The inner working of the Captivate capture engine

The Captivate capture engine is based on static screenshots. Going back to the Adobe Media Encoder project, let's review what exactly happened when you clicked your mouse during the capture using the following steps:

1. Return to the Chapter02/encoderDemo_1_1024.cptx file.

2. Make sure that the first slide is selected in the Filmstrip panel.

The first slide shows the initial state of the application. When recording, you used your mouse to click on the Add Source icon of AME. When you clicked on this icon, Captivate launched a sequence of actions behind the scenes:

• Captivate recorded the position of the mouse at the time of the click (using x and y coordinates).

• Adobe Media Encoder executed the action.

• When Adobe Media Encoder completed its action, Captivate took a second static screenshot to capture the new state of the application. This second screenshot is used as the background image of slide 2.

You then used your mouse a second time to double-click...