Creating a Blank Captivate Movie

Creating a blank movie may, at first, seem a bit odd. The purpose of a movie is to fill a screen with content that can be seen, can be read, or that moves. It isn't to create a blank page.

Yet in fact, a blank movie is a valuable feature. For example, Captivate doesn't allow you to create styles that can be applied throughout the movie. A blank movie does just that: You create the blank moviewhich is a single, empty slideand then add formatted content from click boxes to the slide. From there, you can add extra slides to the movie and copy and paste the movie elements into the new slides.

To create a blank movie

1.	Open Captivate and select "Record or create a new movie" on the Start screen. The New Movie Options dialog box opens.
2.	Select Blank Movie from the "Create other movie type" section of the dialog box. Click OK to open the Blank Movie dialog box. Determine your screen size and click OK. The Blank Movie dialog box closes, and a single blank slide is visible in either the Storyboard View or Edit View panel (Figure 2.45). Figure 2.45. Blank movies have an important role in the movie creation process.