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Anonymous
June 22, 2009
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Slide transtions don't work

  • June 22, 2009
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I imported a small set of slides from PowerPoint with no transitions, and I added transitions between slides in Captivate. But after about the 4th slide, the transitions get stuck about halfway on each slide, so the slide has the transition mess stuck on it. I removed all transitions, but they still won't go away - they are there in the preview and in publish, even after saving, closing Captivate, re-publishing, etc.

Is this a bug in importing PowerPoint slides?

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    Correct answer Chinmay Baid

    Chinmay,

    Thanks for the detailed info. Yes, the PPT did have some animations in it. I ended up recreating the Captivate file and the transitions are OK now.

    However, I am still puzzled by one point. You say that Captivate handles animations from PPT well, but none of the animations from the PPT showed up in the Captivate timeline, or anywhere as objects in Captivate as far as I could see. So there apparentkly were "hidden" animations that caused problems in Captivate, and the only way to fix that was to go back and troubleshoot PPT.

    To me, that's a backwards way of doing things - Captivate should display the animations it imports, so they can be handled like any other object. Why doesn't it display imported animations, or does it - and perhaps was my file was messed up somehow?


    Hi.

    Yes, Captivate handles the animations from PPT well. But it does not import the PPT objects separately. It picks up the PPT slide and imports it as an animation slide. Hence, you cannot see the internal objects of PPT slide inside Captivate.

    Also, if you have Powerpoint installed on your machine, then you do not need to go back to Powerpoint and make changes. You can do this directly by using Edit PPT feature of Captivate 4.0.

    Thanks

    Chinmay

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    Chinmay Baid
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    June 22, 2009

    Hi.

    Can you please check whether the slide 4 of PPT has any interactive object or an on-click animation(added from PPT) ??

    If so, Captivate transition will pause for that interaction from user. Try removing the interactive object (or converting the on-click animation to automatic animation) of PPT slide and then import PPT project into Captivate. Check if it solves your problem.

    Thanks

    Chinmay

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    Anonymous
    June 22, 2009

    Thanks, I had already looked for that - there are no interactive objects anywhere in the Captivate file so far ...

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    Chinmay Baid
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    June 22, 2009

    Hi.

    Sorry, but I asked for interactive objects or on-click animations in PPT project which you imported into Captivate.

    Thanks

    Chinmay.

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