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jenilsson
Inspiring
November 2, 2012
Question

After resizing project, some FMRs retain an original size frame

  • November 2, 2012
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I'm working in Version 6.

My original projects are recorded at 1600x1200 and then reduced in size to 800x600 and published as .MP4s.

When reviewing the content, I noticed that some full-motion recordings (but not all of them) show another image for a split second. I managed to stop the playback exactly on one of these artifacts and it appears to be the the top-left corner of the slide/recording image, just not resized. I can see the same artifact in playback mode, but not when I use F3 to view just the FMR slide. The artifact always appears at the beginning of a full-motion slide.

Not sure that it matters, but I think that the affected FMRs are all on slides where I've saved the file and come back to record additional slides later.

(Note: I'm a consultant working with a client's template, so changing the recording size or resize ratio is not an option. They recently upgraded to 6 and do not recall seeing this happen in 5.5, the other developer thinks she may have seen this once since upgrading but they couldn't track down a cause.)

Thanks,

Jenny N

Instructional Designer

Twin Cities Captivate User Group Co-manager

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jenilssonAuthor
Inspiring
November 19, 2012

The issue is that the FMR is stored full-size and resized at runtime.

I found a workaround with the help of a colleague. I can copy the background of the previous slide and place it as an image for .1-.2 sec on the slide with the FMR.

I also discovered while playing around that I can create a new slide and pull the FMR out of the library then resize to fit the stage, I'm not sure why it worked differently when the FMR is an object on the slide, but I'll take it.

Jenny N

RodWard
Community Expert
RodWardCommunity Expert
Community Expert
November 3, 2012

Jenny,

To remove the artifact:

  1. Select the FMR slide and go to Properties > FMR Edit Options.
  2. Select an appropriate option there to delete part of the FMR.

You should be able to get rid of the frames that contain this artifact quite easily.

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jenilssonAuthor
Inspiring
November 5, 2012

Thanks for your response, unfortunately that did not work.

If I trim from the beginning, I still get a full-sized frame at the beginning of playback. I also tried using the Split function to see if I could determine where the artifact is actually located and got even stranger behavior: everything after the split is full-sized (shows the lower-right corner or original), I've tried splitting in 2 different locations with the same result. (And the full-sized frame still appears at the beginning of the FMR.)

Regards,

Jenny N

RodWard
Community Expert
RodWardCommunity Expert
Community Expert
November 6, 2012

Have you tried using the new Video Capture in Cp6?

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