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August 12, 2021
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Pausing slide audio

  • August 12, 2021
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Dear all, I am a complete newbie to this and am creating some very basic slides with audio narration on them.  I have made a back button and a next button with a third button for repeat.  The repeat button replays the audio (narration). I want the ability for the user to pause the narration and then resume.  I have tried putting in a button to pause and a button for resume.  When I tried that the audio started from the begining again.  So I tried making the skin visible with the play pause button and all this does is restart the audio from the begining again.  I am lost on this, does anyone have any ideas?  I must stress I am a beginner of beginners with this.  Best 

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    Correct answer Lilybiri

    This is exactly what I meant!

    Thank you very much, This will indeed be a great blog post!


    Blog post is already online (my personal blog). It will also appear in the eLearning community, but is (as usual) waiting for moderation. As if I would post spam...

    http://blog.lilybiri.com/combining-slide-audio-and-play-audio

    You'll see that I needed a second shared action with one parameter to cope with all situations.

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    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
    Legend
    August 12, 2021

    As Rod points out it is necessary to use only slide audio in that case. Only that type of audio is synchronised with Captitvate's slide timeline. Using the commands Pause and Continue will act on all objects/effects but also on slide audio. However a pausing point of an interactive objects will only pause slide audio if you do activate that in the Options tab:

    More about the relation between audio types and timeline in:

    Pausing Timeline and Audio clips - eLearning (adobe.com)

    I suspect you are not using slide audio because of your Repeat button.  Maybe you ignore that you can replay the slide, which will also replay slide audio? I tried to explain the workflow in:

    http://blog.lilybiri.com/replay-or-reset-slide

     

     

     

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    stephenw30516810Author
    Participating Frequently
    August 12, 2021

    Wow, that has worked!!!  I would never have figured that one without you... Thank you so much to the both of you!!

    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
    Legend
    August 12, 2021

    Which solution did you use? I just now see your timeline screenshot, was not there when I tried to supplement some ideas to Rod's answer. Screenshot is bit fuzzy and small. The three buttons appear only after the end of the audio clip which is indeed slide audio. It is a fluid boxes project. 

    My question is meant for other users struggling with the same problem: which solution?

    RodWard
    Community Expert
    RodWardCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    August 12, 2021

    If your audio is attached to the slide, then pausing the slide playback will pause the slide audio.  Clicking the Play button to continue playback should cause the slide audio to resume exactly where it left off.

     

    However, from your description of the problem it would seem that your audio may be connected NOT to the slide but rather is being triggered by some other method.  So can you please clarify: Exactly HOW did you add the audio to this project?

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    stephenw30516810Author
    Participating Frequently
    August 12, 2021

    Thank you Rod, I recorded the audio using the record tab on the menu bar at the top.   Ithen named that clip in my library and called it slide 5 for example.  have then put a third button on the screen which animates at the end of the slide along with next and back. if clicked will play slide 5 audio again and I have de slected coninue movie to hold it all in place as it were. 

    I hope this all makes sense, I tried to create buttons to pause and then one to contine.  I bandoed that as it casued me all sorts of problems with the timeline and in any event it just did not do what I thought it would.  I dont know if this picture will help?

     

     

    I appreciate your help, I have so much to learn on this

    Best wishes 

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