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GBarsh
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March 17, 2009
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Flashes Before My Eyes!

  • March 17, 2009
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I downloaded Captivate 4.0 trial and have since purchased and installed the "real program".

I imported a .ppt for my slides.
I converted .mpg files to .flv with Flash video encoder and inserted in various slides.
I created a quiz at the end of the presentation in Captivate.
The Captivate file size is 2.8M

Other than making a few cosmetic adjustments, I published to Flash. Everything worked great. Now, all of a sudden when I try to publish...even just review...the slides literally flash before my eyes.

I have 42 slides, 21 of which are a combination of text and video, the remaining are dedicated to a quiz. I've tried deleting earlier versions, deleted my browser history, deleted temporary files...everything I could think of that could possibly be causing this "slide flashing" at random. Nothing is working. Has anyone run into this problem before? Don't know if it's something with the software or my hardware.
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    BillxMills
    Participating Frequently
    March 18, 2009
    I had the same experience, went to an earlier version that was not "corrupt" and it was OK, but I had made a lot of changes between the versions and overwritten good with the corrupt, OUCH.

    To salvage the corrupt version I copied, 4 slides at a time, the old 44 slide project into a new project, testing it as i went. It was fine for several days then became corrupt again. At least this time I had saved a version from about an hour before, could easily step back.

    The change I made that seemed to set it off was minor, I changed the loading animation.
    Captiv8r
    Captiv8r
    Legend
    March 17, 2009
    Welcome to our community, Gail

    When you say it "flashes", which do you mean?

    * You see unwanted "flashes" of white between one or more of the slides.
    * The movie "flashes" and fast forwards to the end.

    Cheers... Rick
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    GBarshAuthor
    Participant
    March 18, 2009
    The movie fast fowards to the end. But it's not like I can see each individual slide and it just moves faster than I can read.

    The navigation "skin" used to be at the bottom of the slide and I could either click on the "next" arrow or just move the "slider" to get to the next slide. Now the navigation is somewhere at the top, the "next" arrow is in the middle of the page with no control attached to it and the slides just "flash" until I exit out.

    I am going to attempt to start all over again...maybe there's a setting I missed...maybe I shouldn't include the quiz at the end of the presentation, but rather make it a separate file and direct the last slide to go to that file...don't know at this point.


    From what I can remember, when I used the default buttons within the quiz ("submit" or "back") everything worked fine. When I went in and changed the defaults to an image button for those same commands, it went screwey!
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