Animations from PowerPoint not publishing with Captivate 8

Report · Apr 07, 2016

I have imported my presentation from PowerPoint 2010 into Captivate 8. When I preview the project, all of the animations work. When I go to publish in an HTML5 version none of the animations work, which is basically all of my text because they come in with an animation created in PowerPoint. (all my animations were done in PowerPoint, anything done in Captivate though is working fine) I also have a few slides that I added with Captivate that are interactive..those work fine. So when I want to publish this e-learning to the internet I can't because it doesn't show half of my content. I can publish as a video, the animations seem to copy over this way, but then I can't use the interactive slides. Is there a step I'm missing to get the animations to work in a published version with Captivate 8? Again, they do work when I go to preview and then select project. But they do not work if I preview in HTML5 or if I publish as HTML. If anyone has any insight that would be great!

Report · Apr 07, 2016

When you publish a PPT project to HTML5 all the slides end up being converted to static background images.

Your animations in PPT will be of no use if your target is HTML5 or mobile devices.

If animated text is very important to you, then you would be better off ditching the PPT altogether and building from scratch in Captivate.

Report · Apr 08, 2016

Please, want to add my voice to Rod's: do not use PPT as start for HTML output: you will lose most animations. A workaround could be to capture the animated slides with the Video Demo recorder and insert them as cpvc-slides. CPVC is the extension of a Video Demo file.