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April 29, 2009
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Cp4: slide shows another slide during transition 'fade'

  • April 29, 2009
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I'm using Captivate 4, and have created a project with 22 slides. Each slide has a background consisting of a screenshot of an application. No imagelayers on top of that, except for highlights and textboxes. Also, each slide contains audio and a few slides contain Flash video.

Problem: when using the transition option 'fade' from slide 4 to slide 5 (slide 5 - transition 'fade'), another slide shines through some of the white space. The slide that shines through could be three different slides, which all contain the same image.

In other words: when transitioning from slide 4 to 5, slide X (could be three identical slides) shines through the white parts for half a second.

I have tried:

- Creating a new slide within current project, with a new background and copying the highlights etc (same problem)

- Copying all slides to a new project (same problem)

- Adding blank slides before and after the slide that shines through (still slide X shines through)

- Checking for transparency (none)

- Inserting the background as a new png and merging it into the background (same problem)

- Inserting the background as a new png and showing it to the end of the slide wthout fades (same problem)

- Removing the transition altogether (works, but I need the transition!)

I have run out of options. Can anyone help me?

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Participating Frequently
April 29, 2009

Hi,

Lets get this clear...

When you set Transition -- it set how the slide will appear ( basically fade-in  in your case )

So your 5th slide must have Transition-Fade. Slide background will too fade in for 5th slide.

If you want that your screenshot isnt visible while slide transition you can add them as image-items and make them appear after fade completes.

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Manoj

Participating Frequently
April 29, 2009

I don't think you understand my problem. I have set no transition for slide 4, but transition-Fade for slide 5. So when slide 4 ends, I expect slide 4 to fade into slide 5. And I do see the fade occur, but halfway through the fade a completely different slide 'shines through' momentarily. It seems to me like some kind of bug.

As I said, both slide 4 and slide 5 only contain a background image, NO jpegs or pngs in layers. The background image of another slide appears for about half a second during the fade...

Participating Frequently
April 30, 2009

Hi there,

This does looks like a bug. Please report this to Adobe here

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Manoj