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adrianTNT
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November 8, 2006
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Each slide stops at end

  • November 8, 2006
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Hello.

I made a captivate movie and it seems to pause after each slide. I need to keep pressing play in order to play continuously.
I could not find an option for this, any ideas?

Thank you.
- Adrian.
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    Correct answer Captiv8r
    Hi Adrian

    Yep, a button would certainly do it! These little beasties normally pause the movie by their very nature.

    For anyone reading this, you can stop the pause from occurring by clicking the Options tab and DE-selecting the "Pause after:" check box. Definitely would want to do this before copyinig and pasting on all other slides.

    Cheers... Rick

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    adrianTNT
    adrianTNTAuthor
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    November 9, 2006
    Thanks Rick, by the time I got tyhe reply I had the movie recorded again without finding the exact cause of that problem in first movie.
    // It was set to "demonstration".

    I am 90% sure it stopped playing because of this reason:

    I created a button and then pasted it in all frames, the button is a link to my site; I think the button has the default option to pause the slides after x seconds so as button was present in each slide the movie keept stopping on each slide.

    Is fixed now.
    Thanks for your time Rick.
    Captiv8r
    Captiv8rCorrect answer
    Legend
    November 9, 2006
    Hi Adrian

    Yep, a button would certainly do it! These little beasties normally pause the movie by their very nature.

    For anyone reading this, you can stop the pause from occurring by clicking the Options tab and DE-selecting the "Pause after:" check box. Definitely would want to do this before copyinig and pasting on all other slides.

    Cheers... Rick
    Captiv8r
    Legend
    November 9, 2006
    Hi Adrian

    When you record movies in Captivate, you have a choice in how they are recorded. By default, automatic mode is enabled. (Click Options > Recording Options... > Recording Options tab and see if there is a check mark in the "Enable auto recording" check box. Normally this is enabled by default and I'm guessing it is enabled here.

    Now, take a look at the Recording mode drop-down. Here is where you probably changed something and failed to realize it. If you choose Demonstration, the resulting movie should just play along without pausing. But if you choose either of the Simulation modes, interactive objects are inserted that typically pause the movie at each slide. This results in the behavior you are describing. So how do you fix this?

    1. You *could* simply change the recording mode back to Demonstration, then re-record the movie

    OR

    2. You could edit each slide to remove any interactive objects (Click Boxes, Buttons or Text Entry Boxes), then adjust the timing so things play through as desired.

    Cheers... Rick