Importing PowerPoint

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June 22, 2017
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Hi,

I am importing Powerpoint 2013 slides into Captivate 2017.

The slides include timed animation and narration.

When I ran them in Captivate I can see only the animation but I can't hear the narration.

Ac you please help?

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Correct answer mferguson192291

I would highly discourage you importing PowerPoint slides into Captivate. Captivate takes the Powerpoint slides and converts them into SWF content. SWF is Flash content that is not the optimal format recommended for Captivate elearning developers. Flash is being phased out from browser support and may not work in the future. HTML5 is the future. If you want the look and feel of a particular Powerpoint, you are going to have to find another way to copy it over into Captivate such as screenshot the Master Slides as background images for your Master Slides in Captivate and then manually designing the object placeholders, animations, narration the old fashioned way.

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mferguson192291Correct answer

Inspiring

I would highly discourage you importing PowerPoint slides into Captivate. Captivate takes the Powerpoint slides and converts them into SWF content. SWF is Flash content that is not the optimal format recommended for Captivate elearning developers. Flash is being phased out from browser support and may not work in the future. HTML5 is the future. If you want the look and feel of a particular Powerpoint, you are going to have to find another way to copy it over into Captivate such as screenshot the Master Slides as background images for your Master Slides in Captivate and then manually designing the object placeholders, animations, narration the old fashioned way.

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Shanon @AvidAuthor

Participant

I think you are right, for the long term we will need to build slides insides Captivate. Too bad I was hoping that by now Captivate will at least give me some control over animations timing even if it is created in PPT.!

Lilybiri

Legend

Since the focus of Captivate is at this moment on Responsive projects, and PPT is not responsive, I doubt that this will change in the near future. If you only want to convert a PPT, you should prefer a PPT plugin, not a full-blown eLearning authoring tool.

Be aware that a theme in Captivate is a lot more than just master slides. The master slide used for PPT import is the Blank master slide. Themes and master slides in PPT have other goals. Read more about themes (responsive or not) in:

What's in a Theme - a Template? - Captivate blog

Maybe this can be interesting as well:

Challenges for Starters - Captivate blog