FPS in Captivate 5

Hi,
I am working on Captivate5 , I want to increase the speed of captivate movie FPS (frame per second).which is default is 30 in Edit > Preferences >Project>Publish Settings.I tried to increase the FPS but can't increase more then 50 FPS. Is there any way to increase the FPS,or any Widget in AS3?

That is what I mostly explain when teaching Software tutorials with Captivate. It is a quick way to create a Show me, Try, Test me combination. You just add a 'menu' slide with branching to the three parts.
Lilybiri

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