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shol72685
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November 12, 2015
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Change all slide durations at once in Captivate 9?

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I've got a presentation I imported from PowerPoint. I've changed my global preferences (by closing projects and going to Edit --> Preferences) for the slide default duration to be 1sec instead of the default 3sec. Yet when I import from PowerPoint all the slides are set to duration 3. Secondly, there appears to be no way to change all slide durations at once. I've right clicked on a slide and choose "Select All Slides" and try and change the duration on the properties timings tab to 1, but that does nothing. Is there a way I can change this without manually changing each slide?

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Correct answer shol72685

Duration can be 3secs, no reason at all to limit it to 1 sec. It is the pausing point that is important. Click box that is inserted (if you choose the option to advance on Click) has pausing at the end but is active in its total timeline.

New to Captivate? Take bit of time to understand the timeline, please, you'll discover how much more powerful it is than PPT.  If you only want a presentation converter tool, use a plugin. What will you do if you add audio to the slides? I never did see VO shorter than 1 sec. User has control over advancing with that interactive object, labeled Click box.


I understand the timeline, this is more for non technical users to get an easy start and to help convert all of our existing presentations. New presentations we are making are all started straight in Captivate. So that's why I need to get some solution working for our old presentations that does not involve simply redoing the entire thing from scratch in Captivate (because we have A LOT of them).

Lilybiri wrote:

Click box that is inserted (if you choose the option to advance on Click) has pausing at the end but is active in its total timeline.

This is not the case. I just tried 3 times from a fresh "from powerpoint" project. However thanks to your tips on the timeline, I found out it's because the clickbox is rather oddly configured when importing. For some reason the default for all the clickboxes says to appear after 2.7 seconds and appear for .3 seconds. So I just changed it to show for the rest of the slide and appear after 0.1seconds and then click the little option to apply for all items of this type. So that works, but it still seems odd there's no way to globally change all slide durations.

Another problem I have though is publishing these presentations to HTML 5. All the text is gone when I do that. If I publish to Flash then the text is there. Couldn't find anything on google, is this just a limitation of how imported powerpoint slides get handled? Or do I need to set some option for this to work?

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Lilybiri
Lilybiri
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November 12, 2015

Why so short? That is not a good idea.

Moreover each Powerpoint slide is converted to a movie. It is perfectly possible to change duration for normal slides (not the movie type) with the work flow you described. Personally I would never recommend short durations like that, why do you want it?

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shol72685Author
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November 12, 2015

I basically just want it to act like a normal powerpoint presentation that will only advance the slide when you click, which is how it works when you import by default. But the default import setting is 3 second duration, and until the 3 seconds is up you cannot click to advance the slide, very annoying and not like a user would expect (I've hidden the playback controls and displays the table of contents, again to mimic a normal powerpoint presentation as close as possible).

Lilybiri
Lilybiri
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November 12, 2015

Duration can be 3secs, no reason at all to limit it to 1 sec. It is the pausing point that is important. Click box that is inserted (if you choose the option to advance on Click) has pausing at the end but is active in its total timeline.

New to Captivate? Take bit of time to understand the timeline, please, you'll discover how much more powerful it is than PPT.  If you only want a presentation converter tool, use a plugin. What will you do if you add audio to the slides? I never did see VO shorter than 1 sec. User has control over advancing with that interactive object, labeled Click box.

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