Resizing/Cropping slides with Animation

I have a quick question regarding resizing/cropping slides
that have some type of animation, whether it be mouse, scrolling,
typing, etc. But if I use the resize movie option, and then crop.
say for example, I want to crop off the IE bar at the top and
bottom. it will crop off the bars on normal slides, but any slide
with animation, it will on. I understand the slide is an animation,
but is it possible have Captivate crop those bars off?

Hi Amanda
If you can live with the results, one easy way around this is to insert a Highlight Box object that totally covers what you want to clear away. Configure it with a solid color, no transparency and no border. Then size and position as desired. Then copy from the initial slide and paste onto other slides. (Remember, you are able to multi-select the other slides before you paste).
Then you could Merge into Background to influence the changes.
You might try it with a copy of the project first and see if the results are acceptable to you and the client. It would seem far easier than re-recording or taking other drastic measures.
Cheers... Rick
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Hi everyone,
I am using Captivate 7 and I am experiencing what seems like a bug when I try to import Powerpoint slides that have animation effects and then publish the video as HTML5.
I am using Ppt 2007 and importing the slides as .pptx files using the Import> Ppt slides command in Captivate.
An example of Ppt slide that I need to import is this: in the slide, there are two groups, created by grouping together several objects (lines, shapes etc). One group has a fade effect applied on it, while the other group has a diagonal down right movement applied to it.
When I import the slide in Captivate, the following happens:
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Hi there
As Hyperlinks don't survive the import process, perhaps try removing the links and just applying the desired color in PPT before importing into Captivate?
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One of my slide recorded typing into a textbox. When I played
the demo, it stopped in the middle. There was also a click box in
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Judy
Judy

Hi Judy
I just finished answering a different thread you started. I'm
thinking the information in that thread would apply here as well.
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here to see the other thread.
Cheers... Rick

Bad sound when recording presentation in keynote with animation

When recording audio for a presentation, in a slide with some animated objects the recorded voice explaining the slide sounds crasping or double with lot of noise while the animation is taken place, after the animation the recording it's ok again.

I have it set to 44.1kHz and "4ch-24bit". The only other option for the bit depth is "encoded digital audio".

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Hi!
I'd need some help with my movie:
I'm recording a program that opens multiple windows in
different sizes, some of these are non-resizeable dialog boxes.
What I'd like to do is to always show the current window in
the height of my movie. In the remaining left and right side areas,
I'd like to show a black background.
So basically, the whole thing would look something like this:
Main movie is 800x600 pixels.
I show the application's main window in this size.
Then I launch another window in the application, and instead
of the window's original size (let's say 600x700) I show it resized
to the movie's height.
Is this possible with Captivate?
Thank you!

I don't remember there being a way to resize individual
slides within
Captivate. I usually use PhotoShop or Fireworks for granular
changes like
that.
With no access to PhotoShop or similar, I'd build/scale the
'smaller' slides
in a separate Captivate movie then copy/paste them into the
the 800x600 one.
Steve
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> Hi!
>
> I'd need some help with my movie:
> I'm recording a program that opens multiple windows in
different sizes,
> some
> of these are non-resizeable dialog boxes.
>
> What I'd like to do is to always show the current window
in the height of
> my
> movie. In the remaining left and right side areas, I'd
like to show a
> black
> background.
>
> So basically, the whole thing would look something like
this:
>
> Main movie is 800x600 pixels.
> I show the application's main window in this size.
>
> Then I launch another window in the application, and
instead of the
> window's
> original size (let's say 600x700) I show it resized to
the movie's height.
>
> Is this possible with Captivate?
>
> Thank you!
>

