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EllisRob
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August 5, 2008
Question

Freezing SWFs in Captivate 2

  • August 5, 2008
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I have been using Captivate 2.0 for the past few weeks to create small demonstrations for how to do specfic tasks in a software that we sell. Each demonstration was its own project and then published as a Flash 8 .swf file. I tested each of these smaller projects extensively and they all ran flawlessly as an individual project/.swf. Now I am creating a project and importing all these SWFs and linking to them through my project. (By linking to them I mean that I have a link going from one slide to another that has the .swf as an embedded animation on that slide) It is a fairly linear path with a few topics per page that link to the .swf slides. Each SWF slide has a back button that returns to the previous page.

I neglected to test my project as I went along, importing my 35 .swf files. Now when I preivew or publish my project, it does two min things that I dislike:
1) Jerky playback for some .swf files
2) Most of the animations only play for ~25-30 seconds; Anything after that and the animation disappears (The background color appears but the playbar is still visable, but does not play past the specific point at which it stopped.) This renders longer animations virtually useless.

The jerky playback I assume is just from the project starting to tax my system resources, but I have no clue what the second problem is caused by... Any ideas?

Just FYI: my project is 24mb with all unused files removed, there are 35 .swf files in the library that range from 200kb to ~2mb and in total, there are 65 slides.
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    EllisRobAuthor
    Participant
    August 13, 2008
    I ended up with a solution, be it convoluted and very time consuming... Because of my extensive navigation system, I was forced to make each indiviual slide and individual project with some having 2-3 frames. (I looked into menu builder but it didnt suffice for the multiple methods of navigation I was using... )

    I ultimately got everything working... It just took almost a full week to convert once I decided on a solution to the potential catastrophy.
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    jojolina
    Inspiring
    August 12, 2008
    Hi EllisRob and apologies to NoFreekinClue for jumping in here.

    Have you ever thought of rather running your original Captivate SWF outputs in a different manner:
    1. Use Menubuilder to build a menu allowing the user to link to whatever demo they need.
    2. If the demo's have to run concurrently, use daisychaining to call them up one after another.
    3. build a new file and copy paste your old source files in, but beware of making the file too large.

    Reason I suggest the above is that I do not believe that embedding one Captivate output in another Captivate file creates an ideal playback environment.

    Just my thoughts.
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    Anonymous
    August 11, 2008
    Make sure that the frame rate of the SWF is the same as the CAP presentation. This might be responsible for the jerky play.

    For the longer animations, set the slide duration for the length of the animation (maybe "rest of slide" might work too). This should hold the slide open for the length of animation.

    Hope this helps...

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    Anonymous
    August 11, 2008
    Make sure that the frame rate of the SWF is the same as the CAP presentation. This might be responsible for the jerky play.

    For the longer animations, set the slide duration for the length of the animation (maybe "rest of slide" might work too). This should hold the slide open for the length of animation.

    Hope this helps...

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