Slide loses animation

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April 16, 2012
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Whenever i go back to any slide on my published flash player training, the slide tends to forget the animation that has been used. The objects dont appear the way they should and come all at once foregoing the animations applied. any suggestions? i am using adobe captivate cs5

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Correct answer RodWard

Yes we are only aware about the Fade in and Fade out tranisitions. Completely unaware of the Effects panel. Could you guide us on that maybe?

PS: Correction!!! We are using Adobe Captivate 4 and not Adobe Captivate CS5 as mentioned above wrongly by mistake.

If you're on Captivate 4 then you will not have the Effects panel. Your options are limited to the transitions available such as Fade in and Fade out.

If you have Flash, there is nothing to prevent you from creating SWF objects with sophisticated animations and then inserting them into Captivate. That's the way I used to do just about everything before Cp5 introduced Effects. Now I only use Flash for things Captivate cannot yet do, like masking.

RodWard

Community Expert

Are you referring to SWF animations created in Flash and inserted into Captivate, or to objects in Captivate that have animations applied to them?

Can you be a little clearer about the nature of this issue? Perhaps give us an example? or show a screenshot?

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Anonymous

Thanks for the extremely quick response. Appreciate it. (Sorry wouldnt be able to give a screenshot:confidentiality purpose. Surely you understand)

i am referring to objects in Captivate that have animations applied to them.

So essentially we are required to put a 60 slide presentation in Adobe Captivate. We have imported the entire presentation in Captivate. The animations and the required timing of each animation has been done in the MS Powerpoint presentation itself (as on importing adobe captivate provides the only a single bar to set the time in the Timeline).

After that we exported it to flash player (.exe format). On playing the file whenever we go back to a slide the animations dont appear again.

PS:

Is it a good option to export the entire presentation? or should we paste each object on each slide separately?i guess this will provide more flexibility in terms of setting the time for each object. But will lead to less animation options available?

RodWard

Community Expert

OK. Now I understand a bit more. So you've applied animations in PPT before importing the PPT deck into Captivate. You're not really talking about 'objects in Captivate' like text captions, highlight boxes, or images, etc. You're referring to objects in PPT (with animations applied in PPT) that are brought in as individual PPT slides.

From my understanding of how the PPT import process works, you end up with each PPT slide being converted into something a bit like a chunk of video embedded on each corresponding Captivate slide. You cannot edit the objects and animations on this slide like you would other native Cp objects that had Cp animations applied. To edit the PPT slide objects, you have to use the options to roundtrip edit to PPT and then back to Cp.

I think you're going to find that your options are quite limited as far as resolving this issue while ever you use PPT as your starting point. If you were to build these slides from scratch in Captivate and use Captivate's animation options instead, then (depending on the specific animation effects you're after) you might have better luck trying to get them to work when jumping back to a previous slide. It sounds a bit like with your current project the PPT animations only play once per session and they remember the fact that they've reached their end point.

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