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I've got an application which is trying to set multiple bounds
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My first thought was to use a slider with multiple thumbs. I could
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using multiple sliders right now, and it's functional, but really fugly.
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* TripleSlider_Test.java
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.text.*;
import javax.swing.*;
public class TripleSlider_Test extends JFrame {
    public TripleSlider_Test() {
        setTitle("TripleSlider Test");
        setDefaultCloseOperation(WindowConstants.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        setSize(400,300);
        setLocationRelativeTo(null);
        MyTripleSlider slider = new MyTripleSlider();
        add(slider, BorderLayout.NORTH);
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         * This method is called when the "thumb" of the slider is dragged by
         * the user. Must be overridden to give the slider some behavior.
        public void Motion(){
            // TODO add your handling code here:
* TripleSlider
* Description:     Slider with two thumbs that divide the bar
*   into three parts. Relative size of each part is
*   the value of that part, so the three values add up to 1.
* Author: Gene Vishnevsky Oct. 15, 1997
* This class produces a slider with 2 thumbs that has 3 values.
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    private final static int THUMB_SIZE = 14;
    private final static int BUFFER = 2;
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    private final static int TEXT_BUFFER = 3;
    private final static int DEFAULT_WIDTH = 300; //200;
    private final static int DEFAULT_HEIGHT = 15;
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    protected Color colors[];
    private boolean enabled=true;
    private Dimension preferredSize_;
    /* this value depends on resizing */
    protected int pixMin_, pixMax_, width_;
    private int pix1_, pix2_;               // pixel position of the thumbs
    private double values[];                    // the 3 values
    /** current font of the labels. */
    protected Font font;
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        enabled = flag;
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    public TripleSlider() {
        values = new double[3];
        colors = new Color[3];
        preferredSize_ = new Dimension( DEFAULT_WIDTH,
                DEFAULT_HEIGHT + TEXT_HEIGHT + TEXT_BUFFER );
        font = new Font("TimesRoman", Font.PLAIN, 12);
        pixMax_ = DEFAULT_WIDTH - THUMB_SIZE - 1;
        pixMax_ = DEFAULT_WIDTH - THUMB_SIZE - 1;
        width_ = DEFAULT_WIDTH;
        resize( width_, DEFAULT_HEIGHT + TEXT_HEIGHT /*�+ TEXT_BUFFER*/ );
        setValues( 0.33333, 0.33333 );
        setColor( 0, Color.blue );
        setColor( 1, Color.green );
        setColor( 2, Color.red );
        addMouseListener(new MouseAdapter() {
            public void mousePressed(MouseEvent evt) {
                mouseDown(evt);
        addMouseMotionListener(new MouseMotionAdapter() {
            public void mouseDragged(MouseEvent evt) {
                mouseDrag(evt);
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        colors[part] = color;
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    public void reshape( int x, int y, int width, int height ) {
        // setBounds() is not called.
        super.reshape(x, y, width, height);
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        pixMin_ = THUMB_SIZE;
        pixMax_ = width - THUMB_SIZE - 1;
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        setValues( values[0], values[1], values[2] );
        repaint();
    private void setValues( double a, double b, double c ) {
        // we know the values are valid
        values[0] = a;
        values[1] = b;
        values[2] = c;
        double total = (double)( width_ - THUMB_SIZE * 4 ); // sum
        pix1_ = (int)(a * total) + THUMB_SIZE;
        pix2_ = (int)(b * total) + pix1_ + THUMB_SIZE * 2;
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     * is 1 - a - b.
    public void setValues( double a, double b ) {
        double sum_ab = a + b;
        if( sum_ab > 1. || sum_ab < 0. ) {
            /* invalid input: should throw exception */
            System.out.println("invalid input");
            return;
        /* call this private method */
        setValues( a, b, 1 - sum_ab );
        repaint();
    private void updateValues() {
        double total = (double)( width_ - THUMB_SIZE * 4 ); // sum
        int a = pix1_ - THUMB_SIZE;
        int b = pix2_ - pix1_ - THUMB_SIZE * 2;
        int c = width_ - (pix2_ + THUMB_SIZE);
        values[0] = (double)a / total;
        values[1] = (double)b / total;
        values[2] = (double)c / total;
     * Returns value for a part.
     * @return value for the part.
