Not to go all Fellini on you, but I've recently ran into a situation where I am creating a software demo, and on one of the slides recorded I want to have another recorded animation show during that slide. You follow?
For example, let's say we are demonstrating how to save a file in Word, now instead of a standard recording of the mouse clicking file -> save, we want the actual animation of that activity to occur in the center of the screen.
1. Record you slides, in this case, one snapshot of Word would do.
2. Open another instance of Captivate
3. Choose blank recording, custom size, and full motion.
4. Make that magical red captivate box just big enough to record the file menu drop down. And focus it on that area.
5. Record your action.
6. Last step, in the Slide editor click the animation you just recorded and Copy it, now in your main recording choose Paste.
Bingo Bango, a recording on top of a recording!
Note: I've seen some weird transparency issues so you may want to put a white highlight box behind your animation....
Advanced Note: You can even export your recording to flash to make advanced edits on it for some really funky stuff before reinserting it to your main recording as a swf...that's probably a story for another day though.
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