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nycbull2
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August 16, 2009
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time to text ratio?

  • August 16, 2009
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Does anyone know a good ratio of how long to set the duration of a slide depending on how much text is on the slide?.

for example, if I have a text caption of 20 words in length, how much time should I give the reader to read it before it fades out or moves to next slide.

is there a standard formula out there.

thanks!

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    Captiv8r
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    August 16, 2009

    Hi there

    I'm not sure the ratio is published anywhere, but Captivate has a function that configures Text Captions to adjust their timing based on the amount of text they contain.

    I believe this is totally subjective, as Bob may require30 seconds to read something and Mary may only need 15 to read the same text. That's why I'm a huge fan of simply inserting a Button or Click Box object to keep slides paused until the reader has decided to move on.

    Cheers... Rick

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    nycbull2Author
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    August 17, 2009

    thanks RIck, but does anyone know what that ratio is in captivate....Ill try to figure  it out

    it looks like it is 1 second for every three words

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