Add slides to an Adobe Captivate Classic project

Adobe Captivate Classic offers a wide variety of options for adding slides to a project, including recording, importing, and copying. You can add different types of slides such as blank, image, quiz, or animation.

There may be cases in which you record an Adobe Captivate Classic project and begin working at the slide level, only to realize that you need to record a few more slides. In this case, you probably don't want to rerecord the entire project but just a few actions. Adobe Captivate Classic allows you to do this by recording new slides and inserting the slides in an existing project. For more information, see Record additional slides for existing projects.

Copy slides from other projects

Enable rescaling of slides during import

Adobe Captivate Classic can automatically resize the content of imported slides according to the dimensions of the project to which the slide is being imported.

1. Select Edit > Preferences (Windows) or Adobe Captivate Classic > Preferences (Mac OS).

2. Select General Settings from the Global menu.

3. Select Rescale Imported/Pasted slide.

Duplicate slides

Duplicating slides is an easy way to expand your projects. For example, if you carefully design a slide with a certain background color, layout, caption, and highlight box, you can simply duplicate that slide and change some of the elements or text to add more information to your project.

To select multiple slides, press Shift or Control on the keyboard while clicking the desired slides. To select all slides, right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) on a slide and select Select All Slides.

The slide or slides you selected are duplicated and placed in the project. You can edit and work with the new slides just like the original slides.

Insert blank slides

The new slide is added to your project. You can edit and work with the new slide just like other slides in the project.

Insert new or stencil slides

‘Stencil’ slides are those that inherit the master slide associated with the slide that you select.

A new ‘stencil’ slide appears in the Filmstrip. You can edit the slide as required. You can also associate a different master slide using the Property Inspector (General > Master Slide list).

Insert images as slides

Image slides are slides that have an image inserted into their background.

Insert slides from a PowerPoint presentation

You can add PowerPoint slides to the end of a project or within a project.

Insert animation slides

You can insert a SWF, AVI, or animated GIF file as a new slide.

It is important to set the correct frame rate. All imported animation files play at the rate selected in the project Preferences dialog box, regardless of the rate prior to when the file is imported. The default setting is 30 Flash frames per second and is appropriate in most cases. You may need to change the rate if you are embedding your Adobe Captivate Classic SWF file in another SWF file that has a frame rate different than 30.

When you create an animation slide, the amount of time the slide is displayed in the project automatically defaults to the length of the animation file itself. For example, if the animation file that you use to create a new animation slide is only 1.2 seconds in length, the animation slide appears for 1.2 seconds. To change the duration of the slide, click the slide in the Filmstrip, and in the Property inspector, enter a new number of seconds in Display Time. Or use the Timeline to change the slide display time.