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Full motion recording (FMR)

Last updated on Nov 3, 2025

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Overview

Adobe Captivate offers a unique feature for recording simulations known as Full-motion Recording (FMR). FMR captures all on-screen activity as a continuous video, making it perfect for demonstrating workflows or navigation in software tutorials, live demos, or interactive sessions. It activates automatically when the cursor moves outside the recording area, or you can trigger it manually with shortcut keys.

Initiate a simulation recording and navigate to the Keys section within the settings. The shortcut keys for starting and stopping Full Motion Recording manually are:

On Windows: fn + F9 to start and fn + F10 to end FMR respectively.
On macOS: cmd + F9 to start and cmd + F10 to end FMR respectively.

The Preferences panel Keys section shows keyboard shortcuts for Full-motion Recording: fn+F9 to start and fn+F10 to end on Windows, cmd+F9 and cmd+F10 on macOS. — Use these keyboard shortcuts to manually trigger Full Motion Recording during simulation capture for continuous video recording.

Here are the steps to add a full-motion recording (FMR) in the all-new Adobe Captivate:

Begin by recording a new software simulation.
Select fn+F9( Windows) or cmd+F9 (macOS) to start the full-motion recording.
After completing the activity, select fn+F10(Windows) or cmd+F10(macOS) to stop the full-motion recording.
To conclude the software simulation recording, you can either press the End key (Windows) or cmd + Return (macOS), or simply select the stop icon in the recording pod.

Note

Choosing the Application Window or Custom size as your recording preference will trigger FMR to activate automatically once you move outside the specified dimensions, indicated by a blue rectangle. However, you need to enable Panning for this feature to work.

Full Motion Recording in progress during Captivate simulation. A blue rectangle for Application window or Custom size screen area appears while performing a software simulation. While recording if a user moves outside this blue border, a full motion recording starts automatically — Select fn+F9( Windows) or cmd+F9 (macOS) to start the full-motion recording, and after completing the activity, select fn+F10(Windows) or cmd+F10(macOS) to stop it.

Identifying full-motion recording slides

Slides with full-motion recording (FMR) appear as videos that capture the entire screen activity. You can play these videos on the FMR slides using the buttons on the Timeline. Additionally, you can add the same simulation components to the FMR video slides. The key difference between simulation slides and FMR slides is that simulation slides appear as static images of the screen and can be downloaded as images, whereas FMR slides are videos.

View the images to see how full-motion recording slides differ from simulation slides.