Paul Wilson Paul Wilson

Don't Use Overlays in Your Adobe Captivate Interactive Videos

In this video, I show you an alternative to using overlay slides in your Adobe Captivate Interactive Videos that offers some unique improvements and advantages.

I recently was working with a client whose stakeholder didn’t like the effect of overlays in Adobe Captivate. This tutorial documents what our solution ended up being. We decided not to use overlays slides and went with objects that are placed on the video slide itself. I actually was really happy with the result and may use this in other projects as well.

Download Members and up of my YouTube channel can download the project file associated with this video for free. It includes a solution for building custom knowledge checks that use multiple choice with multiple correct answers.

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Paul Wilson Paul Wilson

Multiple Interactive Video Overlay Slides in Captivate 2019 Update 2

In this video tutorial, I show you how you can now add multiple overlay slides such as knowledge checks to a single point on your Interactive video's timeline.

In this video tutorial, I show you how you can now add multiple overlay slides such as knowledge checks to a single point on your Interactive video's timeline. If you wish to follow along with this tutorial, I merely used the sample project that can be found in the Resources tabs. Remove the existing bookmarks and overlays to follow along with the tutorial or experiment with the feature yourself.

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Paul Wilson Paul Wilson

Drag and Drop as an Interactive Video Overlay

In this video tutorial, I address an issue with drag and drop when used as an interactive video overlay slide.

In this video tutorial, I address an issue with drag and drop when used as an interactive video overlay slide.

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