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I've inserted .mp3 audio onto my slides, and each slide has a bookmark at the end of the timeline with an interaction to go to the next slide.
So from the user's perspective, slide one plays, then immediately loads slide two, etc. No pausing. No intervention from the user.
But. The first 2-3 words of each slide begin to play again at the end before it changes to the next slide.
I've added an additional interaction to Stop Media, and I've extended the slide time out beyond the duration of the audio. The Loop checkbox for the audio is NOT selected. Still does it.
Any thoughts on how I can fix this?
I actually considered that because I came upon one of your old posts when I was searching for a solution before I posted this.
And I just figured out what's causing it. It's definitely the transition to the next slide. I tested it on several - once I removed the slide transition from the interaction, the audio behaved properly.
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Can be a new bug of course, but could you try the old workaround which I use since eons for older versions: leave a small gap before and after the audio timeline. Never cut the 'dirty silence' within the audio clip at its start and end completely as well. Here is a screenshot of the 'gaps' in version CP2019:
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I actually considered that because I came upon one of your old posts when I was searching for a solution before I posted this.
And I just figured out what's causing it. It's definitely the transition to the next slide. I tested it on several - once I removed the slide transition from the interaction, the audio behaved properly.
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Should I report this as a bug??
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To need a workaround with the bookmark (have described this already in a blog post) is IMO weird after more than two decades of automatic transition to the next slide. One of my first requests was to be able to choose whether there is a pause or not. You do not imitate PPT (which is meant to be used with a presenter) or concurrents when you used to be the best tool. I am not amazed that this happens due to the bookmark at the end. Did you already try to move that bookmark more to the left, even little bit within the audio timeline? This is inspired to my understanding that - depending on clip duration - there may be a light loss of synchronisation because the audio clip needs to be loaded. That also happens in previous versions, hence the gap workaround. The bookmarks as frame event trigger do have a lot of quirks... always difficult to describe them and enter as bug. Since november I am busy trying to understand those bookmarks (navigation is also buggy) but it is very frustrating due to all the limitations and lack of exposed system variables. In 6 months I had more crashes and lost projects than in two decades using Captivate Classic.
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Sure, report it. Did you already install 12.3 and check out if the issue is still there?
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Thanks @Lilybiri .
@adaptable_Symphony5E0D Please update to 12.3, as Lieve suggested, and let us know.
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@Lilybiri and @Saurav_Ghosh I've updated to 12.3, and I swear I'm losing my mind. I can't find where to add a slide transition. I thought it was under Interactions, but now when I do a new trigger on Slide Enter, I don't see Transitions...
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Hi @adaptable_Symphony5E0D , thanks for your response.
Before answering your question, can you please confirm the following?
To clarify, if you're trying to add a transition to the first slide, Captivate 12.3 doesn't support it. You may request this feature on the User Voice.
However, you can add a Slide exit trigger to the first slide. Then, select the Action Go to next slide/Go to slide, and add a transition to that slide. This means you can add transitions to any slide other than the first slide.
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Hello, @Saurav_Ghosh - I have been working on slides 2-4 to attempt to add a transition. The screenshot is from Slide 4.
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@Saurav_Ghosh already answered your question. I just want to pop in because slide transitions are typical for presentations, but not really for eLearning courses, except in some situations. Prefer to add transitions to objects, in synchronisation with narration. A presentation is normally meant to be controlled by a presenter, an eLearning course needs to be controlled by a learner. To me that is a big difference.
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@Lilybiri I completely agree about the use of transitions. I typically avoid them in eLearning. In part, I wanted to play with the new functionality and just see it in action. And in part, I was using a long slide for the first time with this audience about 3 slides in where the user would need to scroll down a conversation, so I wanted to give the impression of scrolling from slide 1 to slide 2 and from slide 2 to slide 3. I was curious from a user perspective if it would make the scrolling more natural or comfortable for the user.
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Sure, understand. Interesting experiment, would like to hear about the result. You have one slide with vertical scrolling and I wonder how a transition will be working.