Editing Animation Slides

I just recorded my first movie in Captivate 3. Due to PII standards, I need to edit the screenshots captured so real customer and employee information is not shown. Can this be done and if so, how do I get the images captured to copy so I can transfer them to an editing program such as Photoshop or Paint?

Hi there
It depends on how you captured the data.
Often there is no need to edit in a third party application. If you captured using the normal screen-by-screen capture, you can insert a Highlight Box object, cover the information and merge it into the background to obliterate the information. Then layer in a Transparent Text Caption to provide fictitious information if you like.
Cheers... Rick
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thing for the developer to do.
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do) take 5 minutes of your day and submit an enhancement request
asking for a simple typing text animation. If we had this, there
would be no need to re-record slides where we made a typo. We could
actually forego recording that piece at all, then add it later via
a typing text animation.
If you would like to add to the collective voice of others
that would like to see this feature, please consider submitting a
wishform at the link below:
Click
here to visit the Wish Form
Sincerely... Rick

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