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Stop animation skipping when I click screen in Captivate 9?

Forum|Forum|9 years ago
May 9, 2016
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Hi, I have imported a slide deck containing animations from powerpoint into adobe captivate 9. The animations all use timings rather than mouse clicks however which works fine in powerpoint (clicking the screen does nothing), however in captivate if I click on a slide it skips the whole animation. Does anyone know of a fix for this? Its has been asked a number of times in years past without a resolution

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kjohnsDelAuthor

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Hi guys, thanks for the responses so far. Although this would appear to be a bug and I was hoping perhaps there was something in the settings I could change, I have come up with a solution I'd like to share with others. What I have done is add a click box as an overlay for each slide in the presentation then in the properties set 'On Success' to have 'No Action'. I hope this is a help to others who have had this problem

RodWard

Community Expert

OK. Something to check here.

When you imported the PPT deck into Captivate, did you notice the option in the drop down box that allowed you to specify whether the slides should advance with a Mouse Click or Automatically?

It sounds like you have opted for the one that advances slides On Mouse Click. What this does is add a Click Box object to each slide in Captivate and this click box will pause the slide.

From your description above it sounds like you DID NOT in fact want the slides to be paused by anything but had actually set it up in PPT so that the animations on subsequent slides ran seamlessly into each other. Is that correct?

If so, then you may need to go to each slide and remove all those click boxes. However, your next problem will be that your PPT slide animations may not necessarily transport into Captivate exactly as you would like. They end up getting converted into video files, one per slide.

But making any changes to the timing of these animations requires that you go back into PPT and make the edit there before ROUND-TRIPPING to update what gets seen in the Captivate file. It's not so annoying for one or two brief edits, but the process gets tiresome very quickly if your entire project requires a lot of tweaking.

So those of use that use Captivate a lot generally recommend that you forget about using PowerPoint as quickly as possible and just start building everything from scratch, including your animations, in Captivate.

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kjohnsDelAuthor

Participant

I have set the slides to advance automatically when importing and then added buttons at the end of each slide to move forward. Therefore the click box you speak of which pauses the slide isn't present. Everything is fine now using the fix described above.

I would like to have time to start everything from scratch in Captivate however I work in a company that uses PowerPoint for everything so that wasn't an option for this particular project. Thanks for your insight RodWard

Lilybiri

Legend

Did you check High Fidelity when importing?

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kjohnsDelAuthor

Participant

Hi, yes I checked high fidelity which means everything comes across as it should, including the timing, however it adds an onclick action that isn't present in the original presentation.

Lilybiri

Legend

I would have liked to see the timeline of the slides, because it looks very weird that CP would add an invisible click box.

GauravM

Inspiring

Moving to Adobe Captivate

Captiv8r

Legend

One way to overcome this is by skipping the whole "import" process. What you do is present the PowerPoint (either full screen or in a window) and use Captivate to record it as it plays.

Cheers... Rick

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