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        return values[part];
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     * the user. Must be overridden to give the slider some behavior.
    public void Motion() {
     * Paints the whole slider and labels.
    public void paint( Graphics g ) {
        int width = size().width;
        int height = size().height;
        g.setColor( Color.lightGray );          // bground
        g.fillRect( 0, 0, width, TEXT_HEIGHT );
        g.setColor( colors[0] );
        g.fillRect( 0, TEXT_HEIGHT,
                pix1_ - THUMB_SIZE, height - TEXT_HEIGHT );
        g.setColor( colors[1] );
        g.fillRect( pix1_ + THUMB_SIZE, TEXT_HEIGHT,
                pix2_ - pix1_ - THUMB_SIZE * 2, height - TEXT_HEIGHT );
        g.setColor( colors[2] );
        g.fillRect( pix2_ + THUMB_SIZE, TEXT_HEIGHT,
                width_ - pix2_ - THUMB_SIZE, height - TEXT_HEIGHT );
        /* draw two thumbs */
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        g.fill3DRect( pix1_ - THUMB_SIZE, TEXT_HEIGHT /*+ BUFFER*/,
                THUMB_SIZE * 2 + 1, height /*- 2 * BUFFER*/ - TEXT_HEIGHT,
                true);
        g.fill3DRect( pix2_ - THUMB_SIZE, TEXT_HEIGHT /*+ BUFFER*/,
                THUMB_SIZE * 2 + 1, height /*- 2 * BUFFER*/ - TEXT_HEIGHT,
                true);
        g.setColor( Color.black );
        g.drawLine(pix1_, TEXT_HEIGHT + BUFFER + 1,
                pix1_, height - 2 * BUFFER);
        g.drawLine(pix2_, TEXT_HEIGHT + BUFFER + 1,
                pix2_, height - 2 * BUFFER);
        g.setFont(font);
        // center each value in the middle
        String str = render( getValue(0) );
        g.drawString(str,
                pix1_ / 2 - (int)(getFontMetrics(font).stringWidth(str) / 2),
                TEXT_HEIGHT - TEXT_BUFFER);
        str = render( getValue(1) );
        g.drawString(str,
                (pix2_ - pix1_ ) / 2 + pix1_ -
                (int)(getFontMetrics(font).stringWidth(str) / 2),
                TEXT_HEIGHT - TEXT_BUFFER);
        str = render( getValue(2) );
        g.drawString(str,
                (width_ - pix2_ ) / 2 + pix2_ -
                (int)(getFontMetrics(font).stringWidth(str) / 2),
                TEXT_HEIGHT - TEXT_BUFFER);
    private String render(double value){
        DecimalFormat myF = new DecimalFormat("###,###,###.#");
        return myF.format(value);
     * An internal method used to handle mouse down events.
    private void mouseDown(MouseEvent e) {
        if( enabled ) {
            HandleMouse((int)e.getPoint().getX());
            Motion();
     * An internal method used to handle mouse drag events.
    private void mouseDrag(MouseEvent e) {
        if( enabled ) {
            HandleMouse((int)e.getPoint().getX());
            Motion();
     * Does all the recalculations related to user interaction with
     * the slider.
    protected void HandleMouse(int x) {
        boolean leftControl = false;
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        int xmax = width_ - THUMB_SIZE;
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        if( x < (pix1_ + (pix2_ - pix1_) / 2 ) ) {
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        } else {
            right = x;
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                left = xmin;
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                left = xmax - THUMB_SIZE*2;
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                    right = left + THUMB_SIZE * 2;
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                right = xmax;
            } else if( right < (xmin + THUMB_SIZE*2) ) {
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        updateValues();
        repaint();
     * Overrides the default update(Graphics) method
     * in order not to clear screen to avoid flicker.
    public void update( Graphics g ) {
        paint( g );
     * Overrides the default preferredSize() method.
     * @return new Dimension
    public Dimension preferredSize() {
        return preferredSize_;
     * Overrides the default minimumSize() method.
     * @return new Dimension
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Reset Slide with Audio on Enter CP7 HTML5

I have a slide with some audio and animation (captions fading in and out) on the timeline that is triggered by a play/pause button with some Advanced Actions attached to it to toggle the buttons and resume and pause the timeline.
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The result I wanted was a total reset of the slide, essentially for the play button to be visible each time and for the audio/animation to be restored to their original states. This has now been achieved thanks to your guidance.
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Is it possible to crop video with Compressor, the same way you crop images with Photoshop? Can I specify the exact size I want (200x100)? If so, how is this done?
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