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July 22, 2020
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Videos randomly disappreaing when working with multi-state objects.

  • July 22, 2020
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So I have been working with Captivate for about 6 months now and I recently started using mulit-state object and advanced actions. I have created a project with a "next" and "previous" button that when clicked loads the next state of a video. The video object has 13 states that are all different source video files. I did this because I wanted the transition to be as smooth as possible, so I didn't want it to load a whole new object or even a new slide. The problem I am facing right now though is very weird and extremly frustrating. When i cycle through the states, certain videos just randomly disappear. Weirdly I found out that pausing the slide will have an effect on this, but whenever I set the button to pause the slide, other videos now disappear. Could this be a problem with the way I preview the project? (Usually within Captivate using preview options). Or is there something I am missing? Thanks in advance for the help

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Lilybiri
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July 22, 2020

If this is a non-responsive project, which you don't specify, NEVER use any preview method except F11, Preview HTML in Browser. That is the only Preview which generates a temporary HTML output, the other ones are based on SWF output.

ToastyBoyAuthor
Participating Frequently
July 22, 2020

My bad. It is a responsive project. All of the preview methods, inlcuding F11, produce the same error. I am starting to think that this is a bug in captivate since I can not think of any reason why some states would work and others wouldn't.

Lilybiri
Legend
July 22, 2020

Many factors can cause this: how big are the videos (they have been loaded, since those are event videos. Do not call something a bug before you are sure that it is not due to limitations of your system or other causes.

Reflect also: responsive projects are meant to be viewed on mobile devices, where the hardware ; software and bandwidth will be much lower than on your system. How will that behave in such a situation?

What is the resolution you are starting with (normally meant for desktop use? Did you optimize the videos so that they have been reduced to the resolution, audio and video quality which is exactly what is needed in Captivate or did you rescale in Captivate?