Text caption set up to display for all of slide

Forum|Forum|14 years ago
November 14, 2011
2 replies
1181 views

hello

i'm using captivate 5 and have another query.

is there a way to automatically set up text captions to display for the whole slide not a specific time? I know how to set this, but to go through and do this for every text caption is proving to be very time consuming.

look forward to hearing from you.

Recording

This topic has been closed for replies.

H

heidikararaminingAuthor

Known Participant

Great thanks for that!

Just a quick questions, what does the calculate caption timing option do?

RodWard

Community Expert

It automatically sets the slide duration seconds of your text caption according to how many words you type into it. The idea is that people need a certain amount of time to read the text in a caption. So if you type in a lot of text, Captivate should show the caption for a lot of time. It's a setting that MIGHT be of some use in page-turner e-learning where you expect the learner to be reading everything on the screen.

Personally, as you can see from my screenshot, I turn off all of these three options (Autosize buttons, Autosize Captions, Calculate Caption Timing) as I use voiceover and want total control over these elements.

Lilybiri

Legend

The Timing accordion of the Text caption could allow you to apply the setting 'For rest of slide' to all text captions (use the curved arrow, highlighted in screenshot), but the drawback is that this timing accordion also has the start time that will then be applied to all text captions, which is not always what you'll want. So for the example of the screenshot, all text captions would get a start at 4,5secs if I applied this setting to all.

If you want all future Text Captions in all projects to have the setting 'For rest of slide' make changes to the Preferences before opening a project.

Lilybiri

RodWard

Community Expert

Yes you can set this but only for new captions.

These settings will not change the duration of captions already inserted into your project file.

Sign up

To post, reply, or follow discussions, please sign in with your Adobe ID.

Sign in to Adobe Community

To post, reply, or follow discussions, please sign in with your Adobe ID.

Scanning file for viruses.

This file cannot be downloaded