# Key features of Captivate

Following is a list of key Captivate features.

- Fast and simple movie recording: Captivate makes it easy to record onscreen action and create a Captivate SWF file. Just start Captivate and press the Print Screen button on your keyboard (or another key that you select). Perform the actions to record, and when you are finished, press the End button on your keyboard. The action is recorded in a Captivate SWF file.

- Quick and easy movie editing: After you have captured screen shots for a movie, you can easily enhance them. The screen shots become "slides" within the movie. Double-clicking on a slide enables you to preview and edit it. Slide options are countless. You can change captured mouse pointer movements, record audio, add animated text, create captions and callouts, and add click boxes, text boxes, and rollovers for interactivity.

- Captions: You can add customizable captions to movie slides. Captions can contain background images and special effects (such as fade in or fade out). You can also specify fonts, font size, and font colors for captions. Captivate even enables automatic caption creation.

- Images: You can add images to your movie slides for extra emphasis, visual interest, or as a navigation tool. You can also use images for splash screens or logos. You can even add transparent images to use as watermarks.

- Audio: Captivate allows you to add narration, soundtrack, or audio special effects to your movies. You can record your own sounds with a microphone or import existing sounds (WAV and MP3 files).

- Multiple file import: You can leverage existing projects by importing PowerPoint or AVI files into Captivate.

- Extensive file export: You can export Captivate movies to a variety of formats, including the following: a Flash movie (SWF), an e-mail attachment, or an EXE file. You can also choose to upload the movie to a website via FTP. You can export only the captions contained in a movie or export to a Microsoft Word file to create printed handouts. You can even export Captivate movies for FlashMX.

- Movie previewing: Captivate lets you do a quick test of your movie by clicking the Preview button.

- Streaming or CD ready: You can create movies to stream over low bandwidth Internet connections or distribute on CD. The files contain customized resolutions up to 1024 x 768 pixels. Files can even be viewed on a Pocket PC.

- Menu page: You can create an interactive menu page that contains related Captivate movies, as well as links to other files. Working with the integrated templates, you can easily design and customize your menu page, with no programming required.