Captivate: Changes I’d like to see

When working with software, do you ever think that a feature would be more obvious if properly named/described/organized? Do you think there’s been an omission from a menu or dialog box?

This is the first of a series of planned, constantly updated posts related to minor corrections to the labels and dialogs used in applications. If you agree or disagree, please comment below. If you really agree with an item, go to the Adobe Features/Bugs Form and vote for it yourself. It takes 3 minutes, and is the best way to be heard, especially when a request is logged by multiple users.

Text Captions

Now that we can edit text by double-clicking in the text caption, I’d like to see the Caption Type added to the right-click menu (context menu) for captions. Often I need to go into Text Caption Properties for only this purpose.

Hilight not snapping to Playhead on insert

Unlike other objects, my hilight box is inserted at “0″ on the timeline, rather than at the current location of the playhead.