Hello! I’m pretty new to Captivate and brand new to Video Demo. I’m using it to create training videos for an iOS app.

Hope the Community can help. Thanks in advance.

Here’s the weirdness: I work on a particular segment of the video: I add the iOS gesture and then I back up a bit to add a callout with instruction such as “Tap X”; then, I might back up a bit more and enter a text caption explaining to the learner what she’s about to do or to mention important screen elements. I do this for a series of steps…and then I move closer to the start of the video to find the next screen change — and more or less repeat the steps. I’ve been working backwards in the video because I have already experienced trimming out a segment of video — only to have all the “later” objects lose their timing on the video stream. And it’s not as simple as removing 30 sec of video — and all the objects are “out” by 30 seconds. It’s so random I can’t figure out the pattern. I’ve also had a scenario where I did the previous, aligning the objects to display when a certain screen appears on the video…and then trimming out earlier video — and then discovering that the objects I just created/added/ timed now don’t have the right screen image behind them — and sometimes that screen image is gone — lost when I trimmed.

If someone would explain how video “Offset timing” works, that too, would be helpful. I’ve taken to locking the video track while working on tracks, but if I’m going to trim I’m pretty certain I need to remove that lock. I don’t know if my timing issues are due to some position offset that I’ve caused inadvertently and not noticed.

Hope you can help. I’ve spent hours on minutes of video…and then had that weird situation where I no longer had the right background image behind my objects…