From the course: Captivate: Advanced Techniques

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Adding zooming, panning, and objects

Adding zooming, panning, and objects - Captivate Tutorial

From the course: Captivate: Advanced Techniques

Adding zooming, panning, and objects

- Zooming and panning for a Captivate video project does very much what you'd probably expect. You can zoom the viewer in closer to the action and pan around to change the area of the screen that the learner sees. To demonstrate, I'm going to make sure I'm in my video demo project that we recorded previously. I'm going to open the pan and zoom panel. You can get to it by opening the window menu and then pan and zoom. So I can move my red play head anywhere on the timeline by clicking. I can drag as well to see what's going on in the video. At just past six seconds, the video shows the mouse clicking on the incandescent to CFL comparison chart link. I'll scroll down just a little bit so you can see that. Then the chart comes up, but it's pretty big. I want to zoom in to the section where the up to 13 watts text displays. So I'm going to position my mouse at about 6 1/2 seconds on the timeline, then I'm going to click the add pan and zoom button in the pan and zoom panel. You can see an…

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