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Mastering Adobe Captivate 2019

You're reading from   Mastering Adobe Captivate 2019 Build cutting edge professional SCORM compliant and interactive eLearning content with Adobe Captivate

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789803051
Length 770 pages
Edition 5th Edition
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Dr. Pooja Jaisingh Dr. Pooja Jaisingh
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Damien Bruyndonckx Damien Bruyndonckx
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Adobe Captivate 2019 FREE CHAPTER 2. Working with Standard Objects 3. Working with Multimedia 4. Working with the Timeline and Other Useful Tools 5. Developing Interactivity 6. Crafting the Graphical Experience with Styles and Themes 7. Working with Quizzes 8. Capturing Onscreen Action 9. Producing a Video Demo 10. Creating a Responsive Project 11. Creating Virtual Reality Projects 12. Using Captivate with Other Applications 13. Creating Accessible eLearning 14. Variables and Advanced Actions 15. Finishing Touches and Publishing 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Adding background music to the entire project

In this section, you will associate an audio clip with the entire project. Usually, project level audio is used to add background music, but nothing prevents you from adding other types of audio content at that level. To make sure that the music plays during the entire project, you will use a 15 to 30 second sound clip (called a sample) and make it loop for the duration of the course.

In the next exercise, you will add background music to the Take the Train project:

  1. If needed, return to the Chapter03/takeTheTrain.cptx file.
  2. Use the Audio | Import To | Background menu item.
  3. Choose the Loop Acoustic.mp3 file from the /Sound directory of the Captivate Gallery and click Open.
  4. The Background Audio dialog opens.

The Background Audio dialog informs you that the duration of the loop Acoustic.mp3 sound clip is 16 seconds (see the arrow in the following screenshot):

Some interesting options are located in the lower part of the Background Audio dialog...

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