are the same length, and change it to a different length, that's accurate to the 1/100th of an inch? It would just be like selecting multiple lines that have all the same stroke, then using the stroke box to change the stroke weight from .025in to .030in.
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OK, after fiddling around with everyone's ideas, I think I finally got it. I knew there had to be something with proportions between W and H, but couldn't figure out the math, until Jacob answered with:
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How to change the name of a Box Object in Crystal Reports 2008

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