Custom Flash Animation Effects for Captivate Project

If the long list of the supplied effects in Captivate 5 is still not enough, you can create custom Flash animation effects and used that in your Captivate project. Here are the steps:

Step 1: Create a classic tween animation in Flash CS5. Please note that only classic tween is supported. You can still use Motion Guide to create complex animation.

Step 2: Select the animation frame and export the animation as XML under the Commands/Export Motion XML menu.

Step 3: You can put the xml file into the Captivate program folder if you want to make it available to all Captivate project. Typically the path to the Captivate Effects folder like:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 5.5\Gallery\Effects\Basic

Step 4: You should now be able to select the custom effect from the Add Effects button at the Captivate Effects panel.