Publish a Captivate project for screen in movie theater

Hi,
I was asked to develop a software demo animation (approximately 3min) that will eventually be viewed on a big screen in a movie theater.
Of course the aim is to have a perfect image quality as possible.
Is Captivate a good medium to create such a project?
The output I would like to use is an .mp4 video format. But are there any important settings I should activate with that output?
I have already noticed that the maximum Captivate project size is 1280x720. When I go beyond that, it all goes wrong.
What should be the screenshot resolution and the dpi value to use so that the image quality of the screenshots when viewed on the movie screen is flawless?
Thanx!

Hi,
You can publish to either as .mp4 (Go to publish >Media >Mp4 ) or .swf from Captivate 7. In presenter 9 you do have an option to either import .swf or .mp4 files. See the image below to import these two formats in presenter:
Regards,
Mayank

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Hi,
You can publish to either as .mp4 (Go to publish >Media >Mp4 ) or .swf from Captivate 7. In presenter 9 you do have an option to either import .swf or .mp4 files. See the image below to import these two formats in presenter:
Regards,
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