CP8 Question: If I pause an embedded video, how do I get it to pause the slide as well?

[simonb27458783]

I have a slide with an embedded MP4 on it. The video controls show but I'm not displaying the slide controls.

What I need to happen is when the user pauses the video using the video controls, the slide also pauses at the same time. Then when the user hits play, the slide continues.

The reason for this is that at the end of the slide, 2 buttons appear to restart the project or continue. But if the user pauses the video using the video controls, the buttons appear too early.

Any help would be HUGELY appreciated. Thanks

[RodWard · Accepted solution]

When you inserted the video you may have noticed Captivate allows two types of display.

Sounds like you should be using SLIDE video and not EVENT video.  Then pausing the slide would also pause the video and vice versa.

[simonb27458783]

Hi. Thanks for your response.

I've now tried adding the video as a slide video rather than an event. I can now pause the slide and video at the same time but it's thrown up another problem!

When I originally made the video (also in Captivate) I used text-to-speech as a placeholder. That was then replaced with proper voiceover. Now, when I import the video as a slide video into my main Captivate project, it plays the text-to-speech rather than the proper voiceover

Any ideas?

[RodWard]

The audio voiceover should be part of the video file.  Are you certain you inserted the correct version of your video?  Try playing the same video file in a normal browser.  What audio do you hear then?

[simonb27458783]

The video plays with the voice over and is definitely the right version, that's why I'm so confused I've even deleted all references to text-to-speech from the original video file and re-published it, but it's still there! Very strange

[RodWard]

Try inserting the same video into a new blank project file. If you cannot here the wrong audio there then my guess would be that your current project file is somehow playing the TTS audio from some other object.  Go into the Library, find the TTS clip and delete it.

[simonb27458783]

All sorted now! It turns out it was conflicting with previous versions of the video that I had imported. I had removed all relating audio clips from the library but hadn't seen the previous video files much further down in the library.

Thank you for your help, it's very much appreciated.

[melissab85424988]

Thank you RodWard​! After researching for days thinking surely someone else has experienced this issue yet finding no answers online you have made my day!