Adobe Captivate 8

[mariel84744084]

Hi. I'm new to Captivate. I seem to have a full motion slide automatically inserted into my project. It would actually work very well in my project but only if I could delay the start of the slide motion. Is this possible and if so, how please?​

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[Paul Wilson CTDP]

Can you explain what you mean by a full motion slide?

[Lilybiri]

OP means a FMR slide (Full Motion Recording) which is created automatically when capturing a software simulation for actions that cannot be captured in static slides: mouse movements, dragging... It has a camera icon in the Filmstrip and the slide Timeline looks like this:

A FMR slide will not always be showing up when publishing to HTML5 because they are Flash-based movie slides. I always replace it by a cpvc-slide for that reason.

I don't understand this question: what is meant by 'start of the slide motion'. This needs better explanation, maybe screenshots. Which 'motion' has bee recorded, and what delay is wanted? Maybe it is just sufficient to increase the duration of the slide previous to the FMR slide?

[mariel84744084]

See this screenshot below. I want the screen to stay static until I can display certain explanatory objects for a few seconds and then for the screen motion to start. Ideally I would like that red line below to start at 5 seconds in. Is that possible?

[Lilybiri]

Keep the video slide separate, you can have a slide before and after that video slide. The user doesn't have to see there are several slides, because the transition can be seamlessly.

Moreover, as I mentioned before, if you want to publish to HTML5, I strongly recommend to replace the FMR by a cpvc slide. Video Demo has a dedicated video editor, where you can add static objects.

Video Demo Timeline demystified (cpvc-project) - Captivate blog