Output image quality

Hi all,
I'm importing screen captures into Captivate as 24bit BMPs
and they look fine within the program. When I view the output the
images become totally banded and very low quality. They look like
indexed color GIFs. Can anyone explain what may be
happening?

Hi zumanu and welcome to our community
Assuming you are viewing your output at the same size you
recorded it, you might try the following:
Click Project > Preferences... > Preferences tab and
adjust the JPEG image quality value.
If that doesn't help, see if changing the properties of a few
slides makes a difference. From the Slide Properties dialog at the
Slide tab, click the Drop-down labeled "Quality" and adjust to a
higher quality setting.
Hope this helps some... Rick

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