Does Captivate 3 support a talking-head

I understand Captivate 3 supports capturing your PC screen
and your voice at the same time. This is good for software
application training. However, even better is to record your voice
and head (hence talking-head) or maybe more than just your head, at
the same time. The video is then placed in the training video as a
PIP (Picture in a Picture).
Camtasia 5.0 does this but it needs major improvements.
Camtasia 5.0 does not support a camcorder's DV firewire as input.
TechSmith wants you to buy a WebCam which creates a poor quality
PIP. Also, the PIP, screens captured, and Transitions are not
smooth but more annoyingly acceptable.
Can Captivate 3 capture your PC screen and a talking-head at
the same time?

Hi SGEnterprises and welcome to our community
No, Captivate doesn't record in this manner. But you might
also check out Adobe Visual Communicator
Click here
for link and combine its FLV output with Captivate. Other than
that, there are other things you might do. There is a Developer
Center article on using a product called "Vcommunicator Studio"
that may interest you as well.
Click
here to see that article.
Hopefully something here was helpful... Rick

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