Comprehensive Captivate Screen Recording Tutorial

I am looking for a complete treatment of screen recording, software simulations, FMR, and so forth. The ones I have found tell me how to check boxes and establish the settings. What I am looking for is how to capture a full screen (so resolution and screen size is an issue), how to scroll smoothly (on a website "how-tom" the scrolling is jerky, auto-panning frequently overruns the position of the screen view, and manual panning results in mouse movements that are more for moving the recording region than for the demo being recorded.), and how to edit the results without having the mouse appear on a subsequent screen shot or how to take out portions or how to add a delay on certain portions.
I am using Cp7. I want to record a demonstration about using our website. The CP project is to be published at 800x600. My monitor is 1920x1080. How do I work around the size differences and avoid the poor scrolling and panning? I have recorded at 1920x1080 and then resized the project in Captivate to 800x435 (my numbers may be off but I maintained the aspect ratio) and when I play it back, it is jumpy and certain images flash.
I just want a decent turorial. Perhaps a training class. I full treatment of how-to do screen recording so that it is smooth and is at the right screen/image size.
Any help is appreciated.
Signed, a small Adobe product user who yearns to be a big Adobe product user with just one great product: Captivate.
Michael

If I turn out to be correct, yes. But I might be wrong.
You can test whether or not this is the issue by just capturing a section of the Prezi where nothing much in the way of animation is happening. Find say a five or ten second slot with little or no animation and see whether that FMV part still exhibits the same issue. If your PC seems to handle that OK, then try a longer section with more animation. If I'm right, you should not have the issue where little or no animation is present, but the longer your file goes on and the more animation the chip in your motherboard has to decode, the slower it will get,

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No matter how much I try to get the scroll to be smooth while I move down to the bottom of our organization's web pages the Captivate screen recording is jerky. I also can't change the duration of the slides. I believe I have tried all option (FMR, Automatic, Panning, No Panning, Automatic Panning, Window, Full Screen, Application Region, Applicaiton Window).
Have watched webinars by Pooja (http://blogs.adobe.com/captivate/2012/08/screen-capture-enhancements-in-adobe-captivate-6. html#more-5367) and Allen P. Each shows these super cool "zooms" intto a section of the screen and then zoom out to see the whole screen. Nowhere can I find the how-to for that nifty trick. I have watched Adobe TV and the man in the video demonstration is close to reading the help file verbatim. Other videos say wonderful things like, "If you check the FMR option Captivate will provide a full motion recording." Duh. Question is, how to use FMR vs. Full Motion vs. Manual.
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Michael, I suspect the evangelists aren't using Captivate for their demos. I believe they are likely using Presenter Video Creator. Presenter is an add in for PowerPoint. I'm not sure, but it's likely that the Presenter Video Creator only ships with one of the suites. You might check to see if you have it installed. For me, on Windows 7 64 bit it's found in this location:
"D:\Program Files\Adobe\TCS34\Adobe Presenter Video Creator 8.0 x64\Adobe-Pr-VC.exe"
Note that I've deviated from the normal installation path. But it should give you an idea of where to look to find it.
If you have Windows 7, the way I always launch it is by clicking the Start button and just typing Presenter Video into that box above the Start button.
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I am trying to do a screen capture of a web based tool to train a client. I have done a few of these, and they worked pretty well, but longer recording seem to bog down. Obviously this makes sense, but the current recording is taking forever and I can not tell if the software is locked up or working. I just get the spinning ball on the mac when I try to bring up Captivate.
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I am trying to save Apple's iPod tutorial (http://www.apple.com/support/ipod/tutorials/) on my mac. I have succeeded in capturing the video portion of the tutorial, but there is no audio.
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I did this and found the URL given in your EXAMPLE DEFAULT.
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2) The Activity window only loads the reference URL after you select a clip for viewing but you seem to have a handle on this already.
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It is not clear to me how to do this
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I started playing the movie and did a control click but don't get a Copy Link option. Can't I just copy and paste the URL address from the movie window?
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