Problem with gradients

Hello,
I am having a problem with gradients in a Captivate 2
project. I have a lot of images in a presentation that use
gradients. Once the movie is published, the gradients are looking
very banded. It almost looks like the images are being converted to
gif's. I have also noticed this with photos that have a lot of
colors in them. I set the jpg quality to 100%, but that didn't seem
to have any effect.
Is there a settings I am missing? Any help with this would be
greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
- Jason

Hi Jason
Normally, we suggest that folks remove gradients from window
title bars. However, assuming you know this and it's your
application that is displaying the gradient (for example, an image
inside Microsoft Paint) you might try looking in the following
places and tweaking as necessary:
* Slide Properties - Slide Tab - Quality drop-down.
* Project > Preferences... > Preferences tab > JPEG
image quality
* If this is a full motion video clip where you see a
camcorder icon on the Film Strip - Options > Recording
Options... > Full Motion Recording tab > Video color mode
Cheers... Rick

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