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Choppy fades with Captivate

  • June 15, 2006
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All my slides had nice image and text caption fade ins at .5 seconds, until I added a Navigation bar to allow users to navigate to different sections of the movie. The Nav bar is a JPG merged into the background with 7 click boxes over it. When I added the click boxes the fade ins became choppy. I have experimented with dropping the click boxes 1 by 1 to see if there is a threshold where the fade ins become smooth again but I seem to be getting inconsistent results. If I drop the click boxes all together the fades ins become smooth again. So I am faced with either dropping the Nav bar or keeping it and having choppy fade ins.

Does anyone have any experience with this?
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    Correct answer Captiv8r
    Hi again Thomas_9642

    Okay... wow. First things first here. 170 slides is really too big for Captivate. So you should probably think about breaking things up a bit. Seems logical to me that maybe your movie could realistically be separated into seven smaller movies. My thought here is that with that many slides, so much is going on that the fades are becoming choppy due to the player trying to deal with a really large movie.

    You should easily be able to click Save As... and repeatedly save the movie over and over until you have seven copies. Then it should be pretty simple to just pare away the sections that don't apply. This will result in much smaller and more nimble movies. You could then easily link them all together with a nice wrapper using either Jesse Warden's Captivate Player (obtained by clicking here) and the update (obtained by clicking here) or one of fellow Adobe Community Expert Paul Dewhurst's players (obtained by clicking here)

    Hopefully this helps... Rick :)

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    Captiv8r
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    June 15, 2006
    Hi Thomas_9642 and welcome to our community

    I think you will find that almost everything with Captivate hinges on timing. Seems I'm always futzing about with adjusting timing here and there where fades suddenly stop or start and whatnot. So I'm guessing the same holds true here.

    You mention click boxes. These can be programmed to do a variety of things when the user clicks. So the fact fading seems affected may be an indicator that you have programmed to simply go to the next slide. If this occurs, objects that might be set to fade out if you simply continued playing don't have the opportunity, as the progress is whisked off to the next slide immediately. So you may need to examine the action of the click box in addition to the timing.

    I'm curious to know, however, how you managed to merge a button bar into a slide and have it appear on more than one slide. Or is this only done on a single slide that serves as the navigation focal point?

    Cheers... Rick :)
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    Thomas_9642Author
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    June 15, 2006
    Thanks for the welcome Rick.

    I have a movie with about 170 slides. On most of the slides there is an image and a text box which each appears after 0.0 seconds and Fades In Only for 0.5 seconds. Each slide also has a Next and Back button which appear after 0.0 seconds. The Next button pauses the movie after 1.5 seconds.

    Merged into my background is the text: "Section1, Section 2, etc. There are 7 sections in my movie. Over of each of these I placed a click box. The click boxes jump to the first slide of the corresponding section of the movie. The click boxes appear after 0.0 seconds. After I added the Click boxes, my image and text caption fade ins became choppy. Before they were smooth.

    I tried changing the click boxes to appear after 1.5 seconds, well after the fades ins were finished but the fade ins were still choppy.

    The best thing I have come up with so far is to change the fade ins to 0.3 seconds which make it less noticeable.

    Any help would be appreciated, Thomas
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    June 15, 2006
    Hi again Thomas_9642

    Okay... wow. First things first here. 170 slides is really too big for Captivate. So you should probably think about breaking things up a bit. Seems logical to me that maybe your movie could realistically be separated into seven smaller movies. My thought here is that with that many slides, so much is going on that the fades are becoming choppy due to the player trying to deal with a really large movie.

    You should easily be able to click Save As... and repeatedly save the movie over and over until you have seven copies. Then it should be pretty simple to just pare away the sections that don't apply. This will result in much smaller and more nimble movies. You could then easily link them all together with a nice wrapper using either Jesse Warden's Captivate Player (obtained by clicking here) and the update (obtained by clicking here) or one of fellow Adobe Community Expert Paul Dewhurst's players (obtained by clicking here)

    Hopefully this helps... Rick :)
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