Macromedia Captivate for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)

By Tom Green

Macromedia Captivate automatically records various onscreen actions and creates an interactive Flash simulation. Point and click to add text captions, narration, and e-learning interactions without... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0321294173
• ISBN13: 9780321294173
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Peachpit Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Good for quick learning

I had never worked with this program before and this book was a good reference to jumpstart into Captivate.

Received the books on time in good condition

The books reached me in excellent condition and on time. I ordered for the books to be delivered to my daughter's address in Portland, Oregon and she sent it by post-parcel to me to India. It will be very helpful if Alazon explored shipping to India directly. Thank you, Hema Sarathy

The low down on Captivate for Windows

I have been experimenting with Captivate for 3 months (not continuously) to create training programs for our software products. Lets face it, Captivate it isn't all that complicated. If you are competent enough to put together a Power Point presentation then you are competent enough to use Captivate. It is really a fantastic program to create demonstrations or training programs. The problem that I ran into, like many Macromedia programs, is that there are usually little tricks and features that are hidden in the program. This book really outlines not only the basics of Captivate but digs down a little more and explains these hidden features. I looked at several books for this program and some were just too basic, in fact most were just Crayola basic. If you are looking for a book to show you the all the different features of Captivate including creating and editing movies, exporting, creating basic or in-depth presentations then this is completely the book for you. Heck, the book even gets into exporting presentations to work on a PDA....what else do you need? Enjoy!

Outstanding Publication

As Director of Training for a Macromedia Authorized Training Provider, it is my responsibility to review technical publications that relate to the software that we teach. Captivate has so many features that are not easily found by the new user. This book covers a lot of ground quickly to help you begin publishing with Captivate quickly and move on to the advanced features of the software. Job well done!

Best book for Captivate

Although Captivate is a simple program to pick up this book is great if you need the odd tip. I tried the other Captivate books and returned them. I recommend this book.