Linking animations not working

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November 7, 2021
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Hi All -

I'm running Indesign 17.0 on a MacBook Pro 2019.

I have two objects with set animations - one to disappear with a 30-second delay and then one to appear at 30-second.

I linked them together in the Timing panel so that both animations are set to begin at Page Load. However, they are still running linearly: An object disappears after 30 seconds > then i'm waiting 30 seconds for the other object to appear.

What am i missing?

Thanks!

-G.

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Laubender

Community Expert

Hi,

a screenshot of the Timing panel would perhaps help when the two objects are selected.
Also a screenshots of the Animation panel for each of the two objects.

Justed tested this with InDesign 2022 on my Windows machine and I see no issue.

Thanks,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

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imgaryshap74Author

Inspiring

Thank you all for jumping in. I've got it set now through trial-and-error, and don't want to go back and to get those screenshots. The reason for the long length is that one object is a gif. i like it to play once and disappear and the last frame is a still jpg that appears at the same time. it's a cool effect that works well for me, but linking objects so they both start on page load seems to have stopped. thanks again.

JonathanArias

Legend

Have you tried grouping them?

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imgaryshap74Author

Inspiring

Yeah. That's what i did. I grouped them and it still plays linearly.

I got it to work by messing with the timings of the delay, but the grouping did not work at all. Made no difference if grouping was activated or not, which tells me I either have something else set incorrectly that I'm unaware of, or it's a bug in the latest update.

BobLevine

Community Expert

30 seconds is a really long time but can we back up for a moment? A few screenshots of the animation and timing panel might help us help you. There is nothing intuitive about these tools and they have received virtually no updates since being introduced more than a decade ago.