Is Adobe Captivate for me?

Hello,
I came across Adobe Captivate and the eLearning Suite while looking for screen capture video software. I don't know if this is going to serve my purpose and that is my question.
What I would like to do is create tutorial videos through screen capture and video recording. For instance, I might record how to install a sound card into a PC, then I might want to record my screen as I show how to check for the latest Drivers, I want to be able to talk the user through this as I go of course.
So is this software what I am looking for? Can it do all this, or would I be better off with something else?
if Anyone has rich examples of this software doing something close I would love to see them! After all, seeing is believing.
Thanks in advance!

Hello,
My 2cents. For the software training, Captivate is indeed for me personally the best app around, and I have been trying a lot (Camtasia, Smartbuilder, Viewletbuilder...).
Of course you have to record the video (that is not possible with Captivate) with a video-recorder. In CP5 importing the video (Adobe Media Encoder will be automatically used for converting if it is not flv) and working with it has become really great. You can spread the video over different slides, readjust the timings, resize, insert Text Captions on the slides with video, add Question slides, audio ...
Would recommend to go for the eLearning suite if budget allows it, because besides Captivate you will have some other great apps (Flash, Photoshop, Soundbooth, Dreamweaver, Acrobat Pro,...) and moreover very nice roundtripping to Photoshop and Soundbooth.
Lilybiri

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I have done stuff with Authorware/Flex/CP. Here's my take:
- Simple Animation explaining a Math problem:
YES
- Interaction with User when Needed: I don't understand what you mean ?
If you mean like drag/drops, hotspots ...etc ...then...YES, SOMEWHAT. Hotspots are very basic. Drag/Drop...you can build/buy widget to do this...buying has its limitations.
- Able to track Student on where they're reached:
YES.
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MAY BE...if have an LMS and your mobile device supports FLASH....so forget about i-Devices.
- Quizes
I dont like the default quiz slides in CP at all. They are very convoluted and too many buttons to do simple things. It's better to build your own quiz templates or use different tools for this.
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I also applied the steps above and had no luck.
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