# Welcome to Captivate

Macromedia Captivate is a professional software tool for quickly creating interactive demonstrations and simulations in Flash SWF format. Anyone who needs to develop online product demos, software simulations for e-learning, or online tutorials for user support will find Captivate an ideal solution. Included in Captivate is everything you need to record actions in any application and instantly create a simulation.

Captivate enables you to add customized text captions, audio (voice-overs, background music, and sound effects), video, Flash animations, text animations, images, hyperlinks, and more to your movies. A small file size and high resolution make Captivate simulations and demos easy to publish online or burn to CD for use in training, sales, marketing, or user support.

If you use Captivate to create e-learning content, you can add realistic, fully interactive question slides, buttons, click boxes, and text entry boxes. Captivate is SCORM 1.2 certified and AICC compliant, allowing effortless integration with any Learning Management System (LMS), Macromedia Authorware, or Questionmark Perception.

### Where do I go from here?

Read Basic steps for using Captivate to obtain a quick plan for creating a demo.

Read About the work environment for an orientation to the Captivate user interface.

If you are an experienced Captivate user, you may want to see What's new in Captivate.

Copyrights and trademarks

### COPYRIGHTS

Copyright (c) 2001 - 2004 Macromedia, Inc. and its licensors. All rights reserved. Macromedia, the Macromedia logo, and Captivate are trademarks or registered trademarks of Macromedia, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. Other marks are the properties of their respective owners.

Information in this document is subject to change without notice. The software described in this document is furnished under a license agreement or nondisclosure agreement. The software may be used or copied only in accordance with the terms of those agreements. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or any means electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording for any purpose other than the purchaser's personal use without the written permission of eHelp Corporation.

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THIRD-PARTY COPYRIGHTS

- This software is based in part on the work of the Independent JPEG Group.

- LAME (MP3 encoder) Supply of this product does not convey a license nor imply any right to distribute content created with this product in revenue-generating broadcast systems (terrestrial, satellite, cable and/or other distribution channels), streaming applications (via Internet, intranets and/or other networks), other content distribution systems (pay-audio or audio-on-demand application sand the like) or on physical media (compact discs, digital versatile discs, semiconductor chips, hard drives, memory cards and the like. An independent license for such use is required. For details, please visit: http://mp3licensing.com.

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