If your company is implementing the development of Captivate training videos, this course is strongly recommended to help you manage, organize, and schedule your internal or external development projects successfully.

Planning the development of your first series of Captivate training videos is one of the most challenging stages of development. Pentext simplifies this stage by working with you to define your development requirements, which includes defining your audience requirements, the recording resolution, frame rate, recording type, content outline, script, style guide, object usage, and storyboard, while understanding every stage of review and delivery.

What you get
At the end of this course you will have a complete understanding of the Captivate development process, have a customized development plan, which details every element of the development requirement, highlighting check points, deliverables, development task, and one fully complete training video (with audio recording) to start your training video series.

Six months of after-training support
All pentext courses are accompanied by our six months of complete support services. You can communicate with your instructor by email, telephone, and schedule additional training time.

All courses are specific to your corporate group
That means that one of our instructors will work with you (or your team) specifically; you will never be in a training group with participants from any other company.

One Day Training
Online Training: $895.00 (per participant)
Classroom: $995.00 (per participant)

*Please contact us for group rates, or sessions with extended or less days.
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Custom Development Addons
Add a "Developing for Handheld Devices" module for the iPhone, Blackberry, or Palm Pre (free with this course)
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Manage Training Video Development Projects

Planning the development of your first series of training videos is one of the most challenging stages of development. Pentext simplifies this stage by working with you to understand the process, organize a process that suits your your product, resource, and delivery requirements.

After Training Support
Six months of support is provided to all participants at no extra cost. Participants can communicate with their instructors by telephone, email, and receive immediate impromptu support through our remote desktop training tool.

Course Outline

Unit 1: Developing a Content Development Plan
This section teaches you the basics required to plan your training development project. At the end of this session you will have a complete development plan that you can use for your projects.

Video Training Development Concepts
-Defining the Project Team
-Defining the Project
-Defining Project Requirements according to Costs

Defining Development Tools
-Choosing Video Tutorial Development Tools
-Specifying the audio recording approach
-Specifying the video recording approach
-Defining the use of Animation

Understanding Development Tasks and Relationships
-Elements of the project plan
-Organizing tasks and deliverables
-Organizing Dependencies

Working with Timelines and Schedules
-Understanding the duration of video tutorials development tasks
-Working with Elapsed time
-Defining Work Calendars

Working with Resources
-Defining Project Specifications
-Scriptwriting
-Storyboard Development
-Screen Captures and Recordings
-Audio Recordings and Voice Artists
-Video Recording and Professional Talent
-Synchronzing Screen Recordings and Audio (Video Editing)
-Publishing Projects
-Distributing Project

Working With Costs
-Writing Costs
-Screen Capture and Animation Costs
-Audio Recording and Voice Talent
-Video Recording and Acting Talent
-Video Editing / Content Synchronization
-Publishing and distribution

Project Tracking
-Saving a baseline
-Posting Actual Amounts
-Tracking Varients