# Resizing movies

You can resize Captivate movies, even after you have recorded them. This can be very useful and can save you from having to re-record an entire movie. For example, you may have recorded your movie at a width of 640 and height of 480, but then decided you needed a slightly smaller or larger size.

Notes:
Resizing a movie cannot be "undone" using a toolbar button or key combination such as Control+Z.
Resizing a movie numerous times can result in quality deterioration. If possible, try to only resize a movie once.

#### To resize a movie:

1. Open a Captivate movie.

2. From the Movie menu, select Resize Movie.

3. Under Size, enter an exact custom size in Width and Height (minimum size 100 x 100) or enter a percentage for Width and Height with the current size being 100% (e.g., to make the movie slightly bigger, enter 110% or to make the movie much smaller, enter 50%). Alternatively, you can select the Preset size option and choose a commonly used size, such as 640 x 480, from the pop-up menu.

If desired, select the Maintain aspect ratio option, which maintains the height and width proportions when the image is resized. This assures that the image displays accurately and is not distorted.

4. You have different options depending on whether the new size you specified is larger or smaller than the original size.

If the new size is larger:

- Rescale movie to fit new size: This option resizes the entire movie to the new larger size you specified. To also rescale any objects in the movie, select the Rescale captions, highlight boxes, and other objects option.

- Keep movie the same size and fill background with color: This option keeps the movie the same size, but creates a background for the movie the size that you specified above. For example, if your original movie is 550 x 400 pixels and you set the new size as 640 x 480, this option keeps the movie at 550 x 400 and creates extra space around the movie of 90 x 80. You can select any Background color and can choose a Position for the movie on the background such as center or top right.

- Rescale captions, highlight boxes, and other objects: Select this option to have Captivate automatically rescale all objects in your movie such as captions, highlight boxes, click boxes, and text entry boxes to the new, larger size.

If the new size is smaller:

- Rescale: This option resizes and resamples the movie to provide a good quality movie. To also rescale any objects in the movie, select the Rescale captions, highlight boxes, and other objects option.

- Crop: This option crops the movie to the new size. If any background space appears after cropping, you can select a specific color for the background by clicking Crop fill color. If you select the crop option, click Next to open the Crop Area dialog box where you can define a crop area.

  You can define a different crop area for each slide or define one crop area for all slides.

  - To define different crop areas for each slide, use the left-arrow and right-arrow buttons, or the Slide drop-down list, to navigate to all of the slides in the movie. For each slide click on the floating crop window and position it directly over the area of the slide you want to retain.

  - To define one crop area and apply it to all slides in the movie, navigate to any slide, click on the floating crop window, position it over the area you want to retain, and then click Apply to all slides button.

Note: Only slides based on images, not SWF files, are displayed in the Crop Area dialog box for manual resizing. Slides based on SWF files are automatically cropped to best fit the new defined size.

Slides based on images include:

- Image slides

- Colored slides

- Blank slides

Slides based on SWF files include:

- Text animation slides

- Quiz slides

- FLA slides

- Animation slides

- PowerPoint slides

- Rescale captions, highlight boxes, and other objects: Select this option to have Captivate automatically rescale all objects in your movie such as captions, highlight boxes, click boxes, and text entry boxes to the new, smaller size.

5. Click Finish.

Your movie is resized according to your choices.