Choosing the right resolution for the project

Choosing the right resolution for capturing the slides is the first critical decision you have to make. You have to make it right because the size of the captured slides will play a critical role in the quality of the final movie.

Describing the problem

A typical Captivate project, such as the Encoder demonstration you experienced in Chapter 1, Getting Started with Adobe Captivate 8, involves taking screenshots of an actual piece of software. At the end of the process, the project will typically be published in Flash or HTML5 and placed on a web page. Most of the time, that web page displays many other page elements (such as logos, headers, footers, navigation bars, and so on) in addition to incorporating your Captivate movie. This can lead to a very delicate situation, as shown in the following image:

The preceding image shows the application you need to capture on the left. Let's pretend this application requires a minimal width of 1024 pixels...