FRAME AROUND A CAPTIVATE MOVIE

Hi, I've been asked to produce a number of training movies in
Captivate for my client to put on a VLE. So far the subjects (from
beginner to advanced) are Word, Excel, PowerPoint and SharePoint.
While I find Captivate easy enough, I'd like to have a themed
"frame" around each movie. I'm shooting in 800 x
600 and the frame could sit around all four sides with the control
bar at the bottom, a couple of narrow sides and the topic &
a bit of artwork in the top border.
I'm good in all the graphics packages, but if coding is the
only solution send it anyway and I'll get our techies to look at
it.
Many thanks.

Hi ploughman1
You might wish to simply try using one of the skins supplied
with Captivate. (Project * Skin * Borders tab) There are many
background patterns already supplied by Captivate, and of course
you are welcome to create your own if you aren't totally pleased
with what you see there.
I've got a *Border Chooser* Captivate movie I have uploaded
to the Captivate Exchange that you may be interested in. I'll try
and place a link here, but I'm not optimistic since the last forum
upgrade.
Click here to
visit the Exchange
Cheers... Rick

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Hi all
In addition to fellow ACE Steve's good advice, note that you
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Hi all,
First of all I apologise in advance if this has been asked before on this Forum
but I view this as a serious problem in this project that I am working on and I
have not yet found a sufficient answer on this forum plus I have a tight deadline
to adher to.
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So, therefore is a realistic limit on the number of slides you could have in Captivate
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Hi,
Could you pls. share your project with me so that we can investigate? You can upload the project at http://share.acrobat.com and my email id is [email protected]
Thanks,
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http://blogs.adobe.com/captivate

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Hi,
I am trying to use Flash methods to control a captivate movie
using procedures documented in the support center article:
http://www.adobe.com/support/flash/publishexport/scriptingwithflash/scriptingwithflash_03. html
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movie.StopPlay();
Captivate1 is the object ID assigned by Captivate when it
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I have created my own Flash movie and the StopPlay command
works with it.
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Captivate SWFs don't respond like other Flash movies. You can
use similar techniques, but must use some specific, legacy "control
variables" that are hanging around since the RoboDemo days:
To pause a movie, use rdcmndPause = 1;
A good place to find more details is here:
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Doug

Doug
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or
Did you export using File Menu/Export/Movie? If so, same request for details.
I suspect the answer(s) are in those settings.
With regard to
A perhaps separate, perhaps related question: I have about 32 minutes of interview material, nothing else (no titles, soundtracks or additional material), and the size of the file is over 7 GBs. Does that sound right? (The camera IS on DV, not HDV; I just double checked.)
My recollection is DV data is 13 GB/hour. If I have not messed up on the interpretation, what you have for about 30 minutes sounds about right.
Looking forward to your follow up.
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Exporting a Captivate Movie into Flash 8

I am trying to export my Captivate movie using Flash Pro 8,
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Hi mindtube and welcome to our community
I am inferring from your question that you may think Adobe
employees are monitoring this forum. While we might see one or two
pop in here and there, by and large this is a total "user-to-user"
community. I'm a Captivate user same as you. So you might want to
post your question to support using the link at the bottom of this
page. Either that, or via the WishForm linked below:
Click
here to visit the WishForm
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Hi Guys,
I'm going insane trying to work out how to trigger an
actionscript event from the last slide of my Captivate movie.
Basically I'm doing a product walk through which I am exporting as
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I need to be able to detect when the externally loaded
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I have tried adding a swf in Captivate with actionscript to
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contained an animated background and one line of actionscript, and
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(one just for graphics, one just for actionscript), it worked! go
figure.
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Repositioning an image or movie in a drop zone
When you drag a picture or movie into a drop zone, the aspect ratio of the image is preserved, but it is scaled larger or smaller to fill the drop zone. As a result, sometimes part of the image is cut off and does not appear in the drop zone. In this case, you can move the image to choose which portion is visible in the drop zone.
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If you drag a wide image to a drop zone, the image is scaled horizontally, and you can move the image side to side only.
If you accidentally drag the image too far, you will remove it from the drop zone. (The cursor changes from a hand to a puff of smoke.) Choose Edit > Undo to restore the image to the drop zone.
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Hello
I have a movie clip (saved as a .mov file) and I have noticed that it plays with a black frame around it whether I play it on the desktop (WMP) or on a DVD. The original VHS (C) tape fills the whole TV screen (there is no black frame) and I wondered how I may remove the black frame.
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Publish+Share
Computer
QuickTime
have Presets = PAL DV
under the Advanced Button/Video Tab set
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Frame Height = 576 pixels
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Aspect = Square Pixels (1.0)
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Thank you.
Steve

Hello ATR
Thanks for coming back to me.
This is wahat you posted:
Steve
If you can get PAL footage for your .mov fine. If not, and you are left with the NTSC counterpart, here is the plan (grand plan or dud). Let us see
Import your 640 x 480 @ 30 frames per second into Premiere Elements with the NTSC DV Standard project preset (you will probably have to set the project preset yourself manually before you import the file...to do that File Menu/New/Project, change the project preset to NTSC DV Standard, and, before exiting the new project dialog, make sure that you have a check mark next to "Force Selected Project Setting on This Project". Then import your file with Add Media/Project Assets.
In Project Assets, right click the thumbnail for the file there and select Interpret Footage. In the Frame Rate section of the Interpret Footage dialog, dot "Assume this frame rate" and fill in 25.00. Leave the rest as is which should be with Pixel Aspect Ratio = Square Pixels (1.0).
When you are ready to export, give the following a try:
Publish+Share
Computer
QuickTime
have Presets = PAL DV
under the Advanced Button/Video Tab set
Video Codec = H.264
Frame Width = 768 pixels
Frame Height = 576 pixels
Frame Rate = 25 frames per second
Field Type = Progressive
Aspect = Square Pixels (1.0)
For now leave everything else as is.
At playback, check the quality of the video and audio as well as flow of the motion.
We will be watching for your results.
Thank you.
ATR
Is that what you mean?
Steve

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