Preparing the application to record

For this exercise, the application you will record is Adobe Media Encoder CC 2018. This application is used to convert video and audio files into a wide range of formats. Adobe Media Encoder (AME) is included in the standard Captivate package; if you have Captivate (even the trial version) installed on your machine, you also have AME.

First, you will open AME by performing the following steps:

1. Open Captivate. If Captivate is already open, close all the open files.
2. Open AME. On Mac, it is in the /Applications/Adobe Media Encoder CC 2018 folder. On Windows, a shortcut to AME should be available in the Start menu.

When AME opens, make sure it looks like what's shown in the following screenshot:

This exercise and the screenshots are based on Adobe Media Encoder CC 2018, which is the version that was installed with Adobe Captivate 2019, but it also works with Adobe Media Encoder CC 2019, which is a part of Creative Cloud.