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Editing captured frames

Review all the captured screens. Make sure that all the necessary screens are captured. Repeat capturing if any screens are missing.

Sometimes, if the "Capture Cursor" mode is on, the very first Frame could be empty, it means that capturing mouse movements took place prior to the first screen capture. You may simply remove this Frame.

The blue tracing lines on the Frame are reflections of the mouse movements (they will not be visible when replaying). When required, you can modify the location of the mouse clicks (you can drag them) and/or remove unwanted clicks completely, in this case the trace of the mouse path will be automatically adjusted. Note that you can also modify the cursor shape, speed of movements, and time duration for holding down the mouse button. To accomplish these modifications, right-click on the cursor image and select Format Cursor from the context menu.

However, the captured set of frames is not quite finished and should be considered "groundwork" for future editing. Most likely you are going to need to provide additional supporting explanations in a form of balloons or popup windows.

From the editor’s point of view, each captured Frame can be treated as a typical Frame (the only difference is the recorded mouse movements). On any of the captured frames you can insert additional Objects from the Objects library (balloons, popup, pictures, etc.). On all captured frames you can use Actions, change timeouts and so on, just like with any other frames.

By default, the replay time for a particular Frame is defined by the time spent on mouse movements. However, you can manually change a Frame display time, if necessary. Right-click on the necessary Frame and use the Transition item from the context menu. Specify the required timeout for the frame.