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Joanne_C_
Participant
April 2, 2007
Question

GIF Animation

  • April 2, 2007
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I have imported a GIF animation with a transparent background. When I import the GIF into any other program the background is transparent. In Captivate 2, the transparent background comes in as a black background. I want the background transparent so the animation is superimposed on my colored background. Why is Captivate making the transparent background black?
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Shnoogins
Inspiring
April 4, 2007
Sometimes the background of your project will "bleed" through the animation.
I found this out about 10 minutes ago. I inserted a camtasia fullscreen motion capture (as a swf ) as an animation slide. I had changed the background to black, and all the parts of the animation that are normally unnoticably transparent, such as scroll bars, are now black. I fixed it by setting it to white.
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Anonymous
April 3, 2007
Hello there,

No, sorry I don't think that in 99% of times you will be able to preserve the transparency you apply to your animated gifs. As a bit of background information when you choose Insert > Animation and choose an animated GIF file Captivate 2 converts the said animation in a SWF file rather than keeping it as an animated gif file.

Regards,
Mark
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Joanne_C_Author
Participant
April 4, 2007
The strange thing is that sometimes the GIF comes in with a black background, and sometimes it goes psychedelic. When it goes psychedelic it distorts the GIF so it doesn't play the frames in sequence.
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