Create Fully Interactive Demos, Tutorials and Software Simulations
MadCap Mimic is an easy-to-use software simulation and multimedia tool that lets
you create fully interactive movies, simulations, presentations, and
tutorials of software or systems.
Mimic Features
Create Professional, Fully Interactive Videos with MadCap Mimic™ V6.
MadCap Mimic is a powerful multimedia tool designed with a variety of features to give users all the tools necessary to create professional video projects and tutorials. MadCap Mimic's key features include a range of visual effects and enhancements, seamless PowerPoint® file importing, as well as multiple target outputs including Adobe® AIR™, Flash™, and PDF, Microsoft® Silverlight™ and XPS, and Mimic Movie Format (MMF). Enjoy seamless integration with MadCap Flare and MadCap Lingo for easy translation of multimedia content.
- MovieSync™, included free with MadCap Mimic, will save you time and eliminate redundancies when updating existing movies.
- Easily share and transfer movie and frame properties from one Mimic Movie to another. Properties include anything from objects (e.g. shapes, cursors, typing boxes etc.) to timing, to frame sizes and more.
- Eliminate the need to re-shoot existing movies for new releases, UI changes, etc.
Movie Creation
- Full-motion recording
- Immediate preview
- Project-oriented workflow
- Snap to It - automatically "snap" recording window to active application size
- Multiple recording options - full screen, specific application or even particular screen region
Movie Enhancements
- Animated typing boxes - add animated typing boxes automatically or manually to frames
- Individual frame bitmaps - easily edit a particular background image with any bitmap editor
- Interactive typing boxes - add input typing boxes for users including success and failure actions, hint captions etc.
- Integrated audio
- Special effects - highlight areas, shading, blur, gray scale and 3D effects for zoom-in emphasis
- Trajectories - manually or automatically add trajectories when recording movies
- Visual timeline - synchronize objects in a movie frame, adjust display time, appearance timing etc...
- Add Loop and Arrow Shapes to Frames
- Audio narration during screen recording
- Add sound objects to frames
- Flash embedded skin enhancements - Seek/time bar, volume controls
PowerPoint® Import
- Import PowerPoint® (.ppt and .pptx) into Mimic by either creating a new movie from existing PPT slides or insert slides into an existing Mimic movie.
- PowerPoint® import supports:
- Images (including background images)
- Master layout slides converted to master frames
- Shape groups
- Text boxes
- And More...
Usability
- Multiple Document Interface
- Floating and dockable window panes
- Resizable dialogs and drop-down menus
- Full Unicode support
- Dynamic Help window pane locking
- Reorganized Frame Editor
- Shape rotation
- User defined aspect ratio
- Drop down for built in ratios
- Lock aspect ratio
Single Sourcing
- Condition tags and targets - mark movies, frames, or objects for inclusion or exclusion in various outputs
- Frame libraries - store often-used frames for insertion in other movies
- Master frames - quickly and easily apply certain elements (e.g., buttons, image objects) to many frames at once
- Palettes - Add various object types (shapes, lines, and cursors) to individual frames
- Variables - insert variables (re-usable text) into frames and also link to and use variables used in Flare projects
Cross-product Integration
- Seamless integration including cross-product variable support with MadCap Flare
- Integration with MadCap Lingo for easy translation of multimedia content
- Integration with MovieSync for quickly transferring movies and frame properties from one Mimic movie to another
Multiple Output Options
- Desktop-based Output Options
- Mimic Movie Format
- Adobe® AIR™
- Web-based Output Options
- Microsoft® Silverlight™
- Adobe® Flash Engine
- Local Silverlight support in Chrome
- Print-based Output Options
- Microsoft® XPS Enhanced
- Adobe® PDF Enhanced
