Question
Hi Fellow Captivaters
I am very new to this, converting from being a classroom trainer.
I have probably a simple question> When you have done a video capture is there any way of resizing the capture, cutting it and pasting into another slide?
Or
Is there some other way of grabbing a video that is editable.
Thanks
Bill, I recommend to use another video editor like premier pro or wondersharefilmora, also recommend OBS studio, its good whent it comes to make a videoscreen recorder. because captive is not good when youre editing video but once you have the video you need, captivate is perfect for gathering you video together with the rest of the information. You can contact me if you wnat to look further. 🙂
Capture videos are usually record as an SWF file (yeah I know, flash movie, as long as you keep it internal to your Captivate project and not in export files, you’ll have no issue) with files “Fullmotionx_y.swf (x and y are integers) and set as a slide background.
If you want to move it to another slide, just set it as the Project background of the destination slide. You can also drag it from the library and put it on the slide as an object.
Hope you wouldn’t mind my reaction (as some do). However your sentence ‘Capture videos are usually record as an SWF file’ is wrong. You seem to be confused by the fact that individual Full Motion Recording slides in a software simulation originally are SWF-based, but they are converted to MP4 on publishing. However Video Demo, which is the way to capture video, has NEVER used SWF nor FLV (which was the Flash Video) but always publishes natively to MP4. A FMR slide should be avoided whenever possible as I have been writing since years. I always replace it by a Video Demo slide to avoid possible errors when converting to mp4 on publish.
If this question is really about captured video, which has not been confirmed, your answer may confuse the OP.
Thanks for the info
Not so simple, because some details are lacking. Are you talking about capturing using the Video Demo functionality of Captivate? Or do you talk about software simulations which is also a capture workflow?
Or are you talking about a mp4 file which is a compressed video format, created with any other application?
You do not want to distort the width/height ratio of any video. You can rescale the video in Captivate while keeping the width/height ratio, but know that this may lead to quality loss.
Cut and paste? Not sure to understand this neither, linked with my first questions. A Video Demo slide can be captured inside of a normal cptx-project (using the Slides button) or can be inserted as raw cpvc-slide using the Insert menu. If it is a published mp4 video you can insert it as slide video or event video.
Grabbing a video? From what? Coming back to my first questions. In this case you probably mean an existing video? You can use (if allowed!!!) a YouTube or Vimeo video, eventually to convert it into an interactive video. Editing? You may need a real video editor like Premiere Pro if you are not talking about a captured video in Captivate (Video Demo or Software simulation).
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