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Is it possible to create a Ken Burns type effect on a video in Captivate. Here’s what I’m trying to achieve. I am trying to create a software simulation where I can zoom into a section of the screen, pan to another section of the screen, zoom in a little further before finally zooming out. I can’t find a way of doing this as every time you add a pan & zoom effect in Captivate, it resets the screen back to full size before enacting the effect.
Also I want to stay zoomed in to a section across several slides whilst the learner interacts with objects and, depending on their button interaction, would branch them off to a different slide, but still with the same background (although the video that plays would be different, e.g. a different drop down menu item).
Again this is not apparently possible as the next slide would reset to full screen before enacting any zoom. Is this possible? I know it can be done on another e-Learning package or possibly by taking the video into Premiere, but then I would have other issues to contend with.
OK, understanding that C2019 has a bug in the software, as detailed below, is part of the issue, but it still doesn’t resolve my initial enquiry.
Since I am trying to create a software simulation for the purposes of training, I require user interaction. I also need to be able to zoom into a section of the screen, pan to another section of the screen, zoom in a little further before finally zooming out, all this across multiple slides. Despite experimenting with a number of different features within C2019, I still cannot find a way of doing this.
I can’t use a .cpvc project as there is no user interaction that can be added to the timeline. Only passive objects can be added.
I tried importing the CPVC slide into a .cptx project using the Insert>CPVC Slide… function, but this doesn’t work as i) it puts the video on a single slide and ii) the project itself will be 1920×1080, to accommodate the monitors that are being used, but the screen capture of the software simulation will be smaller (currently 1110×534) which I intended to enlarge on the stage to just over 1.7x to give the working software area as 1920×923, giving a letterbox effect on the stage and therefore allowing for additional branding to be added to the top/bottom of the stage which is not part of the originally recorded software emulation; However, once the video is inserted as a .cpvc slide into the .cptx project, the image on screen is centred top and bottom at its original image resolution and cannot be resized 1.7x to fill out the screen.
I have exported the .cpvc project as an MP4 after applying the required zoom effects and imported that into a project across multiple slides using Media>Video>Slide Video>From your Computer and selecting ‘Distribute video across slides’, but this defaults the slide length to whatever the project default slide length is (not unexpected) and again the video is centred in the middle of the screen and set with its size back to 1110×534. This is probably the closest so far except i) the timing of every slide needs to be reset to the duration of the video interact, which can range from .1 sec to approx 6 secs, depending on what is going on, ii) every video on the slides has to be resized to 1920×923 and iii) most importantly, there is no interaction on these slides, so all the interaction has to be built manually…. no small undertaking!!!.
I have also tried the Ojects>Zoom Area, on a non-zoomed version of the video, so that I can first capture the interactions, then using the Zoom Area capability try and achieve the desired result. However, i) the image on the stage always shows the first frame of the recorded video, regardless of what frame it is on, so it is impossible to add interactions as you can’t tell where to put them (scrolling the Timeline also always shows the very first frame and the video is only active when the play button on the Timeline is pressed) and ii) the zoom function cannot be carried across multiple frames, so if you are zoomed in on the last frame of a slide, you can’t set the duration of the zoom on the next slide to be 0.0 secs, it always defaults to 0.1sec (note this is not the same as the bug in the video editing pan & zoom section of a .cpvc project in C2019 reported in this post).
Is there a way to record all the screen interactions that would occur if I used a simulation project, but where I could zoom in and out like you can with the video editing aspect of a .cpvc project???
This should be a simple function to implement, but it does not appear to be a feature of Captivate.
Further update: If you create a recording in C2017 then open it is 2019, it will work perfectly, even adding in extra trim points and making them 0-sec duration, they can still be moved right up to the cut point. So the issue appears to be only with recordings created and edited in C2019, not with the editing function themselves if used with recordings from earlier versions.
Update: Decided to try to see if the same issue existed in C2017. It does not and works exactly as I expected it to. Conclusion….it is a bug in 2019!!!! Be warned (applies to 64 bit Ver 11.0.1.266)
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