Software simulation video placed in several slides

Using Captivate 5.5.
I'm recording a software simulation video from screen, but Captivate 5.5 places the video in three slides. How can I put the whole video in one slide only? Thank you.

Puzzling: Recording mode is set to Demonstration, that is not FMR. If you turn on Full Motion recording the options to choose a mode are dimmed. Correct?
What do you see on the slides: only the slide timeine with a red bar in the axis? Then it is a video, Full Motion Recording. If you see objects on the timeline besides the slide timeline, you did an Automatic Capture. Certainly in 5.5 I wouldn never recommend FMR, the Automatic capture offers not only better quality but is much easier to edit.
Even if it is FMR, the user will not really see that it is over more than one slide. As you can suspect, I never used 5.5 for pure FMR (used Camtasia at that moment, now in 6-7 I use the HD Video Demo). For that reason I cannot answer you why it spread the FMR over multiple slides, maybe because it is too long?
If you want to do more FMR, to have more or less an acceptable quality, be sure to set the Recording mode to 32-bit.
Lilybiri

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