Stop in timeline - don't show all layers. How?

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January 24, 2012
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I am an experienced AfterEffects, FCP, and Camtasia user, but new to Captivate. Currently using Captivate CS5.5 and cannot figure why Captivate shows ALL the layers of content when the playbar stops rather than only the layers active at that point in time. Is there a way to defeat this behavior? This driving me absolutely NUTS!! Can't find the answer in other resources. - Thx!

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Correct answer Lilybiri

Hello,

When editing the slide, you'll see all the objects that are on that slide. When you drag the playhead you'll see only the objects that are active at that point, but when you let the playhead all objects will be there again. Sorry that is the way CP is designed. This dragging is not creating a real preview, which needs a temporary creation of a SWF. That is only possible with real preview modes (F4, F8, F12). Captivate is not a video application, like Camtasia or AfterEffects. It has advantages to have all the objects visible like for aligning purposes; forget about the pure video where manipulating different objects is not at all easy. If you want to align the start of an object timeline with the playhead, use CTRL-L. Perhaps my blog post about the timeline will help you, it is aimed at starters in Captivate:

TinyTimelineTidbits

Lilybiri

LilybiriCorrect answer

Legend

Hello,

When editing the slide, you'll see all the objects that are on that slide. When you drag the playhead you'll see only the objects that are active at that point, but when you let the playhead all objects will be there again. Sorry that is the way CP is designed. This dragging is not creating a real preview, which needs a temporary creation of a SWF. That is only possible with real preview modes (F4, F8, F12). Captivate is not a video application, like Camtasia or AfterEffects. It has advantages to have all the objects visible like for aligning purposes; forget about the pure video where manipulating different objects is not at all easy. If you want to align the start of an object timeline with the playhead, use CTRL-L. Perhaps my blog post about the timeline will help you, it is aimed at starters in Captivate:

TinyTimelineTidbits

Lilybiri

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Steve CovelloAuthor

Participant

This is precisely the issue. From my perspective (Adobe), if it looks like video, moves like video, and embeds like video... it's video. There are NO advantages to seeing 15 layers simultaneously, from my perspective, when the context of an action requires only seeing 2-3. *sigh* Thanks for the fast reply!

RodWard

Community Expert

I have to disagree. It might look like video when it's published, but it's not really video. It's more of an animation. If you come from a video background and you've always worked with video tools then this might look wrong to you. However, if you've worked with different tools, e.g. PPT or Flash, then Captivate will make more sense.

The advantage of having all layers and objects visible on the screen is that you can position them in relation to each other. If you only want to see certain objects and not others, turn them off.

Once you get used to the workflow, it's no problem and you start to see the advantages.

AndyKingInOC

Legend

are you saying it does that when you're viewing the published file or only when you're in the edit mode?

edit: I was trying to clarify to ensure I understood, but yeah, what lilybiri said. Sorry, just the way it is.

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